The “dumb” coronavirus panic, as Elon Musk once called it, is finally coming back to bite Musk in the ass. After a report yesterday that several Tesla employees had tested positive for coronavirus, possibly as a result of Elon Musk keeping his Fremont factory open far longer than he should have, Tesla has only now started to furlough some workers due to a “drop in demand” […]
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In what is likely to become a trend around the country, California’s Public Employees Retirement System just watched $69 billion go up in smoke as the coronavirus panic has gripped global markets. CALPERS total fund balance is now about $335 billion, down from a record high of $404 billion only one month ago. CALPERS administers pensions for about 1,500 local governments around the state, as well […]
A growing chorus of U.S. states have directed “blockchain managers” in food and agriculture to keep working through their states’ respective COVID-19 shutdowns. The governors of Michigan, Massachusetts, Delaware, Ohio, Louisiana, California, Indiana and Washington state had all issued stay-at-home exemptions for blockchain managers by Tuesday afternoon, covering some 88 million residents currently or soon to be sheltering in place. The orders by governors and their […]
Forget exotic fruits and rare liqueurs, talented Los Angeles bartender Gabe Briseno often finds inspiration in one of the most common pantry staples: honey. “Most bartenders nowadays use simple syrup as a sweetener,” says Briseno, who currently works at the California outpost of Employees Only. “But honey is also a good one that you can just add a dash of and it just changes the whole […]
Marriott International, Inc., the world’s largest hotel company, announced on Sunday that it would furlough two-thirds of its workforce due to economic pressures from the coronavirus pandemic. The furlough will include two-thirds of the 4,000 employees at Marriott’s headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland and two-thirds of the 174,000 employees around the world, according to a report by Fox News. The furloughed employees will be paid only 20 […]
Two more employees of Fox News Media have tested positive for COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, according to an email a Fox News spokesperson sent to Mediaite Saturday evening. The email included a message that was sent company-wide to all Fox News employees sharing the news of the two new cases. This brings the total number of Fox News employees with known positive coronavirus tests […]
The head of the company that owns the former Gizmodo Media Group sites sent a dire email to staff on Saturday telling employees that the company will “experience some pain” due to the coronavirus-related economic downturn. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller, who oversees digital media websites including The Root, Jezebel, Gizmodo, and Jalopnik among others, sent an email to staff on Saturday titled “Brace For Impact.” […]
With Gov. Cuomo ordering virtually every New Yorker to go home and only non-essential businesses to stay open, one would think Wall Street trading desks would be a ghost town right about now. After all, shuffling pieces of digital paper with an arbitrary value back and forth can hardly be considered essential work, even in the financial capital of the world, especially when most of this […]
Qatar has removed exit visa requirements for an additional segment of its foreign labour force, including some of those working in the oil and gas industry, according to official tweets posted on Friday, Reuters reports. Qatar in 2018 eliminated exit visas for many foreign migrant workers. But the reform did not apply to domestic workers, government and public institution staff, the oil and gas sector, and […]
Well, it looks like Elon Musk has once again “gotten away with it”. Yesterday, we updated the world on the situation in Alameda County, where despite an order to lockdown all non-essential businesses, Elon Musk has kept his Fremont facility open. The Alameda County Sheriff even took to Twitter to warn that Tesla was “not an essential business” and would be expected to follow the same […]
Zero Hedge readers have likely been following the ongoing saga involving Tesla, where it appeared as of today that Elon Musk was going to keep the company’s Fremont factory open despite an Alameda County order requiring businesses to lockdown due to the coronavirus. We also commented earlier today on why this crisis could be the end of America’s love affair with Elon Musk. Now, it looks […]
Facebook is giving every employee a $1,000 bonus in order to help with bills during the coronavirus outbreak, according to The Information. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the cash relief in an early Tuesday internal company notice, adding that he wants to support employees working from home due to the pandemic, according to two people familiar with the matter. As we reported yesterday, a government plan to […]
