4 Florida restaurants with the same owner had to give over $250,000 of back pay to staff after the Department of Labor said they only paid servers tips

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Low wages drove workers out of the restaurant industry during the pandemic.

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Companies are using layoffs to cut new-hire salaries and win back the power they held before the pandemic, some recruiters say

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Companies are lowering salaries for new hires, and recent layoffs are tamping down the power of remaining employees, recruiters say.

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An ex-Googler said finding out they'd get far less stock than expected felt like a 'second kick in the chest' after losing their job

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Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet.

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Walmart workers to begin seeing higher paychecks on March 2, but their minimum wage will still be below Amazon, Costco, and Target

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Walmart workers have been protesting low wages for years.

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There are plenty of open jobs for tech workers — they're just not at tech companies

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Tech jobs are still plentiful, despite the massive wave of layoffs, according to a new report.

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Sheetz drops policy against employees with 'obvious missing, broken or badly discolored teeth' after Insider reporting

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Sheetz used to make a flawless smile a condition of employment. Now, the chain is dropping the requirement after Insider's reporting.

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China's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

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China will lose half its population by the end of the century. The population decline is a warning for the US and Europe.

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The country's shrinking population is a grim omen for the rest of the world

Ex-Sheetz worker said she quit her job over the chain's 'smile policy' that bans 'obvious missing, broken or badly discolored teeth'

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Employees at Sheetz's roughly 650 convenience stores must have full smiles without any "missing, broken, or badly discolored teeth," according to company policy.

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Controversial noncompetes now face a possible ban. But one group never had to worry about them: attorneys

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Hundreds of thousands of workers could soon switch jobs if the FTC's proposed noncompete ban gets enacted, recruiters told Insider.

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