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Category: Labor and Jobs
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High-Profile Art Couple Offers Worst Job Ever
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BASF to Cut 2,600 Jobs After a Year of High Energy Costs
The New York Times – Business:The German chemical giant blamed a drop in profits on stubbornly high natural gas prices and shifting global demand.
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Judge Scales Back Ruling Against Starbucks in Union Fight
The New York Times – Business:After barring Starbucks from firing any U.S.-based worker over labor activity, a federal judge said he had erred and limited the action to one store.
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Labor Board Curbs Gag Rules in Severance Agreements
The New York Times – Business:The National Labor Relations Board said severance pacts requiring confidentiality and nondisparagement violated a law on collective worker activity.
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Trial Run of 4-Day Workweek Wins Converts
The New York Times – Business: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
The New York Times – Business: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?
The New York Times – Business: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
The New York Times – Business: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
The New York Times – Business: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
The New York Times – Sports: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
The New York Times – Fashion & Style: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
The New York Times – Business:Workers backing a push for better wages and working conditions were among those illegally laid off, members told the National Labor Relations Board.