United Airlines set to fire 600 unvaccinated employees
As the economy moves through a bumpy and slow recovery, United Airlines announced that it would terminate about 600 employees who have not complied with their vaccination requirements. The airline has also announced that 99% of their US workforce of 67,000 employees have been vaccinated- a sign tha ...
Fast Food Workers and Noncompete agreements
Most employers require their new hires to sign noncompete agreements. This agreement states that the employee is not allowed to work with a competitor for a month or more after leaving his current place of employment. There have been many debates regarding the signing of noncompetes, some suggestio ...
Amazon decides to settle
In April 2020 Amazon fired two of its employees, Emily Cunningham and Marin Costa who worked in the user experience department. The two women were fired for being vocal in their criticism of the tech giant's climate policies and warehouse working conditions. Later Cunningham and Costa filed a wrong ...
Restaurant industry struggles to recover
The National Restaurant Association reports that the restaurant industry is in worse shape than it was three months ago. The survey data released on Wednesday, 78% of restaurant operators say that they have seen a decline in customers in recent weeks due to concerns over the Delta variant. This dec ...
Ford to build new factories, 11,000 new jobs will be added
Ford and a partner company plan to build three major electric vehicle battery factories and an auto assembly plant by 2025 which would create an estimated 10,800 jobs. This would also shift the automaker's future in manufacturing towards the South. The factories are set to be built in Kentucky and ...
Emergency declared in New York amid staffing shortage prompted by vaccine resisters
Thousands of healthcare workers have likely refused a covid 19 vaccine in New York as a state requirement came into effect on Monday. This mass refusal is seen as a preview of the resistance that awaits the Biden administration's vaccine mandate across the country. This mass resistance to the vacci ...
WHO workers accused of sexual harassment in Congo
World Health Organization staffers who were positioned in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help with the Ebola crisis were accused of sexual harassment. A probe conducted by an independent organization confirmed that the claim had merit. ...
In-person Zoom takes over office spaces
Nick Kneer like many other Americans was excited to go back to work in his Ohio-based university library system, he works as a communications coordinator. He missed the jostling among his colleagues and was looking forward to it as office spaces open up in America. However, the reality was a little ...
Laid-off Hotel Employees Demand to be Re-hired
Angelo Carillo was one among the hundreds of employees who were laid off by their former employer, Columbia, Md., hotel. The Hotel belonged to David Costello, IMH Columbia LLC received more than $2 million as part of the federal pandemic fund to help with the payroll, however, according to the wor ...
Activision decides to pay $18 million to settle misconduct lawsuit
Video game company Activision Blizzard was in the news recently because of the lawsuit filed against them by The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Lawsuit stated that the company discriminated against pregnant employees and subjected several employees to sexual harassment incidents, ...
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