#Wages

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Deepali_Yoga

Historically, the emergence of caste system is rooted in the purity pollution dichotomy. In the Purushasukta of Rigveda, all “pure” duties were assigned to the Dwija (upper castes) and all

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

"Gig economy" is a polite term for "worker misclassification" - a way to violate labor law by pretending that your employees are actually independent contractors. 1/ Unsurprisingly, the companies that

Josh Cadorette

joshcadorette

Almost Labor Day!A history of the late summer holiday‘s origin. 1/ May 1894.The Pullman Strike.The economy was in trouble.Industrialist George Pullman made the following labor decisions for his railroad

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mothrmushroom

let's fucking gooooohttps://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/05/chipotle-workers-fair-workweek-law-nyc Chipotle was my first food service job in college and i didn't realize truly how exploitative that environment was until i moved on to wor

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TheMrZippie

stolen 1. Bolu - Tom Rosenthal- Run for Those Hills, Babe- Watermelon- To You Alone 2. Get Better - Bad Sounds- Wages- How Are You Gonna Lose?- No Luck 3.

Somesh Jha

someshjha7

The MP government is planning to introduce radical changes to labour laws, including allowing more factories to operate without following safety & health norms & give a free hand to

Bud Pfizer

BostonJerry

The job market situation is simple:After the 2008 crash, employers were able to hire workers for much less than they were worth and got used to having a ton of

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

For the first @realdonaldtrump and @JoeBiden debate tomorrow, we asked 3,200 business leaders at @BusinessM4A what they wanted to hear from the 2 candidates. What they said will probably stun

RavSRM

RavSRM

Glad the GLU report is in black and white, public and well evidenced. Stuff we all knew and witnessed is no longer anecdotal. But it doesn't even touch half the

Incarnated Fruit

TitanJenn

Coin shortage?Pay attention people...A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean "mostly" cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Most of the world's rich countries handled the economic crisis of pandemic by paying workers' wages if employers would keep them on the payroll, so that when the crisis passes

Yusuf Unjhawala 🇮🇳

YusufDFI

Raising income tax rate to 40% for those who earn over Rs 1 crore a year,re-introduction of wealth tax, effecting a one-time Covid-19 cess of 4% on taxable income of

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: October 30, 1837. Nicholas Farwell, a train engineer toiling for the Boston and Worcester Rail Road Corporation fell off a train while at work and

Gram Vaani

GramVaani

In Jun-Aug ‘20 we examined in #NotStatusQuo the need to systematically address problems in access to #socialprotection in India instead of one-time, temporary tweaks made during the #COVID19 lockdown. (1/n)

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JohnFMiller86

Falsehoods and unfalsifiable assertions you must accept to support the progressive system of power: 1. Minorities can't be racist; 2. Women can't be sexist; 3. Conservatives can't be feminists; 4.

Bryan Stuart

BryanAStuart

Excited to share my new @nberpubs paper w/ @martha_j_bailey and the late John DiNardo. We look at what happened when the 1966 FLSA increased its minimum wage to the highest