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B.C. (Canadian province) moves to scrap mandatory doctor’s notes for minor illnesses
Doctors have been pushing the province to stop employers from requiring sick notes, a process they say wastes time they could spend treating patients with more urgent needs.
B.C. Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside and Health Minister Josie Osborne unveiled the legislation Tuesday, saying it will free doctors up from needless paperwork, while preventing sick people from spreading their illness just to get a sick note.
In Minnesota wage theft is a felony, and the state just got it's first conviction.
Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 dollars from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for a Minneapolis affordable housing development.
Six years after a new law made wage theft a felony in Minnesota, our state has its first wage theft conviction.
Frederick Leon Newell will be sentenced in June for stealing $35,000 dollars from five workers he employed as a painting contractor for a Minneapolis affordable housing development.
Trump is judge shopping end union contracts with government workers.
The administration of President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit claiming that dozens of labor contracts between unions and federal agencies are invalid because they impede Trump's abilities to purge the federal workforce and protect national security.
The departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and four other agencies sued in Waco, Texas, federal court late on Thursday seeking a ruling that an executive order, opens new tab issued by Trump earlier in the day excluding certain agencies from collective bargaining requirements allows them to cancel existing contracts.
The administration has claimed that federal employee unions are at war with "President Trump's agenda"
Understanding Workplace Bullying
Dr. Hannah Scott adapted the wheel from intimate partner violence.
Sherrod Brown launches pro-worker org (USA)
Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown has launched a pro-worker organization to promote the “Dignity of Work.”
Gen Z is not lazy, but they are done taking the piss.
More than any other generation, 18-24 year olds have confessed an interest in a ‘Severance’ situation where they have no memory of their nine to five. But why do Gen Z hate work so much?
Lets cut people's benefits, who cares if they are too sick to work.
About a quarter of the working age population - those aged 16 to 64 - do not currently have a job.
The children yearn for the mines (USA)
Florida has been working for years to crack down on employers that hire undocumented immigrants. But that presented a problem for businesses in the state that are desperate for workers to fill low-wage and often undesirable jobs.
Employers try to say worker killed on the job committed suicide. (Australia)
Harley Muir, 29, died from crush injuries in 2021 after he became entangled while working on a multibaler machine at a factory in Bridgewater, near Bendigo.
On the day of his death, February 1, 2021, Mr Muir stepped on a guard rail to look into the multibaler before the strapping arch of the machine moved and crushed him.
The court heard on Friday how the jury rejected an argument from the defence that Mr Muir's actions were deliberate and an act of suicide.