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Workers to picket Tenet hospitals over alleged understaffing, health insurance concerns – Orange County Register
Workers plan to picket three Tenet Healthcare hospitals Wednesday, June 16, alleging the facilities are understaffed and have left some employees without health insurance while the company has received billions in federal COVID-19 relief funds and spent $1.1 billion to buy 45 surgery centers. The employees, including respiratory therapists, housekeepers, nursing assistants and medical technicians, …
Amazon workers claim HR executive Beth Galetti is a blocker for diversity and inclusion efforts
Amazon has never been known as an easy place to work. It’s not uncommon for job candidates to ask Amazon’s recruiters about an infamous New York Times story from 2015 that reported corporate employees routinely cry at their desks. Amazon corporate managers have goals for “unregretted attrition” — basically a percentage of their staff that …
IU Health workers gather to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandate
INDIANAPOLIS – Workers for IU Health gathered with supporters Saturday to protest the health provider’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Dozens attends the Saturday afternoon demonstration behind IU Fairbanks Hall. IU Health is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Sept. 1. Those who fail to do so face termination. There are some exemptions …
‘Dogs read people’ Therapy dogs gives workers a break and good vibes
Click here for updates on this story HENDERSONVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) — We all know dogs can make people stop on a dime and feel better about their day. Their superpower does wonders for staff at Pardee Hospital. “Are we gonna see some people?” Mike Roberts said while making the rounds recently. He and his …
Attack in Afghanistan Kills 10 Workers From Mine-Clearing Charity
Washington’s peace envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, finished a four-day visit to Kabul on Tuesday. Mr. Khalilzad is an Afghan-born American diplomat who led negotiations ahead of the Trump administration’s February 2020 peace deal with the Taliban, which laid out the conditions and timeline for the American withdrawal. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said in …
Pandemic Burning out Health-Care Workers – NBC 7 San Diego
Thirty percent of health-care workers have considered leaving the field after working through the pandemic, according to a survey conducted by the Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation Poll. More than half of the nearly 3,000 U.S. healthcare workers who were surveyed reported feeling burned out. About 6 in 10 said their mental health has taken a …
Capital Rundown: Vaccinated workers don’t need masks, Gov. apologizes for breaking COVID rules and more.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – Miss the Capital Rundown? Don’t worry. You can watch it here on wlns.com. Vaccinated workers no longer have to wear a mask and employees working from home can now return on June 1. This comes as COVID-19 cases continue to drop in Michigan and as vaccination levels continue to rise. Despite …
Survey conducted to explore the struggles and stress arising from technology for remote workers / Digital Information World
Computers have been playing an important role in everyone’s life, however these computers who were invented to help people can also cause frustration and stress. This frustration can sometimes reach a new level when as soon as the deadline keeps narrowing down and the computer on which the user was relying on, starts showing troubles. …
Antonio García Martínez: Apple parts ways with newly hired Ex-Facebook employee after workers cite ‘misogynistic’ writing
Antonio García Martínez, formerly a product manager for ad targeting at Facebook as well as the author of the 2016 autobiography “Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley,” joined Apple’s ads team in April, according to his LinkedIn profile. García Martínez’s book chronicles his life in the San Francisco Bay Area’s tech …
Demand will rise for workers skilled in technology
IBM Malaysia working with MoE and MDEC to address shortage of ‘new collar’ workers through its P-Tech programme by NUR HANANI AZMAN / pic by MUHD AMIN NAHARUL AS TRADITIONAL jobs disappear, Malaysia needs to train a new generation of workers who can fill the rising demand for cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies. IBM …
