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☆ A Comfort Inn hotel in Tennessee employed 2 children under the age of 12, the labor department says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, employed two children under the age of 12, the DOL said. The operators of the Comfort Inn hotel also paid some workers below the minimum wage, it said. The DOL said in the lawsuit that since at least March 2021, Pigeon Forge Hospitality had employed "oppressive child labor" by hiring two minors under the age of 12. It had also employed a 15-year-old to perform baking and cooking activities that weren't allowed for their age group. The lawsuit doesn't state the name of the hotel, but the DOL press release said that Pigeon Forge Hospitality and Patel operated a Comfort Inn hotel in the city.

☆ Here's why people shouldn't freak out yet about losing their jobs to AI automation
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

As AI tools revolutionize business, workers are worried they're at risk of losing their jobs. "We've been deploying automation technology for centuries, and as of 2023, pretty much every human who wants a job has a job," Smith wrote. Yet Noah Smith, the writer behind the popular Noahpinion economics newsletter, contended in a post on Monday that people shouldn't worry about losing their jobs to automation just yet. In his post, Smith examined several studies on job automation over the years from researchers at firms ranging from Citibank to PriceWaterHouseCoopers. Assessing "replacement" is often subjectiveSmith also pointed the subjectivity used in older studies for assessing a job's risk of replacement.

☆ Black Americans are more likely to be working than white Americans for the first time on record
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Jason Lalljee | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

In March, the Black employment-population ratio was above the white employment-population ratio for the first time since at least 1972. The unemployment rate for Black Americans also hit a record low of 5.0% in March. The employment-population ratio measures the share of a group that has a job, meaning that for the first time on record, Black Americans are more likely to currently be working than white Americans. Additionally, the unemployment rate for Black Americans fell by 0.7 percentage points to 5.0% in March, the lowest rate on record, according to Black unemployment data starting in 1972. Which is what makes March's low unemployment rate for Black Americans, and a higher employment-population ratio than the white employment-population ratio, so novel.

☆ A worker's leg had to be amputated after he fell into an industrial blender, the labor department says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A worker in Ohio fell into an industrial blender and had to have his leg amputated, the DOL said. Following an investigation, the OSHA proposed penalties of $1.9 million for Zwanenberg Food Group. OSHA said cleaning staff weren't trained on how to ensure equipment was isolated during maintenance. The DOL said staff weren't trained to lock the equipment prior to cleaning so it didn't move during maintenance. Cleaning staff weren't given information about wearing appropriate eye protection and weren't trained on how to ensure equipment was isolated, OSHA found.

Since then, the ways we work have shifted dramatically, and it's time for retirement to catch up. Small businesses are less inclined to provide retirement plans. There are seasonal workers, gig workers, freelance workers, independent contractors, and recognition of the work of caregivers. The pension system and other retirement plans need to address the inherent inequities of previous centuries. Most large corporations still offer sponsor retirement plans, but many employees aren't eligible because of years of service and vesting requirements.

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☆ ChatGPT will most likely impact your job if you work in tech, went to college, and make up to $80,000 a year, research says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Most American jobs are at risk of being impacted by AI like ChatGPT, researchers found. Educated, white-collar workers making up to $80,000 a year will be most affected by AI, per the study. Some jobs likely to be impacted include financial analysts, accountants, and writers. More specifically, the researchers wanted to find out which jobs are most likely to be "exposed" to the model's capabilities. The impact of AI on jobs increases as salaries gets closer to $80,000.

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☆ The White House is cracking down on companies illegally using migrant children to fill the labor shortage as 15-year-olds pack Cheerios and 13-year-olds change your hotel sheets
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The New York Times reported last week that companies across the US are exploiting the labor of migrant children. The investigation comes as multiple states seek to loosen child labor laws to address the labor shortage. The Times reported that the use of child labor is prevalent across a number of prominent brands in the US, highlighting J. The Labor Department has found some of these companies, such as ice cream staple Ben & Jerrys, guilty of child labor violations before. Economists say that during a labor shortage, paring back child labor laws is a common phenomenon in the US.

☆ 4 Florida restaurants with the same owner had to give over $250,000 of back pay to staff after the Department of Labor said they only paid servers tips
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Four Florida restaurants were ordered to pay $253,044 to 93 workers following an investigation. The DOL said the restaurants didn't pay wages to servers or pay other workers overtime. According to court filings viewed by Insider, the restaurants were asked to pay back wages for a period of around three years and 10 months. Tipped workers, like servers, have to take home at least $7.98 an hour in pay from the restaurant, with the rest made up in tips. The four Florida restaurants paid staff straight time for all hours worked, the DOL said.

☆ McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania broke child labor laws, with kids under 16 operating deep fryers, Labor Department says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

McDonald's locations in Pennsylvania employed more than 150 teenagers at hours prohibited by federal law. Children under the age of 16 were operating deep fryers, according to the US Department of Labor. In 2022, more than 3,800 children were found to be employed in violation of federal law; in 2012, that number was just over 1,600. Nine children were also found to be operating deep fryers before the legally required minimum age of 16. "The bottom line is that there is no excuse for jeopardizing young workers' safety or hindering their educational opportunities."

☆ Sanitation company pays $1.5 million penalty for hiring children for 'hazardous' factory work like cleaning beef bone saws, officials say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The US Labor Department filed a complaint against PSSI following a three-month investigation into unlawful child labor claims in November. PSSI was charged $1.5 million in penalties as a result of the investigation, officials said. The department accused the sanitation contractor of having employees as young as 13 working "hazardous" overnight shifts. The DOL filed a complaint seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction against the food safety sanitation service following its investigation. The company added that no children are currently employed, and many hadn't worked for the business in years.

