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DHL North America plans to add hundreds of robots to its workforce. The robot, called Stretch, was developed by Boston Dynamics for warehouse operations in direct response to labor shortages and increasing logistics volume. A $15 million investment and multi-year agreement between DHL North America and Boston Dynamics will begin with roughly 30 Stretch robots. “Our strategy is to reduce our dependency on labor, which is hard to find in the market currently, and improve the type of positions… Source link

Google wrongly claimed attorney-client privilege to protect documents subpoenaed in a National Labor Relations Board case filed by former employees who say the company fired them because of their unionization efforts, a labor judge has ruled. The administrative law judge, Paul Bogas, whom the N.L.R.B. appointed as a special master to review the documents, said in a report on Friday that “this broad assertion is, to put it charitably, an overreach.” The ruling is the latest legal blow to… Source link

Restaurant operators and workers across the U.S. are struggling to rebound from the pandemic, and are battered by a lack of staff, skyrocketing prices and supply shortages. Paula Tejeda is one of them.  Even after mass vaccinations, customer traffic is “still very shaky,” Tejeda, the owner and founder of Chile Lindo, a deli and coffee shop in San Francisco, said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “The hospitality business, which is restaurants, small coffee shops and bars, are not back…. Source link

About 5 million Americans have exited the labor force since the pandemic began. Goldman Sachs estimates that about 3.4 million are likely gone for good due to retirements, meaning that 1.7 million people are open to returning to work. But Goldman said in a note on Nov. 11 that there is a “long-run risk” to labor force participation: a general distaste for work. The bank’s economics team pointed to the reddit thread r/Antiwork, a social media community carrying the mantra “Unemployment… Source link

Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh says the Biden administration’s new vaccine requirements will help boost the labor force participation rate. On Friday, the Labor Department said the labor force participation rate was unchanged in October, at 61.6%. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the participation rate has stayed between 61.4% and 61.7% since June 2020.  “We really have to focus on how do we bring confidence back to those folks that are just afraid of coming back,” said Walsh in… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, November 1, 2021 It was a brutal weekend for one airline and a telling weekend on the state of America’s labor shortage.  American Airlines canceled about 14.3% of its flights on Sunday, according to data shared by the company to Yahoo Finance, in large part because it was unable to find staff to carry out operations. Staffing problems… Source link

Can’t find what you need at the store again? You’re not alone. Shoppers pushing their carts around the supermarket may notice thin shelves while reaching for their favorite products, as the increasingly hits home for consumers already stung by higher prices on virtually everything. Bare store shelves were common at the start of the pandemic, driven largely by panic-buying. But almost two years in, some spaces are empty again — but for slightly different reasons. As the holiday season… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, October 22, 2021 The Great Resignation gives way to the Dee Snider workforce “We’ve got the right to choose it There ain’t no way we’ll lose it This is our life, this is our song” —“We’re Not Gonna Take It,” Twisted Sister What to make of the labor market, where unfilled jobs are near a record high, unemployment claims hit yet… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) aims to hire 150,000 seasonal employees ahead of the busiest time of year for retailers. The e-commerce giant is offering lucrative incentives to lure talent amid a supply chain crunch and tight labor market. The average salary for seasonal jobs start at $18 per hour along with sign-on bonuses up to $3,000. Despite lucrative incentives, the question is whether Amazon and other giant retailers can convince enough people to work for them amid a red hot labor market.  Competition… Source link

Jeff Arview had been kicking around in different jobs. An Army veteran who served in Iraq, after he was discharged he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and fell into addiction, which led to arrests. Moving on and getting a job was a challenge. “Even though I was a veteran, because of that criminal history, I was unable to gain employment, which made it really tough,” Arview said. At times, he fell into homelessness. Arview is far from alone. The unemployment rate among formerly… Source link