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Not long after President Trump took office in January, staff at CentroNia bilingual preschool began rehearsing what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials came to the door.…
A majority of those expecting a holiday bonus this year are planning to check out once the check clears. According to a recent survey of 2,000 American workers by AI job application…
The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination…
How ER Inspired These Healthcare Professionals ER aired from 1994 to 2009, and legions of viewers tuned in every Thursday night religiously for the countless dramas in and out of the…
To Trina Spear, cofounder and CEO of medical apparel brand Figs, change for the healthcare industry has to start with a focus on healthcare workers. “We believe if you serve the provider,…
Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced…
MILAN — La Perla is headed to greener pastures under the new owner, American industrial entrepreneur Peter Kern, the former chief executive officer of Expedia. Italian trade unions Filctem…
Flock, the automatic license plate reader and AI-powered camera company, uses overseas workers from Upwork to train its machine learning algorithms, with training material telling workers…
Twelve migrant workers were arrested for suspected drug-related offences during a multi-agency raid at a Woodlands dormitory on Thursday, November 27. The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB)…
A growing number of Amazon employees have signed onto an open letter issuing some dire warnings about the company’s sprint toward AI. The letter, signed by more than 1,000 workers and…
Republicans have proposed new legislation that would make hiring illegal immigrants an unfair labor practice, giving the federal government a new avenue to punish businesses that recruit…
A new study from MIT that shows that AI might be poised to replace a lot more jobs than what initial estimates might predict. According to researchers, a hidden mass of data reveals that…
Over 1,000 Amazon employees have anonymously signed an open letter warning that the company’s allegedly “all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development” could cause “staggering…
We have reached the moment white collar workers have feared for months. Has AI finally come for my job? Companies like Salesforce claim they need fewer human employees to do the work AI…
Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate. Mills was traveling…
Do your office, inbox, and calendar feel like a ghost town on Friday afternoons? You’re not alone. I’m a labor economist who studies how technology and organizational change affect…
Like clockwork, 5 p.m. on a Sunday, flashes of unread emails and notifications for tomorrow’s upcoming meetings start. Your shoulders tense, your stomach knots. You have a case of the…
It’s not just executives or knowledge workers in offices who are using AI. It’s being adopted in fields like healthcare, retail, hospitality, and food services, too. But frontline workers…
AI was supposed to make our lives easier: automating tedious tasks, streamlining communication, and freeing up time for creative thinking. But what if the very tool meant to increase…
It’s open enrollment season again—that period between October and November when workers must reacquaint themselves with “deductibles,” “copays,” and “premiums.” Many would rather wait at…
Unionised Starbucks baristas are launching a wave of walkouts on Thursday (Nov 13), a work stoppage they say could grow to become their biggest strike to date. Workers United, which…
President Trump said Monday that he will abide by a provision in the Senate agreement to reopen the government that requires him to rehire the federal workers he fired during the…
Senate Democrats on Friday blocked a bill to pay federal workers who've gone without compensation during the 38-day government shutdown, after Republicans rejected Democrats' offer to…
In a new holiday ad for Starbucks, set to the tune of I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers, two adorable animated figures traipse across Starbucks’s red holiday cups to reunite.…
