An East Coast restaurant chain has been ordered to pay $11.4 million back to more than 1,300 employees over claims it paid staff below minimum wage

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There are 5 distinct personalities in the workplace from the 'detective' to the 'road warrior,' and you'll probably work with them all, a new survey says

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A new Slack report categorized the five different workplace personalities.

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Dollar General hasn't investigated worker conditions despite shareholders' demands, an investor says in a new letter to company

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Dollar General shareholders approved a proposal to investigate working conditions at the retailer's stores in May.

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Walmart managers are going to extreme lengths to get customers to complete the retailer's checkout survey. It's confusing shoppers and workers.

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The checkout survey at Walmart.

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How limestone kilns are slowly killing entire families in Pakistan

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Thousands of workers in southern Pakistan spend their lives mining and cooking limestone. The process releases plumes of toxic smoke, polluting the environment and poisoning workers.

The most impactful strikes in history — for better or worse

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Workers from Amazon, Walmart, FedEx, Target, Instacart, and Amazon's Whole Foods Market went on strike amid the coronavirus pandemic on May 1, 2020.

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Gen Z workers are freaking out about AI

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Expectations are high for Gen Zers to reap the benefits of AI.

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A survey of 15,000 workers around the world found that less than a third think they have a 'healthy' relationship with their job

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Workers commuting to the office in London.

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Millionaire CEO who called for high unemployment to remind workers who's in charge apologizes for 'deeply insensitive' remarks after viral backlash

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Property developer Tim Gurner says he "deeply regrets" calling for higher unemployment to "remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around."

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A millionaire CEO is rooting for higher unemployment, saying it's time to 'remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around'

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Tim Gurner says he the unemployment rate needs to rise to remind workers who's in charge.

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