Costco raises minimum wage to $17 an hour

Oct 28, 2021

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This week Costco raised its starting wage for hourly store workers in the US for the second time this year as more businesses hike pay and try to retain workers amid the labor and staffing shortage. Costco informed employees last week that it would increase the minimum wage from $16 to $17 an hour ...

High numbers of covid cases reported among meatpacking workers: at least 269 dead, 59,000 infected

Oct 28, 2021

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. Numbers show that at least 59,000 meatpacking workers have fallen ill with covid-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry in 2020. According to a US House report released on Wednesday, these numbers are three times higher than the ones calculated previously. With workers s ...

Facebook instructs employees to preserve documents since 2016

Oct 28, 2021

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Facebook sent out an internal memo to all its employees asking them to maintain documents for all forms of communications that occurred since 2016. This was sent in light of the recent and extremely public investigations conducted on Facebook regarding their involvement in various world events. ...

Illinois residents who were overpaid unemployment benefits may get to keep it

Oct 28, 2021

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Almost 76,000 Illinois residents received $123 million in excess regular unemployment benefits, according to the latest developments, these residents can keep the money unless they've already repaid it. ...

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