Category: WORKPLACE VIOLENCE

The face coverings mandate at the retail giants goes into effect on July 20. July 15, 2020, 4:42 PM4 min read Walmart and Sam’s Club announced Wednesday that they will start requiring all customers to wear face coverings when shopping at its stores as the coronavirus pandemic rages in the U.S. “While we’re certainly not…

Violence at work ‘Extreme inequality was the preexisting condition’: How COVID-19 widened America’s wealth gap

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The novel coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated income inequality, experts say, stretching the racial wealth gap in the United States and making the richest wealthier while leaving many of the poorest without jobs. As the COVID-19 pandemic overtook the U.S., it brought with it an unprecedented financial crisis and unemployment rates at their highest levels…

Violence at work Virus, Floyd death merge in brutal blow to Black well-being

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Doctors have known it for a long time, well before the resounding cries of “Black Lives Matter”: Black people suffer disproportionately. They face countless challenges to good health, among them food, transportation and income. The stress of living with racism has very real, physical effects. And they are especially prone to diabetes, hypertension and other…

Violence at work Editorial Roundup: US

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Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ——— July 14 The New York Times on extending unemployment benefits in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic: Unemployment benefits provide people who lose jobs with a little help for a little while. The money is not really enough to live on, by design:…

Violence at work Jewish leaders condemn ‘hurtful’ words by Nick Cannon

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Nick Cannon apologized to the Jewish community late Wednesday for his “hurtful and divisive” words, a day after ViacomCBS severed ties with him for the remarks made on a podcast. The Anti-Defamation league and some Jewish leaders had condemned what they called anti-Semitic theories expressed by Cannon and demanded the apology. “First and foremost I…

Violence at work Law enforcement struggles with policing in reckoning moment

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WASHINGTON — As calls for police reform swell across America, officers say they feel caught in the middle: vilified by the left as violent racists, fatally ambushed by extremists on the right seeking to sow discord and scapegoated by lawmakers who share responsibility for the state of the criminal justice system. The Associated Press spoke…

Violence at work Lebanon’s plea to skeptical expats: Come visit, bring cash

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BEIRUT — With Beirut’s airport partially reopening from a three-month virus shutdown, the government is hoping thousands of Lebanese expatriates will return for the summer — and bring dollars desperately needed to prop up the crashing economy. But Lebanon’s far-flung diaspora, renowned as entrepreneurs who for years sent their cash home, may no longer be…

Violence at work US sanctions Chinese companies over Muslim abuse complaints

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The U.S. government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China’s Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang, including three identified in investigations by The Associated PressBy JOE McDONALD AP Business WriterJuly 22, 2020, 3:53 AM5 min readBEIJING — China said Tuesday it would take unspecified “necessary measures”…

Violence at work Turkey calls on EU to be ‘honest’ in dispute with members

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