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Wisconsin firm won't allow prayer breaks for Muslim workers
2016-01-19 17:14:01| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
A Wisconsin manufacturer says it won't back away from a policy change that doesn't allow special prayer breaks for Muslim employees, despite an American-Islamic group's call for a compromise. Fifty-three employees at the Ariens Co.
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Airport Workers Around The Country Rally For Better Wages
2016-01-19 08:56:59| Airlines - Topix.net
From Newark, N.J., to Washington, D.C., to Chicago and Miami workers called for a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour. "If Dr. King were alive today, he would be standing alongside of us," said Kevin Brown, New Jersey's state director of the local service employees union, 32BJ SEIU.
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VIDEO: Chinese workers hit by slowing growth
2016-01-19 00:26:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's Stephen Evans meets some of the Chinese steelworkers put out of a job by falling prices and the slowing economy.
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Airport workers plan disruptions in nine U.S. cities on MLK Day
2016-01-17 11:51:15| Airlines - Topix.net
Workers from nine U.S. airports are planning to block bridges, march through terminals and protest at airline headquarters during a day of civil disobedience on Martin Luther King Jr. Day . The workers - a mix of cleaners, baggage handlers, fuelers and wheelchair attendants - will risk arrest at airports and other locations to bring attention to their campaign for better wages, the Service Employees International Union said.
High court to decide on overtime pay for car dealer workers
2016-01-15 23:33:22| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
The Supreme Court will decide whether people who work as service advisers at auto dealerships are entitled to overtime pay under federal labor laws. The justices agreed Friday to hear an appeal from a California auto dealer that says its service advisers are similar to car salesmen or mechanics who are exempt from overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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