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NY AG sues Amazon over treatment of warehouse workers

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit alleging that Amazon failed to provide adequate safety health and safety measures in two New York facilities, and that it unlawfully discipl

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'I was raped inside Australia's parliament': Ex-staffer breaks silence

Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, February 5, 2021. /CFP Breaking the silence"I was raped inside parliament." It took Brittany Higgins two years to break her silence. The 26-year-old, w

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Meet the Black Female Founders from TC Include at TC Sessions: Justice 2021

On March 3, we’re hosting TC Sessions: Justice 2021, a day-long virtual conference dedicated to examining diversity and inclusion in tech. Tune in to presentations, panel discussions, breakout session

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Human Capital: Doing away with the NDA

You’ve landed on Human Capital, a weekly newsletter detailing the latest in diversity, equity, inclusion and labor. Sign up here to receive the newsletter every Friday at 1 p.m. PT.There’s

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Australian Open can continue without fans despite lockdown

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Intenseye raises $4M to boost workplace safety through computer vision

Workplace injuries and illnesses cost the U.S. upwards of $250 billion each year, according to the Economic Policy Institute. ERA-backed startup Intenseye, a machine learning platform, has raised a $4

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PepsiCo gets rid of 'Aunt Jemima' for a new name

The 132-year-old "Aunt Jemima" breakfast product line will now be known as "Pearl Milling Company" as owner PepsiCo attempts to remove the racial stereotype that the brand has perpetuated. /The Q

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Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed

The founders of Accord, an early stage startup focused on bringing order to B2B sales, are not your typical engineer founders. Instead, the two brothers, Ross and Ryan Rich, worked as sales reps seein

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WeWork is apparently doing better, not that SoftBank wants you to talk about that

SoftBank’s earnings always leads to a bonanza of news. One storyline that has dominated the company’s earnings over the past few years that has all but disappeared though is WeWork.The co-working comp

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AstraZeneca jab's 'limited' protection from new COVID-19 variant

01:49 New data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab offers only limited protection against the variant discovered in South Africa and now appearing in communities across the UK. It stil

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Amazon warehouse workers begin historic vote to unionize

On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board rejected Amazon’s attempt to delay a union vote set to begin on Monday, February 8. For many, the online giant’s bid was seen as a stalling tactic, includ

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An arresting series

Police officer Zhang Peng never imagined that he would one day have to deal with the widespread recognition that comes with fame. Many have flocked to his workplace, the Pozijie police station in C

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Why Europeans are still disenchanted with the U.S.

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Indonesia's COVID-19 cases pass 1-million mark amid vaccination drive

Indonesia has registered more than one million confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the first coronavirus infection was confirmed in the country in March last year, amid t

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Donald Trump will be acquitted? Think again!

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Hear leading voices discuss workplace organizing in tech at TC Sessions: Justice on March 3

In a year defined by economic and civil unrest, it should come as little surprise that workplace organizing has been on the upswing. The COVID-19 pandemic in particular (coupled with the ever-present

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Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

In an unprecedented work environment defined by distributed teams and virtual-only communication, two co-founders think their 2018 bet reigns truer than ever: mentors need mentorship, too.Christine Ta