Tag: labor
Is There a Plus Side to Mental Labor?
Opinion The Science of ParentingMondays Is There a Plus Side to Mental Labor? Women shoulder most of the work in managing a family and tell us it’s exhausting, but some also say it has benefits By Julie Holliday Wayne Cut through the claims: Get email alerts for this weekly column It’s Monday, and my alarm…
Bumble Bee Foods Is Accused of Tolerating Forced Labor in Supply Chain
In a lawsuit filed in California, the plaintiffs said that Bumble Bee Foods was aware of and benefited from abuse by suppliers. The company declined to comment. By Sui-Lee Wee and Muktita Suhartono On a ship that caught tuna for American consumers, fishermen said they were fed so little that they resorted to eating the…
Logging in forest earmarked for koala national park increasing under NSW Labor, analysis finds
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email “We were promised a world-class national park. That’s been reiterated many times since. We just want that to be done and the degradation to stop.” Conservationists have become frustrated by the time it is taking the Minns government to fulfil its election promise, finalise an assessment of…
Are reality TV stars employees? The National Labor Relations Board says yes
By Eric Deggans , Eleana Tworek NPR’s Eric Deggans asks Sonia Rao of The Washington Post about labor protections for people on reality television shows. ERIC DEGGANS, HOST: Reality TV has given us some of pop culture’s most viral moments. (SOUNDBITE OF MONTAGE) NENE LEAKES: I was shocked, honey. I was in tears almost. And…