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California Sues Uber And Lyft, Claims Companies Are Misclassifying Drivers As Contractors Instead Of Employees

California Sues Uber And Lyft, Claims Companies Are Misclassifying Drivers As Contractors Instead Of Employees

California’s government has now accused ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft of breaking a state law by misclassifying their drivers as contractors. As CNBC reports, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra claimed that the popular ride-hailing services denied operators essential employee protections and benefits — entitlements that operators would have access to if classified as employees. These […]

4y ago

Ohio Mom Wants Teenagers’ Employers To Be Required To Notify Parents If Kid Doesn’t Show Up For Work

Ohio Mom Wants Teenagers’ Employers To Be Required To Notify Parents If Kid Doesn’t Show Up For Work

A grieving Ohio mother has started an online petition to require employers of teenagers to notify a parent if their child fails to show up for work, Cleveland’s WEWS-TV reports. Last November, 17-year-old Damian Henning died in what police believe was a suicide. The Sandusky teenager had failed to show up for a shift at […]

4y ago

Elizabeth Warren Rolls Out ‘Fair Workweek’ Plan To Protect Workers With Flexible Schedules

Elizabeth Warren Rolls Out ‘Fair Workweek’ Plan To Protect Workers With Flexible Schedules

Elizabeth Warren has revealed her plan to protect workers whose job schedules are unpredictable with a “Fair Workweek” plan, HuffPost reports. Millions of workers in minimum wage or low-paying jobs, particularly in the hospitality industry — food service, hotels & accommodations, and similar jobs — are bedeviled by unpredictable scheduling. They may work a night […]

5y ago

New Jersey Country Club Sues Its Own Waiter For Spilling Wine On Customer’s Purse

New Jersey Country Club Sues Its Own Waiter For Spilling Wine On Customer’s Purse

A New Jersey country club has sued its own employee for spilling wine on a customer’s expensive handbag, a move the customer’s lawyer claims is simply a delay tactic meant to deflect responsibility for the damages. As NorthJersey.com reports, the whole affair began back in September 2018. Maryana Beyder was having a meal at the […]

5y ago

Two Thirds Of LGBTQ Employees Are In The Closet At Work, Says New Survey

Two Thirds Of LGBTQ Employees Are In The Closet At Work, Says New Survey

Two thirds of LGBTQ individuals with jobs remain in the closet at work, according to a new survey conducted by Verizon Media. What’s more, as Yahoo Finance reports, male LGBTQ employees are far less likely to be “out” at work than their female counterparts. Legalized Discrimination In The Workplace One of the principal reasons for […]

5y ago

‘Preferably Caucasian’ With A Good Tech Background: Company Under Fire For Racist Job Posting

‘Preferably Caucasian’ With A Good Tech Background: Company Under Fire For Racist Job Posting

A Virginia tech company is under fire after the discovery of what seems to be a blatantly racist, not to mention illegal, job listing posted on multiple job listing sites including LinkedIn, HuffPost reports. Cynet Systems, an IT staffing and recruiting company, posted a sales and business development role with a job description presented as […]

5y ago

Hampton Inn Employee Sues Company & His Boss For Trying To Force Him To Undergo An Exorcism

Hampton Inn Employee Sues Company & His Boss For Trying To Force Him To Undergo An Exorcism

A Kentucky man says he was forced out of his job at Hampton Inn because he refused to undergo an exorcism or answer invasive questions about religion from his boss. As Lexington’s WKYT-TV reports, Jason Fields had been a front-desk employee at the Hampton Inn in Hazard, in Eastern Kentucky. However, Fields claims in a […]

5y ago

U.S. Median Household Income Up By 1.8 Percent Last Year

U.S. Median Household Income Up By 1.8 Percent Last Year

Things appear to be looking up for the American middle class. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau released on Wednesday showed that the income of the median household in the United States appear to have rebounded from the damage caused by the 2008 financial crisis. Figures from the “Income and Poverty in the United States: […]

6y ago

Home Depot Apologizes And Gives Job Back To Black Employee Who Stood Up To Racist White Customer

Home Depot Apologizes And Gives Job Back To Black Employee Who Stood Up To Racist White Customer

Home Depot has apologized and rehired a man who was fired for standing up to a racist customer, Yahoo News is reporting. Maurice Rucker, 60, was working at the Albany, New York Home Depot store a week or two ago when he and a customer had a disagreement. The customer, who is white, brought his […]

6y ago

Americans Reveal Surprising Feelings About The Job Market In New Poll

Americans Reveal Surprising Feelings About The Job Market In New Poll

Americans appear to be extremely optimistic about the ability to find quality employment like never before, according to the Gallup polling organization. In reaching this conclusion, Gallup conducted telephone interviews (70 percent of whom were cell phone respondents) with a random sample of about 1,000 U.S. adults. In the just-released data which has a stated […]

