Everybody relax. It’s still safe to say “bald” in the workplace. News reports to the contrary notwithstanding, a UK employment tribunal didn’t hold last week that using the word is sexual harassment.
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Vegas Strip resort surprises 5,400 workers with $5K bonuses
Joyous bedlam erupted Wednesday at an employee appreciation and awards buffet at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas when the resort chief executive announced that all 5,400 people who work there will receive a $5,000 bonus.
Amazon’s new labor issue: What to do with too many workers
After years of intense hiring, Amazon now says its warehouses are overstaffed
Why Does the Tech Workforce Lean Left?
Why are so many employees of major technology companies so left-wing, in particular so invested in woke ideology?
Amazon workers vote against unionization in New York
The vote comes just weeks after the first successful unionization vote at an Amazon warehouse in the United States
Amazon and Starbucks union workers could be invited to White House
The offer would amount to a significant pro-labor gesture
How Severed Is Your Workplace Personality?
Many of the world’s employees have been separated from their workplace for a large chunk of the past two pandemic-disrupted years, and it seems most of us aren’t too keen to go back.
‘Zero regrets.’ Six months after quitting, these workers are thriving.
Workers who joined the ‘Great Resignation’ six months ago tell me they’re mostly better off emotionally and mentally, if not financially.
Unions say they reduce the spread of coronavirus. They might be right.
Unionized nursing homes were far safer for workers and residents, our research finds, with lower rates of covid-19 cases and deaths.
Workers Are Winning the Return-to-Office War Because They’re Right
The masks are coming off. Restaurants are filling up. International travel is resuming. But one thing is missing from this picture of returning normality: the rows of office workers bent over their desks.
Your next sexual harassment training could be in virtual reality
Some say the technology is game-changing. Others worry it could trigger survivors and do little to change bad behavior.
New Title IX rules set to assert rights of transgender students
Discrimination against transgender students would be a violation of federal civil rights law under proposed regulations the Education Department is expected to finalize in the coming weeks.
Starbucks Needs to Reward Its Workers More
Howard Schultz’s coffee has already gone cold with investors.
Worker-led win at Amazon warehouse could provide new labor playbook
The unionization of a Staten Island facility at one of the country’s biggest employers shows how workers are emerging from pandemic with new tactics and energy
Amazon union win could usher in a new wave of scrutiny of its labor practices
Happy Monday! The University of North Carolina isn’t the only great school that’s beaten Duke in epic tournament fashion, you know.
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