Category: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS

Presidential candidate Andrew Yang speaks during the AFL-CIOs first-ever Presidential Summit in Philadelphia.Preston Ehrler | SOPA Images/LightRocket | Getty ImagesStaffers for Andrew Yang announced Thursday that they have joined the Campaign Workers Guild, the most recent campaign unionization effort among the 2020 Democratic candidates for president.”Today marks a victory not only for our workers, but…

Jordanian entrepreneur Nour Al Hassan is founder and CEO of Ureed, a digital editorial marketplace that connects businesses across the globe with freelance linguists in the Arab world.PrezLabThe mounting tension between the U.S. and Middle East adds to the long list of challenges citizens there are facing. Lack of jobs is another. This is especially…

Google’s former top diplomat now blames the company’s “disengaged” founders and earnings-driven leadership for Google’s departure from its core value, “Don’t be evil.”Ross LaJeunesse, who joined Google in 2008 and was head of international relations until last May, according to his LinkedIn profile, said in a Medium post Thursday that Google has changed into a…

Hero Images | Getty ImagesData breaches regularly generate news headlines, reinforcing the popular image of foreign hackers piercing the defenses of companies and organizations to steal valuable information. In reality, most data thefts are far more mundane: Rather than being a continent away, the thieves are likely to be in a cubicle down the hall,…

Shoppers walk past an empty commercial unit in the central market square of Boston, England, Nov. 8, 2019.Elliot Smith | CNBCBOSTON, England — With Britain facing its second general election since the historic vote to leave the European Union in June 2016, voters in the nation’s most pro-Brexit town are even more angry and disillusioned…

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Saturday rejected the suggestion that the Trump administration is weaponizing the dollar through its trade-restricting policies with other countries.”Let me be clear: we are not weaponizing the U.S. dollar,” Mnuchin told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the Doha Forum in Qatar. “If anything I would say the opposite; I take…

The Chinese ambassador to the U.K., Liu Xiaoming, has met with British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to urge the U.K to “stop condoning extreme, violent offences,” a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in London has told CNBC.This comes as the British government has lashed out at China over its alleged torture of a former worker at the…

Aytac Unal | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesFour former Google employees who were fired days before Thanksgiving plan to file unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, the group wrote Tuesday.The former employees, dubbed the “Thanksgiving Four,” announced their plans to file charges in a Medium post. Google has said it fired…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during signing ceremony committing Google to help expand information technology education at El Centro College in Dallas, Texas, October 3, 2019.Brandon Wade | ReutersDemocratic congressional leaders from the Hispanic, Black and Asian Pacific American caucuses scolded Google CEO Sundar Pichai for the recent hiring of a former Trump administration official…

For years, workers have been told to keep politics out of the workplace, but these days that can seem unavoidable.According to a recent survey from the Society for Human Resource Management, 42% of U.S. employees say they have personally experienced, and 44% say they have witnessed, political disagreements at work.Roughly 34% of respondents told SHRM…