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Amazon Fined About $6 Million For Violating Labour Laws In US
E-commerce giant Amazon has been fined nearly $6 million for violating labour laws in the state of California in the US.
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Amnesty International Condemns Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus's Conviction By Bangladesh Court
The 83-year-old economist was on Monday sentenced to six months in jail by a court for violating the labour laws
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Nobel Peace Laureate Convicted Of Violating Bangladesh's Labour Laws
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on Monday of violating Bangladesh's labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated.
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Activision Blizzard Accused of Spying on Employees, Threatening Them
Activision Blizzard violated US labour law by illegally surveilling employees during a walkout and threatening to shut down internal chat channels as a union sought to organize its workers, a federal labour agency said on Friday. The Communication Workers of America union (CWA) has accused the Call of Duty maker of a series of illegal labour practi...
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Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a US labour agency has found. The National Labor Relations Board will issue a complaint targeting the policies and claiming Apple executives made comments that stymied worker organising unless the company settles first, an agency official s...
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Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple Inc maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a U.S. labor agency has found.
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Twitter Accused by 100 Ex-Employees of Various Legal Violations After Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter on Tuesday was hit by legal complaints by 100 employees, accusing the company of legal violations from targeting women during companywide layoffs and not paying severance to fired workers. The microblogging platform now faces 100 demands for arbitration making similar claims to four class action lawsuits pending against the company in a fed...
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SpaceX Employees Fired for Criticising Elon Musk Accuse Firm of Violating US Labour Law
SpaceX employees who were fired after have filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board, after they were fired for circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behaviour in June. details The complaint details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, amon...
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Amazon Accused of Violating US Labour Law After Union Supporters' Arrests
A group of Amazon workers seeking to form a union in New York filed a charge with US labour regulators after a high-profile organiser and a pair of employees were arrested outside a company warehouse.
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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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Apple Supplier Wistron's 'Labour Violations': 12-Hour Shifts, No Overtime
Karnataka labour department’s preliminary investigation into violence last weekend at a factory run by Apple supplier Wistron found several violations by the Taiwanese firm and its vendors, according to its report.
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Google Violated US Labour Laws in Clampdown on Worker Organising, Regulator Says
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint accusing Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers who were then fired for protesting company policies and trying to organise a union.
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Apple Puts Major Taiwanese Supplier Pegatron on Probation Over Labour Laws Violation
Apple on Monday said that its Taiwanese supplier Pegatron will not receive any news business from the technology giant after it found that Pegatron violated Apple's supplier code of conduct by asking student employees to work night shifts and overtime, and also take up work unrelated to their majors.
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Elon Musk and Tesla Violated US Federal Labour Law, Judge Rules
A US judge ruled Friday that Tesla and its chief executive, Elon Musk, broke federal labour law by targeting union activity, the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the electronic vehicle company.
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Apple, Foxconn Broke a Chinese Labour Law to Build Latest iPhones
Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn violated a Chinese labour rule by using too many temporary staff in the world’s largest iPhone factory, the companies confirmed following a report that also alleged harsh working conditions.
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Amazon Fined About $6 Million For Violating Labour Laws In US
E-commerce giant Amazon has been fined nearly $6 million for violating labour laws in the state of California in the US.
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Amnesty International Condemns Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus's Conviction By Bangladesh Court
The 83-year-old economist was on Monday sentenced to six months in jail by a court for violating the labour laws
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Nobel Peace Laureate Convicted Of Violating Bangladesh's Labour Laws
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus was convicted on Monday of violating Bangladesh's labour laws in a case decried by his supporters as politically motivated.
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Activision Blizzard Accused of Spying on Employees, Threatening Them
Activision Blizzard violated US labour law by illegally surveilling employees during a walkout and threatening to shut down internal chat channels as a union sought to organize its workers, a federal labour agency said on Friday. The Communication Workers of America union (CWA) has accused the Call of Duty maker of a series of illegal labour practi...
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Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a US labour agency has found. The National Labor Relations Board will issue a complaint targeting the policies and claiming Apple executives made comments that stymied worker organising unless the company settles first, an agency official s...
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Apple Workplace Rules Violate US Labour Law, Agency Finds
Apple Inc maintains workplace policies that unlawfully discourage employees from discussing working conditions, a U.S. labor agency has found.
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Twitter Accused by 100 Ex-Employees of Various Legal Violations After Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter on Tuesday was hit by legal complaints by 100 employees, accusing the company of legal violations from targeting women during companywide layoffs and not paying severance to fired workers. The microblogging platform now faces 100 demands for arbitration making similar claims to four class action lawsuits pending against the company in a fed...
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SpaceX Employees Fired for Criticising Elon Musk Accuse Firm of Violating US Labour Law
SpaceX employees who were fired after have filed a complaint with the US National Labor Relations Board, after they were fired for circulating an open letter calling out CEO Elon Musk’s behaviour in June. details The complaint details the aftermath of what allegedly happened inside SpaceX after employees circulated the letter in June, which, amon...
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Amazon Accused of Violating US Labour Law After Union Supporters' Arrests
A group of Amazon workers seeking to form a union in New York filed a charge with US labour regulators after a high-profile organiser and a pair of employees were arrested outside a company warehouse.
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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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Apple Supplier Wistron's 'Labour Violations': 12-Hour Shifts, No Overtime
Karnataka labour department’s preliminary investigation into violence last weekend at a factory run by Apple supplier Wistron found several violations by the Taiwanese firm and its vendors, according to its report.
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Google Violated US Labour Laws in Clampdown on Worker Organising, Regulator Says
The National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint accusing Google of unlawfully monitoring and questioning several workers who were then fired for protesting company policies and trying to organise a union.
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Apple Puts Major Taiwanese Supplier Pegatron on Probation Over Labour Laws Violation
Apple on Monday said that its Taiwanese supplier Pegatron will not receive any news business from the technology giant after it found that Pegatron violated Apple's supplier code of conduct by asking student employees to work night shifts and overtime, and also take up work unrelated to their majors.
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Elon Musk and Tesla Violated US Federal Labour Law, Judge Rules
A US judge ruled Friday that Tesla and its chief executive, Elon Musk, broke federal labour law by targeting union activity, the latest in a series of stinging rebukes to the electronic vehicle company.
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Apple, Foxconn Broke a Chinese Labour Law to Build Latest iPhones
Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn violated a Chinese labour rule by using too many temporary staff in the world’s largest iPhone factory, the companies confirmed following a report that also alleged harsh working conditions.
