A 2nd round of layoffs at Meta and Amazon shows companies are taking back their power — and they may not stop there

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Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, or AWS, the retail giant's cloud-computing business.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced the company would lay off 9,000 employees, on top of an earlier cut of 18,000.

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My company is using stack rankings to evaluate performance, and I'm worried about being targeted. Is there anything I can do?

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Forced, or stack, ranking is a system in which managers score their employees' individual performances relative to that of their coworkers.

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A worker died in a ship's cargo hold in Florida after 2 tons of paper crushed him against a wall, Department of Labor says

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A worker was crushed to death by two tons of paper being hoisted onto a ship, the DOL said.

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2 Florida restaurants kept staff tips to cover dine-and-dash customers and illegally charged workers for their uniforms, the DOL says

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Two restaurants were located in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Mass layoffs including workers who are pregnant or on parental leave may seem unfair, but it's not illegal in the US — here's why

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Labor lawyers told Insider that people who are pregnant or on FMLA leave aren't automatically protected from mass layoffs.
Labor lawyers told Insider that people who are pregnant or on FMLA leave aren't automatically protected from mass layoffs.

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Viral TikTok of Lowe's employee screaming for help prompts debate among current and former workers about safety training at the home-improvement chain

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A viral TikTok has prompted a debate among Lowe's workers about the company's safety training.

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A laid-off Twitter employee reportedly lost her health insurance a week before her child was born

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An ex-Twitter employee says she lost her company health insurance a week before her child was born, per CNN.

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If your boss is asking you to do more at work for the same pay, watch out — you're being 'quiet hired'

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Many workers today feel overworked and underpaid.

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Kroger is the latest retailer to spend big on employee wages as the job market tightens

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Kroger will invest $770 million more in pay and benefits for its employees this year, making it the latest retailer to spend more as the retail labor market remains tight.

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A laid-off Twitter exec who went viral for sleeping on the office floor says people who are afraid of being 'dunked on' should stay 'small and invisible'

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Esther Crawford had worked as a director of product management at Twitter until she was reportedly laid off over the weekend.

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