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Employee burnout is, without a doubt, one of the top business news items of the year. In a recent report from employee benefits provider The Hartford, 61 percent of U.S. workers said they were experiencing burnout at work, including 68 percent of women and 52 percent of men.
Workers at chains like Starbucks, Chipotle, and McDonald’s face opposition when trying to form unions. Civil Eats goes inside one recent NYC worker protest at Chipotle.
Chipotle employees in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Chipotle employees in New York City are striking on Sunday to protest working
In an opinion issued Monday, a Southern District of New York judge granted summary judgment in favor of Starbucks, rejecting a former store manager's
In Upstate New York, immigrant dairy hands lobbied the state to amend its labor laws so people who milk cows could rely on the minimum wage and overtime. In Dallas, after an immigrant construction worker died of heat stroke, day laborers and non-union building trades workers persuaded the city to pass an ordinance requiring rest breaks. In Philadelphia and in other cities and states around the ...