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...
Universal basic income is 'straight out of the Karl Marx playbook,' financial guru Dave Ramsey says (www.businessinsider.com)
Paywall removed: archive.is/MoGwg
CIA mishandled sexual assault, harassment within its ranks, internal review finds (www.politico.com)
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)
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...
Bethesda Game Studios Montreal workers are trying to unionize (www.gamedeveloper.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/21476821
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.
Pillaging by the Super-Rich Will Continue Until the Working Class Revolts (www.commondreams.org)
Uber is locking New York drivers out of its apps and blaming a city pay rule (www.engadget.com)
Study: American workers in labor unions has fallen from nearly 35% in 1954 to just 10.5% in 2018 (medium.com)
LGBT Workers Need Unions, Not Rainbow Capitalism (inthesetimes.com)
For Many Greeks, Six-Day 48-Hour Work Week Now Set to Begin July 1st (www.thenationalherald.com)
Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate, with an estimated 6,000 construction workers dying as a result of suicide in 2022 (www.nbcnews.com)
Greece introduces the six-day work week (www.dw.com)
“While the 40-hour work week is still officially in place, employers are permitted to require staff to work up to two unpaid hours per day for a limited period in return for more free time.”
If it’s 100 degrees out, does your boss have to give you a break? Probably not. (www.vox.com)
Amazon retaliated after employee walkout over the return-to-office policy, NLRB lawyers say (www.theverge.com)
California Democrats agree to delay health care worker minimum wage increase to help balance budget (abcnews.go.com)
California to become third state to mandate heat protections for indoor workers (www.nbcnews.com)
Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. (arstechnica.com)
Big tech companies are still trying to rally workers back into physical offices, and many workers are still not having it. Based on a recent report, computer-maker Dell has stumbled even more than most....