Category: News

September 20, 2023

The EU Platform Workers Directive would reclassify drivers and couriers working for Uber and similar companies as employees, giving them full working rights. Currently, the majority of platform workers in the EU are classified as self-employed, even though they have […]

September 19, 2023

Staff at Brook House immigration detention centre near Gatwick Airport were found to have subjected detainees to degrading treatment, including forcibly moving people while they were naked, and speaking to migrants using racist, homophobic and derogatory language. Staff often showed […]

September 18, 2023

Cortese said the bill was prompted by a 2021 shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) railyard in San Jose that killed 10 people, including the shooter. An independent investigator found the transportation authority didn’t have prior knowledge […]

September 13, 2023

In a recent case, a student filed a complaint alleging that her professor showed racial bias against her, routinely demeaned and embarrassed her in front of her classmates, and failed to offer the required disability accommodations for her dyslexia. The […]

September 12, 2023

The FMLA provides eligible employees the right to take up to 12 work weeks of job-protected leave for a qualifying reason, a DOL guidance explains. For example, an eligible employee who works 32 hours a week may use up to […]

August 15, 2023

In 2020, Starbucks linked some parts of executive compensation to the fulfillment of its DEI goals. In March 2022, the NCPPR — through the American Civil Rights Project, a conservative law firm — demanded Starbucks retract its DEI proposals, according […]

August 11, 2023

Met chief commissioner Mark Rowley, with the support of the chief constables of three of the other largest police forces in England and Wales, told the Home Office that the present system was a “legalistic, bureaucratic and expensive minefield” that […]

July 25, 2023

The owners and operators of Che Garibaldi – operator of Taqueria Garibaldi – have been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 restaurant employees after they allegedly tapped the services of a person identified as a […]

July 21, 2023

More than 100 former and current employees of the fast-food chain told the BBC that they had been subject to sexual harassment, racism and homophobia. Many of the staff were young and claimed that management ignored complaints of groping and […]

July 20, 2023

Homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 but a ban continued in the armed forces until 2000, but a report into the treatment of gay people recommended they be given a financial reward and that the prime minister should […]

July 18, 2023

An investigation by the BBC found that McDonald’s staff, many of them young, were regularly groped and sexually harassed and that management often turned a blind eye. McDonald’s “deeply apologised” and said it had fallen short after saying in February […]

July 12, 2023

COBRA allows workers to continue to receive health benefits for a limited time after experiencing a qualifying event at their company, such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours, job transition, death, divorce and other life events. […]

June 26, 2023

A California court recently ruled in favor of the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR), the agency responsible for the human resource management of state employees, including issues regarding salaries, benefits, job classifications, training, and recruitment. The case arose from […]

June 23, 2023

As U.S. employers struggle to find workers with the competencies and skills they need, HR departments are beginning to adopt skills-based hiring practices, Mark Smith, SHRM’s director of HR thought leadership, told members of the House Committee on Education and […]

June 14, 2023

Last week, Google told employees in a company-wide email that new measures would be taken to update its hybrid work policy in an effort to strengthen its in-office presence. The updates included stricter measures to hold employees accountable, such as […]

June 13, 2023

The research also found that workers’ confidence in the UK job market has plummeted, bucking an upward trend on the continent. Gallup’s 2023 research revealed that the UK remains one of the least engaged workforces in Europe, ranking 33 out […]

June 9, 2023

Its latest workforce survey revealed that almost 9% of the teaching workforce, equivalent to around 40,000 teachers, left state schools last year. On top of that, 4,000 teachers retired. The number of unfilled teaching vacancies is also at a record […]

June 5, 2023

Alicia Torres, 47, pleaded guilty to wire fraud last week in a scheme that resulted in her stealing over half a million dollars from her former employer, Wegmans. For nearly nine years, Torres processed about 350 fraudulent credit card refunds […]

May 30, 2023

The contracts guarantee six weeks’ leave in the summer, and two weeks off at both Easter and Christmas, without affecting other benefits they receive, including private medical insurance and life assurance. Amazon piloted the contracts at three sites following employee […]

May 22, 2023

South Lanarkshire Council posted the spreadsheet online in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request which asked for details of staff pay grades. The spreadsheet was only supposed to include anonymised employee data, but details on a second page […]