Workers are set to hold onto the upper hand they gained over the past two years as more states start requiring pay disclosures on job postings.
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Remote workers are increasingly surveilled, as manager paranoia surges
Critics call it bossware.
Georgia ranks among worst states for workers
State lawmakers and business boosters love to tout Georgia’s reputation as a great place to do business. But, according to Oxfam America, it’s a terrible place to work.
Most workers say they’re “quiet quitting”
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America’s labor market is on fire
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U.S. workplace homicides decline faster than overall murders
Number of workplace homicides in the U.S.
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Child care subsidies would send 1.2 million women into the workforce, new paper finds
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America’s workers are up for grabs
Percentage of U.S. employees who say they experienced stress or worry during “a lot” of the previous day
Workers with criminal records are getting a chance
Percentage of Indeed job listings that advertise “fair chance” hiring
Microsoft reaches neutrality pact with labor union
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Exclusive: Many tech workers would quit if employer recorded them
Roughly half of tech employees who today say they are not monitored at work indicated they would resign rather than be subject to facial recognition or having their employer record audio or video of them, according to results of a new Morning Consult poll, shared exclusively with Axios.
Twin Cities Starbucks workers join national labor push
Baristas at a fourth Twin Cities Starbucks store will vote on whether to form a union beginning Tuesday.
Disabled workers are struggling to get jobs, even in a labor shortage
Unemployment rates for people with
and without a disability
Workers’ leverage is here to stay
American workers have the upper hand over their employers right now — and there are tentative signs it could last, even as economic storm clouds gather.
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