5 Women File Employment Discrimination Suits Against Amazon.com May 20, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel Amazon.com Inc. was hit on Wednesday with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles,...
India Continues Rescue Operations After Powerful Cyclone Tauktae Batters Region May 19, 2021 By Summit Khanna and Aishwarya Nair AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI – Naval vessels and aircraft scoured the waters off India’s west coast late on Wednesday after the most powerful...
Cyclone Sinks Barge Operated by India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp., Hundreds Rescued May 18, 2021 By Sudhi Ranjan Sen and Debjit Chakraborty A cyclone barreling through India’s west coast sank a barge hired by state-run explorer Oil & Natural Gas Corp. prompting...
Workers Refusing Covid Vaccine Could Lose Their Jobs May 5, 2021 By Sarah Kopit Texas nurse Jennifer Bridges plans to go to work on June 7, like it’s any other day. The only difference...
Judge Tosses Wife’s Suit Blaming Employer for Her Husband’s Covid February 22, 2021 By Joel Rosenblatt A federal judge tossed out a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that sought to hold an employer responsible for a worker’s spouse getting...
More Capitol Hill Rioters Face Firings Back at Work January 12, 2021 By Joseph Pisani and Cathy Bussewitz A printing company in Maryland saw the photo on Twitter Wednesday night: an employee roaming the halls of the U.S....
Fatal Accident Halts Production at Hyundai’s S. Korean Factory After Refit for New EV January 4, 2021 SEOUL – Production at Hyundai Motor’s factory in Ulsan, South Korea, was halted on Monday after a worker died in...
Can Insurance-Related Firms Compel Employees to Get COVID-19 Vaccination? December 28, 2020 By Bryan Johnson and Samuel Licker The long-awaited and highly anticipated COVID-19 vaccine is here. The first to arrive on the scene, from Pfizer-BioNTech, received emergency...
Don’t Force Employees to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine: Viewpoint December 16, 2020 By Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg Opinion Here’s a question we’re sure to see in the courts before long: What if your employer mandates a Covid-19 vaccination...
Lawsuit Alleges Uber Uses ‘Biased’ Rider Ratings to Fire Drivers October 27, 2020 By Josh Eidelson Uber Technologies Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of violating the U.S. Civil Rights Act by firing minority drivers based...