Employers say AI makes workers faster — but it's also creating 'friction or mistrust,' report finds

Artificial intelligence is creating tension between employers and employees over its deployment, a new MetLife report finds.

Thousands of meatpacking workers walk off job in first strike in 40 years

United Food and Commercial Union Local 7, the union representing the 3,800 striking workers, said that JBS failed to meet its ...

'Pro-worker AI,' streaming fatalities, and other fascinating new economic studies

From artificial intelligence to fatalities from music streaming to the effects of immigrants on elderly health care, the Planet Money newsletter rounds up some interesting new economic studies.
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Worker-Driven Social Responsibility: A Model That Builds Power for Workers on the Margins

Amid ongoing attacks on worker protections and enforcement, worker-driven social responsibility programs offer alternative, scalable pathways to building collective power for workers across industries ...
Finance & Commerce

Work-life balance benefits workers, employers

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...
National Law Review

DOL Proposes New Rule with a Familiar Five-Factor Test for Worker Classification

Wage and Hour Division proposed a new rule to determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees under ...
Futurism on MSN

Factory paying human worker to watch robot worker all day

"Efficiency is the name of the game and it's relentless." The post Factory Paying Human Worker to Watch Robot Worker All Day ...