In response to the coronavirus outbreak, thousands of companies across the U.S. are announcing layoffs and hiring freezes. But Bank of America claims they hired more than 2,000 new employees in March alone and raised their U.S. minimum hourly wage to …
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Gas prices are dropping — to less than $1 per gallon in a few locations — but most Americans aren’t supposed to go anywhere. That’s the irony of the coronavirus lockdown. The national average price for a gallon of gas is now $1.997, according to AAA, and …
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Some Instacart and Amazon warehouse workers walked off the job Monday demanding greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are speed-hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders.
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New York’s attorney general is calling for a federal labor investigation into the firing of an Amazon warehouse employee who helped organize a worker walkout on Monday. A group of warehouse workers walked off their jobs in Staten Island to demand that …
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Furloughed employees will not be paid by the company but will be eligible for unemployment benefits. Facebook; Twitter; Comments; Print; Email. By Daniella GenoveseFOXBusiness. close. FOX Business’ Lauren Simonetti on how Gap and SeaWorld are …
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