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How an innovative portable shelter could help India's outdoor workers beat the heat
BENGALURU, India (AP) — An innovative portable shelter recently exhibited in one of India's largest cities shows how smart, cheap ways to…
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Volkswagen says 20,000 workers agree to early exits
Volkswagen said about 20,000 employees will voluntarily leave the company by the end of the decade as the carmaker restructures its German…
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LinkedIn cuts 281 workers in California as tech layoffs continue
LinkedIn, the professional social network where people search for work, is shedding jobs. The Microsoft-owned tech company has cut 281…
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Salesforce says AI has reduced hiring of engineers and customer service workers
Tech companies are relying on artificial intelligence to help with everything from customer service to software engineering Salesforce…
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Nissan offers buyouts to US workers, halts global pay rises, internal emails show
Japan’s Nissan has started offering buyouts to US workers and has suspended merit-based wage increases worldwide, internal emails reviewed…
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Nissan offers buyouts to US workers, halts global pay rises, internal e-mails show
Japan’s Nissan has started offering buyouts to US workers and has suspended merit-based wage increases worldwide, internal e-mails…
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Activists Know How to Stop Sexual Violence in the Garment Supply Chain. Will Brands Buy In?
Women across South and Southeast Asia are demanding an end to gender-based violence and harassment in the garment supply chain, which they…
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'Act of terror': Israeli Embassy workers killed in D.C. were at Gaza aid event
After gunfire erupted outside a humanitarian aid event for Gaza at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington late Wednesday, Yoni Kalin and…
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Surge AI is latest San Francisco startup accused of misclassifying its workers
Artificial intelligence training company Surge AI has been hit with a lawsuit alleging it has misclassified contractors hired to improve…
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Supreme Court asked to allow Trump administration to restart mass firings of federal workers
The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to break a lower court's hold on President Trump's mass firing of federal workers…
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Why 'Leo'? New pope shows support for workers, labor unions
On Thursday, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was introduced to the world as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and the first…
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Tariffs Could Wreck What Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Have Gained
It was always going to be a hard year for Bangladesh. Last summer, amid an economic collapse, protesters toppled a tyrant and pushed the…
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13 workers kidnapped from a Peruvian gold mine are found dead
LIMA, Peru (AP) — The bodies of 13 security guards kidnapped from a major Peruvian gold mine just over a week ago were found Sunday,…
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Michael Lewis’s Paean to Federal Workers Hits Differently Under DOGE
The pressures American civil servants face also stem from the fact that, contrary to the right’s nightmare, the U.S. bureaucracy is…
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'The truckers are scrambling': Trump's tariffs hit drivers, L.A. port workers hard
Amid a wave of unprecedented tariffs, anxiety is running high for truck drivers like Helen, who makes her living delivering cargo…
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Electronic Arts lays off hundreds of workers in latest round of cuts
Electronic Arts, the global video game company, is slashing its workforce again. The company, based in Redwood City, Calif., has…
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Tesla hiring over 1,000 workers to ramp up Semi truck production: report
Tesla is hiring more than a thousand new workers in Nevada as the electric vehicle maker looks to ramp up mass production of its…
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Union Workers turn on Trump tariffs: 'Direct attack on the working class'
A union representing West Coast dock workers has decried President Donald Trump's tariffs as a "direct attack on the working class," and…
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Federal Workers in Charge of Trump Terminations Also Firing Themselves
Trump’s whiplash tariff proposals turned the stock market—and Americans’ retirement savings—into a rollercoaster of losses. Still, Trump’s…
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Bay Area tech workers thought their jobs were safe. Then the 'golden handcuffs' came off
Evan Richardson grew up in Silicon Valley, surrounded by big tech companies that transformed how people live, socialize and work. As a…
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Trump makes probationary periods tougher for new federal workers
President Trump on Thursday ordered a new set of performance evaluations for federal workers during the probationary period of their…
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What Elon Musk Didn’t Budget For: Firing Workers Costs Money, Too
President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings, maybe even a “DOGE dividend” check in their mailboxes, when the Department…
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Karoline Leavitt tells corrupt federal workers to find new jobs
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told federal workers that if they don't like President Trump's agenda, they should find…
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Trump to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers
President Donald Trump is preparing to make one of the controversial personnel changes laid out in the conservative Project 2025 blueprint…