Category: Labor and Jobs

Labor Department Finds 31 Children Cleaning Meatpacking Plants

Packers Sanitation Services, a food safety contractor, hired children as young as 13 to clean dangerous equipment on overnight shifts, the department said. Several suffered chemical burns.
Elon Musk Paints Bleak Picture in Email to Twitter Employees

In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more employees resigned.
Laid Off by Twitter, Then Tweeting About It

Tech companies that created more workplace transparency see their own tools used to critique them.
Tech’s Talent Wars Have Come Back to Bite It

Hiring the best, the brightest and the highest number of employees was a badge of honor at tech companies. Not anymore as layoffs surge.
Meta Lays Off More Than 11,000 Employees

The parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp reduced its work force by 13 percent and extended a hiring freeze through the first quarter of next year.
CUNY Graduates With Tech Degrees Struggle to Land Tech Jobs

Students at the City University of New York are increasingly graduating with degrees in technology. A new report details the obstacles they face in landing jobs.
Meta Is Said to Plan Significant Job Cuts This Week

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, said last month that many “teams will stay flat or shrink over the next year” as his company faces economic challenges.
Ela Bhatt, Advocate for Women Workers in India, Dies at 89

The cooperative she founded has helped millions of women who had never before had a safety net. “They were,” she said, “the poorest among the poor.”
U.S. Added 261,000 Jobs in Strong Showing

Job growth is slowing but remains stronger than comfortable for the Federal Reserve, which is trying to tame high inflation.
Confusion and Frustration Reign as Elon Musk Cuts Half of Twitter’s Staff

The layoffs hit across many divisions, including the engineering and machine learning units, the teams that manage content moderation, and the sales and advertising departments.
Biden Spins His Economic Record Ahead of Elections

The president’s recent comments on Social Security, the deficit and economic growth claim credit where it is not always due.
Employers added 261,000 jobs in October, a sign that the economy is resilient.