(Reuters) – Hundreds of fast-food employees in Detroit walked off the job on Friday, temporarily shuttering a handful of outlets as part of a growing U.S. worker movement that is demanding higher wages Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
Post sponsored by As part of our sponsorship program with the Application Developers Alliance, we’re highlighting some of the content on DevsBuild.It, their new resource website, that we think will be most interesting to Techdirt… Original post on techdirt.com Comments on reddit.com
A spokesman for the Houston Police Department reports that a firearm was discharged around 1:35 p.m. Thursday at Bush Intercontinental Airport.A stringer with FOX 26 News says someone’s body was foun Original post on myfoxhouston.com Comments on reddit.com
Don’t you dare relieve a basic biological need on company time! Original post on alternet.org Comments on reddit.com
Vatican employees won’t receive the special bonus they are traditionally awarded when a new pope is elected, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday (April 18), under orders from Pope Francis to give extra money to charity instead. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
A stealth attack by Senate leadership on Thursday demolished key provisions of the STOCK Act requiring electronic filing of financial disclosure statements and a new database of the information they contain. Original post on opensecrets.org Comments on reddit.com
Five former Wyoming Premium Farms employees were each placed on six months’ probation after they were convicted on multiple counts of cruelty to animals. Original post on gazette.com Comments on reddit.com
THE internet browser you are using to read this blog post could help a potential employer decide whether or not you would do well at a job. How might your choice of… Original post on economist.com Comments on reddit.com
Dozens of employees at Canada’s largest bank are losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers, who are in Canada taking over the work in their department. Original post on cbc.ca Comments on reddit.com
A man driving a motorized shopping cart shot an Anchorage Walmart employee during a dispute over the man’s dog during a busy Saturday afternoon inside the Midtown store, police said. Original post on adn.com Comments on reddit.com
Volkswagen is coughing up a massive NZ$1.1 billion in bonuses to workers after a record year. Original post on stuff.co.nz Comments on reddit.com
Lisa and Anthony Demaree of Peoria, Arizona are suing Walmart in a bid to win damages after an horrific ordeal which they claim has robbed them of precious time with their kids and has cost them $75,000 in legal fees. Original post on dailymail.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
In 2008, Lisa and Anthony Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
In this episode of Sext-Files: mining FBI databases for dirt on Original post on arstechnica.com Comments on reddit.com
Exploiting generous benefits and loopholes, some public sector employees are earning more than $260,000 in a year. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
BitTorrent is used by millions of people every day, even in places where you wouldn’t really expect. New data reveals that employees at the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division are sharing movies and TV-shows with the rest of the world. Is the FBI gathering information on BitTorrent users, or could it be that the feds harbor in-house pirates? Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Congress has long supported anti-piracy measures like Sopa – but that hasn’t stopped its employees from illegally downloading Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
Over the last four months, Congress has downloaded everything from CSI to The Smurfs. Original post on usnews.com Comments on reddit.com
One of Louisville’s best known restaurants has closed after a controversy over a new employee policy. Lynn’s Paradise Cafe closed Friday after 22 years in business. Facebook discussion about the closing Original post on al.com Comments on reddit.com
VirtualEmployee.com is a remote staffing company of repute in India. The company is known for its unique outsourcing model through which clients get remotely w Original post on slideshare.net Comments on reddit.com
Craft store chain Hobby Lobby announced on Friday that it will ignore the ruling of U.S. courts and refuse to provide copay-free birth control access to its employees. It will do so despite whatever costs it may incur, even if they are higher than the cost of birth control itself. Upon learning that Obamacare required [...] Original post on thinkprogress.org Comments on reddit.com
The bill, introduced by State Rep. Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, bars companies and schools from asking employees and students for their usernames and passwords. Original post on mlive.com Comments on reddit.com
BitTorrent is used by millions of people every day, including people who work at major Hollywood studios. Those who are said to be suffering the most from online piracy are no stranger to sharing copyrighted files themselves. New data reveals that employees at Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Disney, Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox are openly pirating movies, games and other forms of entertainment while at work. Original post on torrentfreak.com Comments on reddit.com
Hostess company continues to screw over its workers. Original post on alternet.org Comments on reddit.com
While paying millions to its executives, Hostess took the money that was supposed to go into employees’ pensions and used it for other things. Original post on politicususa.com Comments on reddit.com
Employees at book publisher Random House are getting a little something extra in their fishnet Christmas stockings this year, a $5,000 bonus. The bonus, which will be the same for top editors as their secretaries, follows a particularly good year for the publishing house in large part from the success of the erotic hit Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
At a time when Republicans are proposing deep cuts to programs like SNAP (food stamps), WalMart heavily supported Republican candidates in the recent election. Original post on politicususa.com Comments on reddit.com
