Car-Rental Startup Turo’s Safety Team Cuts Vacations Short After Deadly Attacks January 3, 2025 By Brody Ford, Spencer Soper and Katie Roof Some workers on car-rental startup Turo Inc.’s trust and safety team have interrupted vacations to monitor and respond to the...
Amazon Agrees to Worker Safety Measures to Settle US Probe December 20, 2024 By Daniel Wiessner Amazon.com will implement new safety measures at all of its U.S. facilities to settle a federal agency’s claims that it...
Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring December 19, 2024 By Josh Eidelson A group of Google Help staffers reached a union contract with their employer, Accenture Plc, securing protections on remote work...
Amazon Ignored Its Own Worker Safety Studies, Senate Report Says December 18, 2024 By Matt Day Amazon.com Inc. leaders rejected internal recommendations that the company relax warehouse worker productivity rates to curb injuries, according to a...
Sony’s Bungie Video Game Unit Sued by Top Director Who Was Fired Earlier This Year December 13, 2024 By Cecilia D'Anastasio A former top executive with Sony Group Corp.’s Bungie video-game studio sued his former employers, claiming they destroyed his reputation...
BHP, Rio Accused of Allowing Sexual Harassment on Mine Sites December 11, 2024 By Jason Scott BHP Group Ltd. and Rio Tinto Group allowed environments on their Australian mining sites where female staff faced systemic sexual...
Extreme Heat Puts Garment Factory Workers at Risk, Study Shows December 11, 2024 By Helen Reid Workers in some of the world’s biggest garment manufacturing hubs in Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Pakistan are increasingly exposed to extreme...
Apple Accused of Silencing Workers, Spying on Personal Devices December 3, 2024 By Daniel Wiessner Apple has been accused in a new lawsuit of illegally monitoring its workers’ personal devices and iCloud accounts while also...
Disney Settles Suit Over Women’s Pay for $43 Million November 26, 2024 Walt Disney agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that its female employees in California earned $150...
Ex-Managing Director Ravich Sues TCW Over Firing ‘for Cause’ November 14, 2024 By Chris Dolmetsch TCW Group Inc. was sued by former group managing director Jess Ravich, who claims the asset manager made up grounds...