☆ More than 100 children worked in dangerous conditions at slaughterhouse cleaning firm: US Labor Department
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-17 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The Kieler, Wisconsin, based company employed the children to clean meat processing equipment including back saws, brisket saws and head splitters. The company said none of the underage workers are employed at the company today, and that “many” of them had worked there years ago. In November, a complaint was filed in the US District Court of Nebraska alleging that Packers Sanitation illegally employed at least 31 children to clean dangerous power equipment. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order barring the company from committing further child labor law violations. In December, Packers agreed to take “significant steps” to comply with labor laws after entering into a consent order and judgment.

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☆ One chart shows that a much-feared wave of mass layoffs has yet to crash into the US economy
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Despite widely-covered job cuts at some big companies, mass layoffs have yet to emerge in the broader economy. The Department of Labor data shows that there hasn't been a large climb in US initial jobless claims. Instead, seasonally adjusted claims have been relatively low week after week, unlike back in March 2020 when claims soared and peaked in early April. That strongly suggests that the overall US economy isn't seeing the kind of large-scale layoffs that typically mark a recession. And data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) program also shows shows layoffs in the US have been low.

Math is important, but there are still plenty of ways to make a living without it. Here are 24 high-paying jobs to check out. Luckily, there are plenty of high-paying jobs out there for the numerically-averse. O*NET ranks how important "using mathematics to solve problems" is in any job, assigning each a "math importance level" between 1 and 100. Here, in reverse order of median salary, are 24 high-paying positions with a math-importance level of 31 or less:

☆ Hospitals rely on volunteers for $5 billion a year of free work — and some could be violating federal labor laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Lauren Sausser | Kaiser Health News | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The US health system benefits from potentially over $5 billion in free volunteer labor annually. Like paid employees, hospital volunteers typically face mandatory vaccine requirements, background checks, and patient privacy training. Hedges was furloughed for the better part of six months when hospital volunteers were sent home in March 2020. Nonprofit and for-profit hospitals alike benefit from volunteersNonprofit hospitals must follow federal labor laws, too. Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide a benefit to their communities, such as offering charity care, in exchange for their special tax status.

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☆ How much TikTok pays employees, according to salary data
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Insider combed through public data to get a snapshot of how much TikTok pays US employees. TikTok and owner ByteDance has offered base salaries between $29 an hour and $438,000 a year. Insider updated its analysis of how much TikTok employees make in the US, based on 1,135 US work-visa applications with salary data for more than 500 different jobs. The data includes base salaries only, not forms of compensation such as stock options or cash bonuses. It shows, for example, that TikTok offers $100,000 per year or more for certain content-operations roles, and that ByteDance offers as much as $200,000 per year for software engineers for its AR-effects platform.

☆ TikTok salaries revealed: How much the company pays for key US jobs in engineering, product, data science, and more
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Insider analyzed US work-visa data to gauge salary levels at TikTok and parent company ByteDance. The data show TikTok and ByteDance offered staffers on US work visas $29 an hour to $438,000 a year. The public data show how much the company offered to pay foreign staffers it sought to hire in the US for jobs including product, engineering, and data-science roles. Based on the data, TikTok and ByteDance offered from late 2020 to late 2022 base salaries ranging from $29 per hour to $438,000 per year for various roles. We listed examples of salaries in each division below, followed by a complete list of the jobs included in the data.

☆ Cult-favorite Crumbl Cookies franchisees slapped with nearly $60,000 in fines for violating child labor laws in 6 states
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Some Crumbl Cookies franchisees violated federal labor laws by scheduling minors outside of legal hours. Minor-aged workers at 11 Crumbl Cookie locations in six states employed minor workers who exceeded legal time limits and operated "potentially dangerous ovens and machinery," the federal agency said in a statement. Crumbl Cookies' corporate office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Fast food and quick service chains like Crumbl historically rely on teenagers to staff locations, especially amid a labor shortage. Child labor law violations spiked in 2022 with a 37% increase over the previous year, according to the Department of Labor.

☆ Netflix is still hiring for hundreds of roles across its games studio, engineering teams, and more. Salary data shows how much the company has offered for 180 different jobs.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Ashley Rodriguez | Elaine Low | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Netflix offered base salaries between $40 an hour and $800,000 a year for certain roles, data shows. The company doesn't disclose salary data, but, like other US firms, it discloses how much it plans to pay workers it hires on US visas. Many of the roles offered six-figure base salaries. Netflix may choose to pay employees more than the figures reflected in this data or compensate them in additional ways. Based on the data, Netflix offered annual base salaries ranging from $40.45 per hour to $800,000, with a median of $184,080, for various roles.

☆ The Chick-fil-A franchisee who paid workers in chicken is now being fined by the Department of Labor
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Mary Meisenzahl | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A North Carolina Chick-fil-A owner owes back pay to people who worked for food vouchers. The Department of Labor is also fining the owner more than $6,000 for child labor law violations. Chick-fil-A's corporate office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment on the Labor Department ruling, but the company previously said that it did not endorse the program. Having the workers do so was a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Labor Department said. Separately, the Labor Department said the Hendersonville, North Carolina, restaurant owes $6,450 in civil penalties over child labor violations.

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