How Japan has avoided the gaming industry’s persistent layoffs (www.theverge.com)
Pay for Lawyers Is So High People Are Comparing It to the N.B.A. (www.nytimes.com)
Growing number of ‘unemployables’ frustrated by the job market (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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‘Call the police, he’s on drugs': But the worker was dying from heatstroke. (www.politico.com)
The little-known but successful model for protecting human and labor rights (www.vox.com)
The Lie That Costs Americans Their Jobs I 10 Economic Myths Debunked #6 (www.youtube.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
Why work four days a week when you can work six? Greece gives it a shot. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Why are Japanese developers not undergoing mass layoffs? -- spoilers: better employment laws (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Layoffs and studio closures have been an unfortunately-common occurrence across the industry since last year, with layoffs in 2024 already matching 2023’s total of over 10,000 developers being put out of work. Yet if there is one bright spot to find in this bleak reality, it is, ironically, in the same city as the departed...
CIA mishandled sexual assault, harassment within its ranks, internal review finds (www.politico.com)
Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says (www.businessinsider.com)
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New protections empower H-2A agricultural workers to organize (prismreports.org)
Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour (www.theverge.com)
Bethesda Game Studios Montreal workers are trying to unionize (www.gamedeveloper.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/21476821
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...
Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become (www.theguardian.com)
Uber and Lyft agree to minimum pay and benefits for Massachusetts drivers (www.theguardian.com)
is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/16125204...
Joe Biden is old. So is Donald Trump. So are millions of other American workers (www.usatoday.com)
This article gets so close to an important point and then misses it.