Employees of Greece’s asylum agency are on strike due to “terrible” conditions in the country’s Moria refugee camp on Lesbos Island, Anadolu Agency reports. Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Irini Zanni, one of the employees, said the Moria camp was in “terrible” condition and called for more “humane” treatment of the refugees and asylum seekers held there. Zanni said that the refugees and asylum seekers were living under “unbelievable” […]
Norwegian Air slashed 4,000 flights and will lay off at least half of its employees, according to a company press release. Jacob Schram, CEO of Norwegian, said: “This is an unprecedented situation and our main priority continues to be the care and safety of our customers and colleagues. The new restrictions imposed further pressure on an already difficult situation. We urge international governments to act now […]
For employees of the company behind the world’s most inescapable search engine, the explosion of 2019 novel coronavirus has been felt in a variety of ways. No dry cleaning. No office barista. No gourmet meals. Google has advised all its employees in North American, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East to work from home until (at least) April 10 to curb the spread of COVID-19, the […]
Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images CBS News sent out a memo to New York staff on Wednesday telling them to work from home after two employees tested positive for the coronavirus. “We have learned that two employees — one working on the 5th floor of the 513 building of the Broadcast Center and another on the 9th floor of 555 West 57th Street — tested positive for Coronavirus […]
Truthdig Employees Stop Work To Protest Labor Conditions By Amelia Pang, Popular Resistance. March 11, 2020 Truthdig Employees Stop Work To Protest Labor Conditions2020-03-112020-03-11https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/03/strikersforscheer_3-e1583950310744.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Mr. Fish. California – Senior editors and contributors at Truthdig, including Executive Editor Kasia Anderson, Managing Editor, Jacob Sugarman, Foreign Editor Natasha Hakimi Zapata and Book Editor Eunice Wong, along with columnists Chris Hedges, Lee Camp and Paul Street […]
If one of your hedge fund’s star portfolio managers catches the coronavirus during a fundraising visit or some other work-related outing (whether to Scores or a classier strip club), that’s one thing. But if one of the gremlins in the back office exposes the entire floor to an economy-crushing virus, well, let’s just say that employee’s relationship with his coworkers – especially the money-makers (or losers) […]
Following the announcements of the deaths of Ali Khalafi, the deputy head of Iran’s all-powerful Judiciary, and Hussein Sheikh Al-Islam, adviser to the minister of foreign affairs, Fatima Rahbar, a deputy of the city of Tehran, has fallen into a coma after she also contracted the coronavirus, reported Iranian media on Friday. Tasnim News Agency revealed that Rahbar’s condition is “very serious”. Abdolnaser Hemmati, the governor of […]
Authored by Daniel Zhao via GlassDoor.com, With the coronavirus outbreak continuing to spread around the world, employees and employers are already responding. On Glassdoor, we’re seeing several new jobs coming online showing how certain organizations are preparing to tackle the virus, while employees in different countries are commenting on what they’re hearing from their employers to keep safe. In this post, we briefly examine evidence of […]
The Palestinian Authority has denied reports that it is planning to make 8,000 of its employees in Gaza take early retirement, sources at the Ministry of Finance have told Al-Watan Voice. “We have not issued any statement about this,” the sources insisted. “All that has been published in this regard is propaganda and baseless claims.” The statement was issued after several local media outlets mentioned a […]
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Groups of people descended on homes of three Russia’s Sputnik agency staffers in Ankara, Turkey, chanting “Turkey for the Turks” and accusing journalists of treason for working for Moscow, RT Editor-in-Chief reported on Twitter. What appears to be a coordinated attack on Sputnik employees in the Turkish capital was first reported by Margarita Simonyan, RT and Sputnik’s Editor-in-Chief on Saturday, and later confirmed by the agency […]
The White House published a memo signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday granting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper the authority to ignore the collective bargaining rights of civilian employees working for the Defense Department. According to the memo, which was published in the federal register more than three weeks after it was signed, Trump is allowing Esper to end the collective bargaining rights enshrined in federal […]