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The External Workforces Helping Manufacturing Move Forward

The use of temporary workers, contractors, consultants, and freelancers dealing with furloughs and layoffs could help boost the manufacturing workforce.

Coca-Cola Laying Off 2,200 Workers

Coke is reducing its brands by half to 200.

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Idaho Potato Grower, Transporter to Pay $69K in Back Wages

Workers weren't paid at overtime rates, were paid at a lower rate than H-2A workers performing the same work and weren't reimbursed for travel expenses.

In this Jan. 7, 2021 photo, farmers take out a tractor rally in a protest against new farm laws at Ghaziabad, outskirts of New Delhi, India.

Stalemate Persists Between Indian Farmers, Government

OSHA Bumps Up Violation Penalties

Farmers listen to a speaker as they block a major highway in protest against new farm laws, at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border, India on Jan. 8.

Indian Farmers, Government Still at Stalemate

A 'Now Hiring,' sign is shown in the window of a restaurant in Miami Beach, Fla. America's employers likely cut back on hiring last month, and may have even shed jobs, as the economy suffers from a resurgent virus.

US Loses 140,000 Jobs, the First Monthly Loss Since Spring

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Condiment Maker Gold’s Pure Foods to Close NY Plant

The closure will lay off 48 employees.

Uproar After Company Sends 'Test' Email Promising Bogus Bonuses

The company received some harsh feedback on social media.

A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, it has been identified as a problem by human rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government.

Girl Scout Cookie Palm Oil Linked to Child Labor

Palm oil is contained in roughly half the products on supermarket shelves and in almost three out of every four cosmetic brands.

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Can Employers Require Workers to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine?

5 questions answered.

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Performance Food Group to Pay $5M to Settle Sex Bias Case

The national food distributor reportedly systematically refused to hire women for operative positions at its broadline facilities.

U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is seen at the U.S. Capitol at night after negotiators sealed a deal for COVID relief Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Washington.

Congress Seals Agreement on $900B COVID Relief Bill

The relief package would establish a temporary $300 per week supplemental jobless benefit and a $600 direct stimulus payment to most Americans.

A vendor sells nativity figurines, in a Christmas market where organizers were still deciding if they would close at 5 p.m., in accordance with a new state mandate intended to help slow the spread of COVID-19, in Ecatepec, Mexico State, on the outskirts of Mexico City on Dec. 14.

Mexico's Minimum Wage to Rise 15% in January

The increase still amounts to less than $1 per hour but is well above the country’s current 3.3 percent inflation rate.

Man Pleads Guilty in COVID-19 Doctor's Note Fraud

This wasn't even the worst fraud he committed against his employer.

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Oregon Ag Operators Pay 11K in Back Wages to Workers Denied COVID Sick Leave

Three operators wrongly denied paying sick leave to employees whose healthcare providers advised them to self-quarantine following possible COVID-19 exposure.

Protesting farmer leaders shout slogans as they sit on a day-long hunger strike at the Delhi- Haryana border on outskirts of New Delhi on Monday, Dec.14.

Indian Farmers Call for Monday Protest; 2nd in a Week

Their blockades press for the quashing of three new laws on agricultural reform that they say will drive down crop prices and devastate their earnings.

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Louisiana Crawfish Processor Pays $43K in Back Wages to 55 Workers

Two companies with the same owner failed to provide after some workers tested positive for COVID-19.

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DoL Recovers $172K in Back Wages for 127 Peanut Industry Workers

Five firms were involved between Texas and New Mexico.