workplace health

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Today’s News & Commentary—May 24, 2022

In today’s News & Commentary, TIME Magazine workers call off threat to strike; Activision-Blizzard workers vote to unionize; Los Angeles

4 min read 2022-05-05 19:00:00

Candace Dixon could barely climb the stairs. After lifting nearly 100,000 items in two months of working with robots at an Amazon fulfillment center,

3 min read 2022-04-29 01:28:19

Earlier this week, Modern Shipper wrote that the Amazon Labor Union’s (ALU) victory at an Amazon fulfillment center on Staten Island had the

2 min read 2022-04-21 21:59:00

The State of Arizona has been so deficient in promulgating and enforcing worker safety rules that the federal government might revoke the State’s

3 min read 2022-03-30 21:30:00

Strategies for returning employees to offices continue to evolve due to the emergence of new COVID-19 variants and changes in government regulations.

4 min read 2022-03-30 19:00:00

The blurring of the boundaries between work and life has been an issue plaguing workplaces for years. Even before the pandemic, digital technologies

2 min read 2022-03-22 21:12:55

Following months of litigation in front of the NLRB, Google has settled its case with four former Google engineers over claims it fired them for

4 min read 2022-03-14 19:00:00

The Current Overtime Threshold for Farmworkers On January 28, 2022, the New York Farm Laborer Wage Board made a landmark decision to lower the

4 min read 2022-03-08 20:00:00

Not very often do events in Canada make global headlines. The recent protest convoy that occupied Ottawa for several weeks in February and shut

5 min read 2022-02-14 21:42:38

Many workers are stressed out. Symphonie/The Image Bank via Getty Images by Patricia L. Haynes, University of Arizona COVID-19 has inflicted a

5 min read 2022-02-09 21:00:00

On March 30, 2020, after complaining to management about the lack of personal protective equipment and distancing measures designed to ensure health

5 min read 2022-02-09 21:00:00

On March 30, 2020, after complaining to management about the lack of personal protective equipment and distancing measures designed to ensure health

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Amazon announced yesterday that due to a competitive labor market, it will double its cap on salaries for corporate employees, raising the highest

3 min read 2022-01-25 22:59:00

The National Labor Relations Board Region 13 office announced a settlement yesterday that marks the beginning of implementation of General Counsel

4 min read 2022-01-19 21:00:00

In staying OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard, six U.S. Supreme Court Justices joined an opinion that the ETS was likely beyond OSHA’s