The National Labor Relations Board said severance pacts requiring confidentiality and nondisparagement violated a law on collective worker activity.
Category: Labor and Jobs
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Trial Run of 4-Day Workweek Wins Converts
Of 61 British companies that participated in a pilot program, 56 said they would continue. Both employers and employees reported benefits.
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Inside Taiwanese Chip Giant, a U.S. Expansion Stokes Tensions
Employee doubts are rising about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s $40 billion investment in an Arizona factory.
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Do I Have to Smell My Co-Worker?
Either way, saying something about a colleague’s overwhelming perfume, or enduring it, is a delicate situation.
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Judge Bans Starbucks From Firing Union Supporters
A nationwide injunction restrains the company from dismissing labor organizers and could help reinstate ousted workers more quickly.
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Packer Sanitation Fined for Illegally Employing More Than 100 Children, Labor Officials Say
Packers Sanitation Services Inc. paid a $1.5 million penalty this week for employing children as young as 13 in dangerous jobs at meat-processing plants.
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Biden Labor Secretary to Depart to Run N.H.L. Players Union
Martin J. Walsh, a former mayor of Boston, was regarded as an unusually visible labor secretary.
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Young Tech Workers Are Turning to TikTok to Cope With Layoffs
Some workers are using the platform to share stories about job cuts, give advice and search for new roles.
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Tesla Fired Buffalo Workers Seeking to Organize, Union Says
Workers backing a push for better wages and working conditions were among those illegally laid off, members told the National Labor Relations Board.
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Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs
Operations in Carlsbad, Calif., Austin, Texas, and Portland, Ore., will cease and the retailer will aim to relocate those workers, including to its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark.
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Tesla Workers in Buffalo Begin Union Drive
If successful, the workers who help develop Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assistance system would be the first group at the company to organize.
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Investors Await the Market Impact from Tuesday’s C.P.I. Report
Tuesday’s Consumer Price Index data could hold big clues about the Federal Reserve’s future policy moves.