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  2. California fines Amazon $6M for alleged violations of ...

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    The California Labor Commissioner's Office has fined Amazon a total of $5.9 million on allegations the company violated a state law by working warehouse employees so hard that their safety was put ...

  3. Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988

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    It applies to companies with 50 or more employees (unlike 100 for the federal law) where either 25 (50 for the federal law) or more workers are affected, if that number makes up at least 33% of the workers on that site. NY WARN Act requires a 90-day notice from the employer, unlike the federal Act that requires a 60-day notice. History

  4. Why a log of redacted Signal messages shines a light on ... - AOL

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    In 2023, 26.7% of executives at Level 8 or above were women. That’s up from 25.2% in 2022 and 24.1% in 2021. But earlier this month, I was reminded of Amazon’s male-dominated leadership beyond ...

  5. US court nixes order barring Amazon from firing pro ... - AOL

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    Updated June 12, 2024 at 4:24 PM. By Daniel Wiessner. (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a judge's order that required Amazon.com to refrain from firing union supporters amid ...

  6. The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp

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    When it comes to low-wage positions, companies like Amazon are now able to precisely calibrate the size of its workforce to meet consumer demand, week by week or even day by day. Amazon, for instance, says it has 90,000 full-time U.S. employees at its fulfillment and sorting centers—but it plans to bring on an estimated 100,000 seasonal ...

  7. Silk Road (marketplace) - Wikipedia

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    Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts."

  8. Layoff - Wikipedia

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    Layoff. A layoff [1] or downsizing is the temporary suspension or permanent termination of employment of an employee or, more commonly, a group of employees (collective layoff) [2] for business reasons, such as personnel management or downsizing (reducing the size of) an organization. Originally, layoff referred exclusively to a temporary ...

  9. Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers

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    Amazon is trimming its headcount after it went on a hiring spree during the Covid pandemic. The company’s global workforce swelled to more than 1.6 million by the end of 2021, up from 798,000 in ...