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Staffing Firm Again Cited for Safety Lapses After Young Temp Worker Loses...
PriorityWorkforce’s Santa Ana office (Photo by Eli Wolfe). Last October, Erick Solis, a 19-year-old temp worker at a Los Angeles food company, lost two fingers when his hand got caught in an unguarded...
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Bailout Backlash: GM Workers Strike After Recovered Automaker Shifts Jobs to...
Overdue paycheck: More than 50,000 General Motors workers have walked off the job across 50 sites in the United States. The strike is a response to the automaker’s movement of jobs to Mexico and to...
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Efforts to Claw Back Stolen Wages Painfully Slow, as California Employers Who...
In February, when California labor officials announced the biggest wage theft case against a private company in state history, they made sure to include a warning for all bosses: “Stealing earned wages...
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You may have heard how Michael Connelly’s latest crime thriller, “Fair Warning”, came by its title. This third bestseller in the Jack McEvoy series finds Jack working as an investigative reporter...
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As Restaurants and Bars Reopen, Workers Step Up Fight to End Tipped Minimum Wage
Most people who live paycheck to paycheck can still usually plan in two-week increments, but Sarah May-Seward plans “shift to shift.” She earns $40 per shift at a bar in White Lake Township in...
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Latino Death Rate in L.A. Skyrockets; National Masking Order Issued for...
“Frankly horrifying”: The Latino death rate in Los Angeles County has increased by over 1000 percent since November, from adaily average of 3.5 deaths to 40 deaths per 100,000 residents, Rong-Gong Lin...
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