6y ago

More Businesses Are Dropping Drug Testing For Pot – Else They Wouldn’t Be Able To Hire Anybody

More Businesses Are Dropping Drug Testing For Pot – Else They Wouldn’t Be Able To Hire Anybody

More and more businesses across the country are dropping marijuana from their drug-testing requirements, finding themselves unable to hire employees if they continue to insist that new hires be pot-free. As Crain’s Detroit Business reports, drug-testing has been part of the process for getting a job for many job seekers for decades. However, the Reagan […]

6y ago

Small Business Week 2018 Underscores Fact: 50 Percent Of Americans Own Or Work For Small Business

Small Business Week 2018 Underscores Fact: 50 Percent Of Americans Own Or Work For Small Business

This is Small Business Week, the annual week-long event led by the Small Business Administration (SBA) that celebrates the backbone of the U.S. economy. In fact, now is as good a time as any to note that almost half of working Americans own, or work for, small businesses. As Business reports, the number of small […]

6y ago

Who Are The Pot Smokers In Your Neighborhood? Ride-Sharing Employees And Tech Workers, Mostly

Who Are The Pot Smokers In Your Neighborhood? Ride-Sharing Employees And Tech Workers, Mostly

If you’re wondering which jobs attract the most post smokers, well, wonder no more: it’s employees in the ride-sharing app industry. This is according to new research from the team behind workplace app Blind, which asked its users to take a survey about drug use. Perhaps not surprisingly, the big users are employees of ride-sharing […]

6y ago

Juli Briskman: Woman Who Flipped Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade, Got Fired, Sues Her Old Employer

Juli Briskman: Woman Who Flipped Off Donald Trump’s Motorcade, Got Fired, Sues Her Old Employer

Juli Briskman, the Virginia woman who flipped off Donald Trump (well, actually his motorcade — it’s unclear if the president even saw the gesture) and got fired for it, is suing her former employer, USA Today is reporting. In her court filing, Briskman’s attorney, Maria Simon, claimed that her client’s First Amendment rights to free […]

6y ago

Will Blockchain Impact Jobs? Three Things You Need To Know

Will Blockchain Impact Jobs? Three Things You Need To Know

We have all been learning new terms lately. With “bitcoin” and “ethereum,” along came “blockchain.” Blockchain resulted from the creation of bitcoin. And, it allowed other cryptocurrencies to be developed. But blockchain is a gamechanger on its own. Now, one big question is on many people’s minds. How will blockchain impact future jobs and employment? […]

6y ago

Private Sector Employment Increased By 250,000 Jobs In December

Private Sector Employment Increased By 250,000 Jobs In December

According to a report by ADP Research Institute, published today, private-sector employment in the U.S. increased by 250,000 from November to December. Job growth surged in December 2017. The U.S. private sector added 250,000 jobs in December, which is the biggest rise since March, Reuters reports. More conservative estimates predicted a gain ranging from 165,000 […]

6y ago

Need Holiday Cash? These Companies Are Hiring Home-Based Customer Service Reps

Need Holiday Cash? These Companies Are Hiring Home-Based Customer Service Reps

If you need extra cash for holiday shopping, there are several major companies hiring for home-based customer service positions. While some positions require experience, others offer online training for applicants that have a computer and internet service. Amazon, Nordstrom, Disney, AAA, UHaul, Apple, and HSN are just a few of the companies who are offering […]

7y ago

Kelly Dodd Claims Bravo Will Never Fire Tamra: Reality Star Employed Because Of Daughter Drama?

Kelly Dodd Claims Bravo Will Never Fire Tamra: Reality Star Employed Because Of Daughter Drama?

Kelly Dodd has been filming The Real Housewives of Orange County for a couple of years, and one can imagine she’s learned a few things. For one, Kelly has learned how the ladies are with one another, and she has learned that Vicki Gunvalson doesn’t want to deal with Tamra Judge and Shannon Beador. Kelly […]

7y ago

Need A Home-Based Job? Hertz Is Hiring Full-Time Car Rental Agents With Benefits

Need A Home-Based Job? Hertz Is Hiring Full-Time Car Rental Agents With Benefits

Working from home isn’t an ideal situation for everyone. However, if you prefer to earn a living without leaving the house, Hertz is currently hiring home-based customer service reps with perks that rival many jobs that require a long commute. There seems to be a trend with major companies hiring employees who work from the […]

7y ago

Looking for a home-based job? HSN and Capital One are hiring customer service reps

Looking for a home-based job? HSN and Capital One are hiring customer service reps

Are you looking for a job that will allow you to work from home? There are a number of major corporations currently hiring part-time and full-time home-based customer service employees. With no commute and the assurance that you will be working for an established company, it’s worth taking a look if you need to make […]

7y ago

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