- Anneke Lucas claims she was forced to work as a sex slave for a sick aristocratic elite in Europe https://youtu.be/3jrlfzgb2tm 19 comments europe
- A labor reform law came into force on Monday, setting a legal cap on long work hours to change Japan's notorious overwork culture blamed for causing sickness and deaths. https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan-introduces-legal-cap-on-long-work-hours-under-labor-reform-law 5 comments worldnews
- A labor reform law came into force on Monday, setting a legal cap on long work hours to change Japan's notorious overwork culture blamed for causing sickness and deaths. https://japantoday.com/category/business/japan-introduces-legal-cap-on-long-work-hours-under-labor-reform-law 82 comments worldnews
- Forced to Work Sick? That's Fine With Disney, Red Lobster, and Their Friends at ALEC. America's one of the only industrialized nations that doesn't mandate paid sick leave. These guys want to keep it that way. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/paid-sick-leave-florida-disney-alec 2837 comments politics
- Tyson Foods Accused Of Betting Money On How Many Workers Would Contract COVID-19. The lawsuit is tied to an Iowa pork plant where more than 1,000 workers became sick and at least five died of the virus after being forced to report for work. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tyson-foods-iowa-wrongful-death-lawsuit-betting-accusation-coronavirus_n_5fb5f1f7c5b664958c7d9414 15 comments politics
- Meatpacking Workers With COVID-19 Symptoms Are Still Being Forced to Work. Throughout the pandemic, the meatpacking industry has treated its workers as disposable. And even now, as cases spike again, workers are being forced to show up even if they could be sick with COVID-19. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/meatpacking-tyson-covid-symptoms-work 4 comments politics
- One of Britain’s biggest providers of agency care workers has been fining staff who phone in sick £50, raising concerns that frontline employees are being forced to turn up for shifts when they are not fit for work and risk spreading illnesses to vulnerable patients. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/23/british-care-company-fines-workers-50-for-calling-in-sick 1794 comments worldnews
- In 1986 Reagan "lowered" taxes, but in order to offset the reduced income with his huge increase in defense spending, he enacted a tax on unemployment benefits. Reagan lowered taxes on the rich, and then forced out of work people to pay more taxes. What a sick fuck. http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/09/03/perspectives/opinion/doc4b4f7fdcd1de3678132564.txt 341 comments politics
- Sick of being held back by red tape, a group of ex-military combatants have come together to form a dedicated task force for traveling the globe to rescue children who have been sold into sex slavery. They work with local government and offer their services free of charge. https://www.operationundergroundrailroad.org 61 comments worldnews