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Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, ‘willing to do anything,’ says Squarespace CMO (finance.yahoo.com)

Never believe the hype. (lemmy.world)

Restaurant group in Massachusetts is trying to reject a public vote on paying tipped workers (lemmy.world)

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Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour (www.theverge.com)

From 'quiet quitting' to 'coffee badging' — why employees are less interested in work (www.cnbc.com)

Disneyland workers say they live in cars, motels due to low pay (www.bbc.com)

Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says (www.businessinsider.com)

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Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become (www.theguardian.com)

Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself (www.kron4.com)

Unions who think Republicans are warming to labor rights are getting played (www.theguardian.com)

‘Call the police, he’s on drugs': But the worker was dying from heatstroke. (www.politico.com)

Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes (www.npr.org)

Federal judges have blocked so much progress that Biden, his administration, and appointees have attempted to make. It’s absurd

Are there any political or social movements that try to mandate all business be worker owned cooperatives and how can we support them?

I’m all for higher minimum wages, unions, paid leaves and other forms of worker protection, but it seems like the most forms of worker protection focus on maintaining a division between an employer(s) who owns the business and the employee who makes money for the business but does not own it. IMO, this division is unethical...

Dollar General has 48hrs to make stores safe or face more penalties after $12m fine (www.independent.co.uk)

Sam Altman's UBI study finds that money can buy happiness • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Petition to pass paid leave nationwide delivered to all members of congress (abcnews.go.com)

The United States is one of seven countries globally that does not have any guaranteed form of paid leave, the petition states.

90% of billionaires are men, and only 15% of female billionaires are self-made (medium.com)

The retirement savings crisis: Why more Americans can’t afford to stop working (www.usatoday.com)

Nearly 90% Amazon India workers don’t get time for bathroom breaks, survey finds (www.independent.co.uk)

Nearly 90 per cent of Amazon India’s warehouse employees say they are not allowed sufficient time to use the restroom, according to a new survey that adds to a growing body of evidence of poor working conditions at the multinational corporation....

If you ever worked shifts and transitioned to a 9 to 5 job, how difficult was the change?

I’m a nurse working shifts and sometimes 5 days without a pause and I still don’t know if I’m gonna take one of the 2 9 to 5 jobs my hospital system has offered. I’d earn less money, but I’m already 45 years old and I don’t know if I should call it quits and settle for a regular job 5 days a week and free weekends...

Hotel sued over claim they ignored Black man’s resume until he used a white name (www.independent.co.uk)

The workers at Bethesda Game Studios have fully unionized (www.engadget.com)

My work is organizing right now, this afternoon, and I don't know what I'm doing. What are the best practices? What are the pitfslls?

I work in a restaurant, high-end, multiple locations across the US. We are in Chicago, specifically. We have corporate in for the week as we launch a new menu with training for the whole team every day. Yesterday, second day, right before the end of the day, they sprung on us that they are changing our pay structure....

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