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News & Commentary: August 28 - OnLabor
In today’s news and commentary, calls for a “token tax” on AI consumption grow and the number of Amazon workers receiving federal aid has tripled between 2020 and 2025. Concerns over AI’s effects ...
Read moreHigh-earning producers bound by notice and non-solicitation terms - hcamag.com
Two owners earned tens of millions - the fine print still caught them A federal appeals court has ruled that two high-earning insurance producers breached their contracts by resigning overnight and...
Read morePratt & Whitney beats gender bias claim over rejected mechanic applicant - hcamag.com
Everything looked promising until the on-site interview - then the mood shifted A certified mechanic said Pratt & Whitney all but promised her a job - then hired a man. She lost her discriminat...
Read moreCourt upholds unemployment benefits denial over HR worker's job abandonment - hcamag.com
She quit citing anxiety, turned down three full-time offers, then went unreachable for weeks An HR generalist who stopped answering her employer and skipped her own benefits hearing lost her claim ...
Read moreTribunal clears employer's duty to accommodate disability after two-year fight - hcamag.com
He insisted he was ready for work but his employer wasn't convinced For more than two years, an injured mechanic insisted he was ready to return to work. British Columbia's human rights tribunal ha...
Read morePlanned Parenthood whistleblower says she was fired after reporting illegal 28-week abortion - Heartlander News
A former Planned Parenthood executive says the abortion group fired her after she reported an illegal abortion at about 28 weeks of pregnancy. Jacqueline C. Colyer filed a 26-page complaint agains...
Read moreCourt fines transport group over gate that seriously injured a worker - hcamag.com
The group had drawn down $1.65m in government funding, then argued it couldn't afford the fine A NSW court has fined a family-run transport business over a workplace injury, after an 800-kilogram g...
Read moreTribunal rules rent charged to foreign worker was illegal wage deduction - hcamag.com
She paid her boss rent straight from her paycheque, and it wasn't legal A worker living in her employer's home was told the money taken from her pay was rent. A tribunal just ruled it was something...
Read moreAlleged download, rival hire - still not enough for this employer's case - hcamag.com
The timing, the rival hire, and the gap that stalled an employer's claim Victoria's Supreme Court struck out a software firm's claim that a rival gained from its ex-manager's alleged misuse of conf...
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Bondi shooting update: Man charged over allegedly false Bondi massacre injury claim - Nine.com.au
A man has been accused of falsely claiming he was injured in the Bondi Beach massacre and fraudulently seeking compensation. The alleged terror attack on a crowd of people celebrating Hanukkah in D...