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☆ Opinion | Part-Time Employees: The Plight of the Mistreated
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Part-Time Work Has a New, Predatory Logic,” by Adelle Waldman (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 20):This essay resonated with me. After retiring from academia and relocating to Maine, I took a part-time seasonal position at one of Maine’s iconic retailers. A way to get out of the house — and out of a significant other’s way a few days a week. The other group was consistent with the employees described in Ms. Waldman’s essay: people who needed the income and who juggled more than one part-time job, always desperate for more hours. In retail environments, the seasonal, part-time sales representatives are the public face of the company.

Persons: Adelle Waldman Locations: Maine

☆ Opinion | Adelle Waldman’s Journey From Brooklyn Literati to a Big Box Store
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-04 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But instead of capitalizing on her sudden stardom, Waldman didn’t publish another novel for more than a decade. “To my surprise, I just didn’t have another idea,” she told me over lunch near her house in the Hudson Valley town of Rhinebeck. Especially after the shock of Donald Trump’s election, she lost interest in exploring the romantic and psychological struggles of the upper middle class. At first, her shift started at 6 a.m.; then management abruptly changed it to two hours earlier. While “Nathaniel P.” had delighted me with its uncanny familiarity, this new novel thrilled me for the opposite reason.

Persons: Adelle, Nathaniel P, Obama, cads, Waldman didn’t, ”, Donald Trump’s, “ I’ve, “ Nathaniel P, Waldman Organizations: Love Affairs, Ivy, Target Locations: York, Brooklyn, Hudson, Rhinebeck

One of the lesser-known problems facing many low-wage workers in America is unpredictable and scarce work hours — something the writer Adelle Waldman knows firsthand. She worked at a big-box store for six months to research her latest novel, about a group of employees plotting to overthrow their bad boss. In this audio essay, Waldman explains how her experience exposed her to the way inflexible hours can wreak havoc in people’s lives, from lack of health insurance to the inability to pick up a second job. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication in the audio player above.)

Persons: Adelle Waldman, Waldman Locations: America

☆ Opinion | It’s Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Adelle Waldman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Most of my co-workers had been at the store for years, but almost all of them were, like me, part time. This meant that the store had no obligation to give us a stable number of hours or to adhere to a weekly minimum. The unpredictability of the hours made life difficult for my co-workers — as much as, if not more than, the low pay did. On receiving a paycheck for a good week’s work, when they’d worked 39 hours, should they use the money to pay down debt? Or should they hold on to it in case the following week they were scheduled for only four hours and didn’t have enough for food?

Persons: we’d, they’d Locations: America, New York

(AP) — A Nebraska lawmaker who tanked an effort last year by his fellow Republicans to pass a near-total abortion ban has given top priority this year to a bill that would allow abortions beyond the state's 12-week ban in cases of fatal fetal anomalies. The bill by state Sen. Merv Riepe would amend Nebraska’s 12-week abortion ban, passed last year, to allow abortions in cases when a fetus is unable to survive outside the womb. The diagnosis and abortion must come before 20 weeks of pregnancy — a timeline consistent with Nebraska's previous 20-week ban on abortions. In Nebraska, advocates are trying to collect about 125,000 signatures needed by July 5 to put a constitutional amendment before voters to protect abortion rights until fetal viability. On the national stage, Democrats see the issue of abortion rights as a major driver in a presidential election year.

Persons: LINCOLN, Sen, Merv Riepe, Roe, Wade, Kate Cox, Riepe, ” Riepe, “, Adelle Burk, Burk, “ They're, ” Organizations: —, U.S, Texas Supreme, Democrat, Nebraska, Republican Locations: Neb, Nebraska, U.S ., Texas

☆ Recognizing the rights of climate refugees is the first step to relocating the millions of vulnerable island-nation residents who could be displaced in the next 3 decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( Christine Jean-Baptiste | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

This article is part of "Journey Toward Climate Justice," a series exploring the systemic inequities of the climate crisis. By 2050, the World Bank estimates that climate change could force 216 million people to be displaced from their homes within their own countries. Climate change is thought to be one of several contributors to the wildfires — as droughts increased in the region, vegetation dried, creating dry conditions conducive to fires. Migration and the climate crisis are inextricably linked, climate experts say. "People shouldn't be forced to leave home because of climate change," Francis said.

Persons: Peace, Ama Francis, PATRICK T, FALLON, Kaniela Ing, Ing, Adelle Thomas, ProPublica, Tamir Kalifa, Francis, Thomas, Kayly Ober, Hurricane, Scott Olson, Hurricane Dorian, Trump, Mark Morgan, Donald Trump, Biden, Ike, Hanna, Gideon Mendel, Corbis, shouldn't Organizations: Bank, Service, Institute for Economics, International Refugee Assistance, University of the, New York Times, The Washington, Getty, Refugee, US Institute of Peace, Border, Assistance Locations: Caribbean, Pacific, Maui, Hawaii, University of the Bahamas, Lahaina, Bahamas, Marsh Harbour, United States, Haiti

☆ Mark Cuban rejected this 'Shark Tank' company—and said he'd take its ideas to one of its competitors
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

You don't often see an investor taking an entrepreneur's idea and giving it to a competitor, but that's exactly what Mark Cuban did on Friday's episode of ABC's "Shark Tank." During the episode, Justin Crowe pitched his 3-year-old cremation alternative startup Parting Stone to investors, including Cuban. Eterneva currently focuses on turning ashes into diamonds, and Cuban viewed Parting Stones' offerings as a great second product line. Lori Greiner called Parting Stones "genius," and Kevin O'Leary said the category was right up his alley. Crowe rejected them all, saying that Parting Stone had both direct-to-consumer sales and business-to-business sales through funeral homes — and he'd only pay royalties from the consumer side.

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