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OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic

ChatGPT was hailed as one 2022’s most impressive technological innovations upon its release last November. The powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot can generate text on almost any topic or theme, …

Noncompete Clauses: What Are They and How Is the FTC Trying to Ban Them?

Should your employer be able to stop you from getting a new job? If you have a summer internship, for example, should the company be able to prevent you from …

US: The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority May Sabotage Unions’ Right to Strike

Glacier Northwest is an attack on workers’ collective power. It also has frightening implications for American democracy. Remember those pesky analogy questions on the SAT? Here’s one for you, straight from …

U.S. Moves to Bar Noncompete Agreements in Labor Contracts

In a far-reaching move that could raise wages and increase competition among businesses, the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday unveiled a rule that would block companies from limiting their employees’ …

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Labor contractor sentenced for forced labor conspiracy of H-2A workers

Bladimir Moreno, owner of farm labor contracting business Los Villatoros Harvesting LLC, has been sentenced for leading a federal racketeering and forced labor conspiracy that targeted Mexican H-2A agricultural workers …

Movement grows to abolish US prison labor system that treats workers as ‘less than human’

More than 150 years after slavery was outlawed in the US, California remains one of dozens of states in the country that allows slavery and indentured servitude as a punishment …

Significant NLRB Move Will Aid Pursuit of College Athletes Becoming Employees

In an interview last January, ESPN lead football analyst Kirk Herbstreit made a proclamation: You might as well make college athletes employees. “I say we’re on a path to unionization,” …

Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation d/b/a Tobin Center for the Performing Arts and Local 23, American Federation of Musicians (Bexar II)

The Board issued a decision in Bexar County II, restoring the rights of workers employed by a contractor to engage in protected concerted activity in their workplace. The new decision overturns Bexar County …

Biden Labor Board Relaxes Standard for Access to Property

The NLRB dumped its Trump-era legal test for deciding when property owners can lawfully exclude employees of contractors, reinstating an earlier standard that gives those workers more leeway to protest …

Workers entitled to more money from employers who break the law – labor board

 The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday said employers must compensate workers for “direct or foreseeable” financial harms, such as credit card debt and out-of-pocket medical expenses, that result …

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