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A new survey shows an overwhelming number of American workers support the idea of a four-day workweek. Of the 4,000 full-time workers surveyed by Goodhire, a study evenly divided into each “working generation,” consisting of Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers, 83 percent were in favor of working four days per week. Gen Z was […]
New York City officials have passed a sweeping bill package that aims to improve working conditions for app-based food couriers. The New York Times reports the landmark legislation officially passed Thursday, just several weeks after an NYC delivery worker was filmed riding his bike through flooded streets during Hurricane Ida. The viral footage was met with outrage across the […]
COVID-19 regulations are still becoming an increasingly controversial point of contention. Yet a new study by the AP indicates the majority of Americans are in favor of mandatory vaccines. A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that 59 percent of remote workers support vaccine requirements in their own workplaces, compared to 47 percent of people who are currently working in […]
Things are looking up for a 20-year-old Oklahoma man who walks two-and-a-half hours—or eight miles—each way to get to his job as a cook at Buffalo Wild Wings. On a particularly hot day recently, Michael Lynn drove by Donte Franklin who was on his way to work and offered him a ride. “I was going down 12th […]
A viral video showing a woman in a monkey exhibit at the El Paso (Texas) Zoo has led to that woman being fired from her job. A 38-second clip from last weekend shows her under a waterfall feeding a pair of spider monkeys what are alleged to be Hot Cheetos. “These are primates we’re talking […]
The Salvation Army is being sued over its controversial rehabilitation program. According to CBS 5, a lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court last Friday argues the charitable organization should properly compensate those who were accepted into its six-month residential program. The Salvation Army website states its drug and alcohol treatment programs provide recovering addicts “housing, food, counseling, community, and […]
Are you a remote worker looking for some extra cash and a change of scenery? Then West Virginia has an offer for you. The state’s tourism office recently announced the launch of Ascend WV, a public-private program that promises $12,000 to those who are willing to relocate to the Mountain State. The initiative is specifically aimed at […]
It appears that Amazon employees in Alabama have voted not to unionize, marking the tech giant’s biggest win in its fight against attempts at labor organizing. Wall Street Journal reports that an initial count of 72 percent of the ballots showed that around 71 percent of workers in Bessemer, Alabama decided not to join the […]
A Georgia man was subjected to an enviable level of pettiness when he was given his long-awaited final payment of $915 from a former employee entirely in pennies, along with a note that simply read, “Fuck you,” HuffPost reports. Over 90,000 oil-soaked pennies were dumped in the driveway of Andreas Flaten earlier this month, four months after […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders is expected to visit the Bessemer area of Alabama—where workers at an Amazon fulfillment center will soon vote on whether to form a union—later this week. Given Sanders’ political history, specifically his passionate public support for a $15-per-hour federal minimum wage, many are excited by the former presidential candidate’s decision to pay […]
