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Ben Gwin works for Google Shopping in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though he is technically a temporary worker at the tech giant, Gwin and 65 of his colleagues are now represented by the United Steelworkers union. The group of workers ratified their first union contract in July after two years at the bargaining table with their contractor, HCL America Inc. The contract victory was historic in an industry that has aggressively opposed union drives, especially among temp and contracted employees.

But last year, in an company email, a Google manager said it appeared that there were 16 additional countries, including Brazil, Canada, Australia and Mexico, with some form of equal treatment laws for temps that the company had not properly recognized and had not taken any extra steps to be compliant with the local laws. As more countries implement new regulations, Google is being forced to take action. The Netherlands passed a new law in 2019 that required Google’s staffing agencies to… 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 Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Job openings continue to explode The number of jobs open in America continues to explode.  On Monday, the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) for June showed some 10.1 million jobs were open at last check, a record for the series which dates back to 2001. This marks the fourth straight month this series has… Source link

Drug tests are no longer required for most jobs in the municipal offices for Isle, Minnesota, a small town tucked on the southeastern corner of the Mille Lacs Lake. The reason? The town’s liquor store needs just one more person so that its owner, Don Graber, can stop working double shifts on the weekend. “There’s a lot of things that are scaring away potential hires and that was one of them,” Graber told Yahoo Finance. Graber successfully lobbied the town to eliminate the drug test, a… Source link

A top Federal Reserve policymaker cautioned that skyrocketing home prices could jeopardize progress on recovering the millions of American jobs lost in the pandemic. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren told Yahoo Finance Friday that the hot real estate market is “not at a point where we should be panicked.” But Rosengren said the Great Depression and other downturns were examples of economic expansions that died at the hands of a real estate bubble. “The last thing we… Source link

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is giving a thumbs up to the May jobs report, but acknowledges it will take some time for the labor market to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.  “There is no question there is still a ways to go in still dealing with the pandemic from all of the job loss at the beginning of the pandemic,” Walsh said on Yahoo Finance Live.  The Labor Department reported Friday that non-farm payrolls increased by 559,000, falling shy of Wall Street’s estimates for a… Source link

Red Robin CEO Paul Murphy is banking on the labor shortage plaguing his chain — along with most in the fast food industry — ending well before year end.  “We see it [labor shortage] being under control and stabilized by early summer,” Murphy said on Yahoo Finance Live.  Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (RRGB) has had to reduce hours at some locations because of the inability to find new workers in an economy roaring back from the COVID-19 pandemic. In turn, that has weighed on sales for Red… Source link

Despite increased vaccinations and easing coronavirus restrictions, the U.S. economy is experiencing a labor crunch that’s prompting a number of companies to hike wages, in part to attract needed workers. The strong COVID-19 rebound has lit a fire under the economy, but April’s weak jobs figures stoked a furious debate about whether enhanced unemployment benefits were behind the worker shortage. As a result, a handful of states like Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, and South Carolina, have… Source link

After a hugely disappointing April jobs report, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh rejected claims from Republicans and some businesses that enhanced unemployment benefits are keeping workers from going back to work.  The Labor Department reported the U.S economy added back just 266,000 jobs last month, sharply missing economists’ expectations of 1 million.  “266,000 jobs under normal circumstances — and we’re certainly not living in normal circumstances — would be a good month,” said… Source link

Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, May 6, 2021 One year after carnage, the strongest labor market on record.  The April jobs report tomorrow morning should be a barnburner. But outside of a big number for job gains last month — consensus estimates are that nonfarm payrolls grew by 995,000 last month, according to the latest data from Bloomberg — we also see a labor market recovery that continues to be an almost… Source link