Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The ABK Alliance outlined the harsh conditions that many at Activision Blizzard employees working for quality assurance had, including 50 to 60 hour workweeks on average, being hired on contract and thus lacking benefits and employment security, and hostility towards transgender and other LGBT individuals. [84]
The Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) was established in 1913 to regulate wages, hours and working conditions in California. [1] It was defunded by the California legislature in 2004 [2] but its regulations consisting of 18 "Wage Orders" remain in effect, enforced by the California Department of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
United Auto Workers Local 4811, which represents 48,000 student workers in the University of California system, authorized a strike alleging their workers' rights were violated in actions against ...
Gerald M. Levin (May 6, 1939 – March 13, 2024) was an American media businessman. Levin was involved in brokering the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000, at the height of the dot-com bubble, a merger which was ultimately disadvantageous to Time Warner and described as "the biggest train wreck in the history of corporate America."
The California Policy Center, a state-focused think tank, says that its work is politics-focused and that its normal day-to-day meetings are now illegal under the law, Senate Bill 399.
California lawmakers on Monday advanced a nation-leading measure that would give more than a half-million fast food workers more power and protections, over the objections of restaurant owners who ...
The strike was prompted by the poor working conditions in the match factory, including fourteen-hour work days, poor pay, excessive fines, and the severe health complications of working with yellow (or white) phosphorus, such as phossy jaw. 1888 (United States) United States enacted first federal labor relations law; the law applied only to ...
California AB5 was passed in 2019, intended to make app-based workers — such as those for Uber, Lyft and Postmates — full employees with a minimum wage, workplace protections and other benefits.