Tag: Personnel
Suit: Workers lured from India paid $1.20 per hour for years
<p>Workers from marginalized communities in India were lured to the U.S. and forced to work long hours for just a few dollars per day...
Internal emails reveal WHO knew of sex abuse claims in Congo
<p>BENI, Congo — When Shekinah was working as a nurse’s aide in northeastern Congo in January 2019, she said, she was offered a job...
EPA sets grants to restore ‘brownfields’ at blighted sites
<p>WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced more than $66 million in grants to 151 communities nationwide to assess and clean up...
US doctors group issues anti-racism plan for itself, field
<p>The nation’s largest doctors group Tuesday released a comprehensive plan aimed at dismantling structural racism inside its own ranks and within the U.S. medical...
AGs urge Facebook to drop ‘Instagram for kids’ proposal
A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of...
States push jobless from virus recession to return to work
STOWE, Vt. — Eduardo Rovetto is hoping the state of Vermont's reinstated requirement that people who are collecting unemployment benefits must seek work to...
Tyson raising pay to keep up as US chicken demand soars
Tyson Foods says it’s raising wages to combat absenteeism and worker turnover at its plants as U.S. demand for chicken soars.
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Nuveen CEO on why corporate awakening on race is no fad
<p>NEW YORK — Jose Minaya grew up in New York City, the child of immigrants from the Dominican Republic whose biggest involvement with the...
Electric 3-wheeled car factory, jobs coming to Mesa, Arizona
<p>NEW YORK — ElectraMeccanica, known for its tiny, single passenger, three-wheeled electric cars, has chosen Mesa, Arizona, as the location for its U.S. assembly...
AGs urge Facebook to drop ‘Instagram for kids’ proposal
<p>A bipartisan group of 44 attorneys general has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to drop company plans for a version of...