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A group of Apple employees is pushing back against a looming deadline demanding they return to working in the office. The Financial Times has seen a petition, circulated by employee group Apple Together, requesting more flexibility around remote work. It’s in response to an edict that demanded workers return to working in the company’s Santa Clara Valley offices for at least three days a week starting September 5th, 2022. It’s the latest in a series of attempts by Apple to return to the… Source link

New York CNN Business  —  Hundreds of workers at Google-parent Alphabet are calling on the company to take steps to expand abortion protections for users and contractors in a post-Roe world, according to a statement Thursday from a union representing the workers. In the petition, which was signed by more than 650 workers at the company and addressed to several executives including Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai,… Source link

A view of the main lobby of building BV200, during a tour of Google’s new Bay View Campus in Mountain View, California, U.S. May 16, 2022. REUTERS/Peter DaSilva/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register OAKLAND, Calif., Aug 18 (Reuters) – Over 650 workers at Google owner Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) are demanding it offer abortion benefits to contractors, suspend donations to anti-abortion politicians and better protect users from abortion-related disinformation and… Source link

Bambi Okugawa is a data center technician in one of Google’s data centers in a U.S. state with one of the strictest abortion bans in the nation: Tennessee. The state will ban abortions as early as six weeks, with no exceptions for rape or incest, on Aug. 25 due to a “trigger law.” If needed, Okugawa, could get an out-of-state abortion and could even request a permanent transfer to a different Google office due to the health benefits she gets as a full-time Google employee. However, her… Source link

BackyardProduction / Getty Images/iStockphoto So far, about 2.8 million Americans have signed a petition calling for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks for every American. This petition was started by Stephanie Bonin, a Colorado restaurant owner, and was first posted on Change.org last year, reports Business Insider. See: Fourth Stimulus Checks Are Coming From These States — Is Yours on the List?Stimulus Update: States Give Out Thousands of Bonus $1,000 Checks – Will You Get One? Since gaining… Source link

Oxygen 15-Year-Old Girl Convinces Her Boyfriend To Murder Her Dad For Having Too Many Rules Parent-children relationships can be difficult — but the murder of Lewis “Lewy” Fryer exposed a dark and twisted scheme orchestrated by his own teen daughter. On the morning of May 13, 2010 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, a frantic 911 came in from a 15-year-old girl reporting she had found her father dead. “There’s blood everywhere … I’ve never seen a dead body before,” Kaleigh Fryer frantically says in audio… Source link

Google’s workers who provide childcare and education for staffers’ kids say the internet giant is summoning them back to the office without restoring the shuttle service they rely on, and they’re circulating a petition urging the Alphabet Inc. unit to provide a transportation stipend to cover commuting costs. “Shifting this cost to essential workers, who earn far less than the Googlers whose children they care for, is unacceptable,” according to the petition, which members of the… Source link

Employees from Google and other organizations are asking Google for answers about how it handled the departure of renown researcher Timnit Gebru in an online petition that had more than 2,000 signatures as of Friday afternoon. Gebru, a well-known artificial intelligence researcher, technical co-lead of Google’s “Ethical AI” team and vocal critic of tech companies’ treatment of Black workers, tweeted Wednesday night that her corporate account had been abruptly shut off after she discussed… Source link