WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Amazon.com relies on extensive worker surveillance to boost employee output and potentially limit unionization efforts around the United States, says a research paper issued on Monday by the Open Markets Institute. The Washington-based r... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As a partial shutdown of the U.S. government stretched into its sixth day, the agency that oversees the federal workforce offered advice on staving off creditors to the estimated 800,000 employees who could be affected by a lapse in pay.... More »
(Reuters) – A union-backed bank employee rights group is complaining after Wells Fargo & Co declined to meet with members last week, according to a letter sent to Chief Executive Tim Sloan viewed exclusively by Reuters. Members of the group, Committee for Bett... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday signed three executive orders designed to make it easier to fire federal government workers and to crack down on the unions that represent them, drawing immediate criticism from a group representing feder... More »
SAYANOGORSK, Russia (Reuters) – Workers at one of Russia’s biggest aluminum smelters say their Siberian town is doomed unless Moscow mitigates U.S. sanctions against aluminum giant Rusal, a predicament mirrored across the company’s sprawling operations. Trappe... More »
Newly hired employees take a break from training to pose for a group photo at the chain’s soon-to-open 54th outlet in Oakland, California ,U.S., January 24, 2018. REUTERS/Ann Saphir OAKLAND, Calif./CANTON, N.Y./WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The kind of pay raises for... More »
The U.S. Capitol is lit during the second day of a shutdown of the federal government in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (Reuters) – Thousands of federal workers faced anxiety about the status of their jobs and paychecks after U.S. S... More »
FILE PHOTO: An Apple logo is seen in a store in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. tax overhaul is a boon to Silicon Valley technology companies like Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc (GOO... More »
Workers of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and their relatives demonstrate at the entrance to the company’s facility in Ashdod, Israel December 17, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Workers at Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (TEVA.TA) prote... More »
Swiss bank UBS (UBSG.S) could shed almost 30,000 workers in the years ahead due to technological advances in the banking industry, Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said in a magazine interview. More »
The European Commission wants more social protection and rights for casual workers, such as those in the "gig economy", and others with non-standard contracts to try to tackle growing social inequality. More »
The corporate logo of financial firm Morgan Stanley is pictured on the company’s world headquarters in New York, U.S. April 17, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Morgan Stanley, the biggest U.S. brokerage by head count, told brokers Tuesday that it is standing d... More »
China’s Premier Li Keqiang gestures during a news conference after the closing ceremony of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj China needs to relocate nearly 1 million... More »
Workers walk in the rain at the Canary Wharf business district in London November 11, 2013. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh More than a quarter of employers in Britain say staff members from other European Union countries have considered leaving their firms or the country... More »
CHICAGO U.S. health and safety officials issued new guidelines on Friday to help protect workers from exposure to Zika, a mosquito-borne and sexually-transmitted virus that causes the birth defect microcephaly and other neurological disorders. The new rules, i... More »
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that more than 80 calls were made to ambulances by Sports Direct employees at its headquarters in Derbyshire for “life-threatening illnesses”. The figures, which came from a Freedom of... More »
