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"Euphoric Experience": Woman Goes Into Labour During Taylor Swift Concert
A few days later, in February 2024, she gave birth to a baby girl, who is now two months old.
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Pregnant Actor Goes Into Labour At Beyonce's Concert, Stays Till The End
When the labour pains first began, she thought perhaps they were false contractions since the baby's due date wasn't for a few days.
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Facebook Parent Meta Can Be Sued for Inhumane Working Conditions, Rules Kenyan Court
A Kenyan court on Monday rejected a bid by Facebook's parent company Meta to stop a case accusing it of exploitation and poor working conditions. The suit was filed by a former content moderator at Sama, a company contracted by Meta to review Facebook posts, and alleges that workers in Kenya were subjected to inhumane conditions, including forced l...
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Capacit'e Infraprojects Receives Contract Worth Rs 117 Crore From DLF
The contract amount of Rs 117.20 crore excludes GST and labour cess.
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Gratuity After One Year of Service For Contract Workers? Details Here
Under the new Social Security Code and the Industrial Relation Code, the government proposes to ease the five-year service rule for gratuity payments for fixed-term employees.
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Vinfast Parts Ways With Four Top Executives As It Readies Expansion
A spokesman for VinFast, a unit of conglomerate Vingroup, said it had "ended labour contracts" with the four with their consent. It said two of the executives, whom it did not name, had resigned for personal reasons.
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Amazon Work Rules Govern Tweets, Body Odour of Contract Drivers
Thousands of Amazon workers aren’t employed by the Seattle leviathan. They work for small, independent businesses with contracts to transport packages for Amazon. But that hasn’t stopped the company from dictating the state of their fingernails — and a whole lot more.
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Volkswagen Mulls Board Change That Could See Labour Chief Move On: Report
Last year, the 64-year-old opposed an attempt by Diess to extend his contract as the CEO strives to cut costs and free up resources to invest more in electric vehicles.
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Apple Supplier Wistron Could Not Manage Scaled Up iPhone Plant, Broke Several Laws: Government Report
An investigation by Karnataka government into the violence at Apple supplier Wistron’s Kolar plant states that the Taiwanese contract manufacturer could not cope up with the rapid scaling up of manpower and breached several laws. The manpower at this plant, which assembles one iPhone model, rose to 10,500 workers from the permitted 5,000 in a sho...
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Taiwanese Firms Expect Government Support On Land, Labour Issues: Official
Major Taiwanese contract manufacturers Foxconn, Wistron Corp and Pegatron Corp have plans to invest up to $900 million in India over the next five years
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Gujarat Government Relaxes Labour Laws To Attract Investment
As per the new rules, entrepreneurs are not supposed to pay any "contract fee" if less than 50 contract labourers are employed
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Amazon Reports Over 19,000 US Frontline Employees Had COVID-19
Amazon.com on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its US frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44 percent of the total, a disclosure sought by labour advocates who have criticised the COVID-19 response of the world's largest online retailer.
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Lecturer Turns Farm Labourer To Support Family Amid COVID-19 Lockdown
Navnath Gore was a lecturer in a college in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, but the COVID-19-induced lockdown took away his contract job and reduced him to a farm labourer.
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"Promise Was To End Corona In 21 Days, Ended Jobs Instead": Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi released a new video today targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government for "destroying the unorganized sector" - which he had earlier called the backbone of the Indian economy - with the "sudden" nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus.
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Fiat Chrysler Asks U.S. Court To Toss Out GM Racketeering Claims
Fiat Chrysler said GM's lawsuit was "fatally flawed" for several reasons.The lawsuit was filed after a four-year statute of limitations had expired, Fiat Chrysler argued. GM is not a direct victim of wrongdoing by FCA executives or UAW officials related to labour contracts, and so cannot bring a RICO action, FCA argued in its motion.
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"Euphoric Experience": Woman Goes Into Labour During Taylor Swift Concert
A few days later, in February 2024, she gave birth to a baby girl, who is now two months old.
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Pregnant Actor Goes Into Labour At Beyonce's Concert, Stays Till The End
When the labour pains first began, she thought perhaps they were false contractions since the baby's due date wasn't for a few days.
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Facebook Parent Meta Can Be Sued for Inhumane Working Conditions, Rules Kenyan Court
A Kenyan court on Monday rejected a bid by Facebook's parent company Meta to stop a case accusing it of exploitation and poor working conditions. The suit was filed by a former content moderator at Sama, a company contracted by Meta to review Facebook posts, and alleges that workers in Kenya were subjected to inhumane conditions, including forced l...
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Capacit'e Infraprojects Receives Contract Worth Rs 117 Crore From DLF
The contract amount of Rs 117.20 crore excludes GST and labour cess.
-
Gratuity After One Year of Service For Contract Workers? Details Here
Under the new Social Security Code and the Industrial Relation Code, the government proposes to ease the five-year service rule for gratuity payments for fixed-term employees.
-
Vinfast Parts Ways With Four Top Executives As It Readies Expansion
A spokesman for VinFast, a unit of conglomerate Vingroup, said it had "ended labour contracts" with the four with their consent. It said two of the executives, whom it did not name, had resigned for personal reasons.
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Amazon Work Rules Govern Tweets, Body Odour of Contract Drivers
Thousands of Amazon workers aren’t employed by the Seattle leviathan. They work for small, independent businesses with contracts to transport packages for Amazon. But that hasn’t stopped the company from dictating the state of their fingernails — and a whole lot more.
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Volkswagen Mulls Board Change That Could See Labour Chief Move On: Report
Last year, the 64-year-old opposed an attempt by Diess to extend his contract as the CEO strives to cut costs and free up resources to invest more in electric vehicles.
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Apple Supplier Wistron Could Not Manage Scaled Up iPhone Plant, Broke Several Laws: Government Report
An investigation by Karnataka government into the violence at Apple supplier Wistron’s Kolar plant states that the Taiwanese contract manufacturer could not cope up with the rapid scaling up of manpower and breached several laws. The manpower at this plant, which assembles one iPhone model, rose to 10,500 workers from the permitted 5,000 in a sho...
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Taiwanese Firms Expect Government Support On Land, Labour Issues: Official
Major Taiwanese contract manufacturers Foxconn, Wistron Corp and Pegatron Corp have plans to invest up to $900 million in India over the next five years
-
Gujarat Government Relaxes Labour Laws To Attract Investment
As per the new rules, entrepreneurs are not supposed to pay any "contract fee" if less than 50 contract labourers are employed
-
Amazon Reports Over 19,000 US Frontline Employees Had COVID-19
Amazon.com on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its US frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44 percent of the total, a disclosure sought by labour advocates who have criticised the COVID-19 response of the world's largest online retailer.
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Lecturer Turns Farm Labourer To Support Family Amid COVID-19 Lockdown
Navnath Gore was a lecturer in a college in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, but the COVID-19-induced lockdown took away his contract job and reduced him to a farm labourer.
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"Promise Was To End Corona In 21 Days, Ended Jobs Instead": Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi released a new video today targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government for "destroying the unorganized sector" - which he had earlier called the backbone of the Indian economy - with the "sudden" nationwide lockdown to check the spread of the coronavirus.
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Fiat Chrysler Asks U.S. Court To Toss Out GM Racketeering Claims
Fiat Chrysler said GM's lawsuit was "fatally flawed" for several reasons.The lawsuit was filed after a four-year statute of limitations had expired, Fiat Chrysler argued. GM is not a direct victim of wrongdoing by FCA executives or UAW officials related to labour contracts, and so cannot bring a RICO action, FCA argued in its motion.
