Every 36 hours on average, American local news outlets deliver a new report on violence at a McDonald’s. A group of employees in Chicago say workers bear the brunt of such incidents—enough to constitute a pattern of regular on-the-job violence they want the company to address across the U.S. In a complaint filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Monday, the workers at one location described being threatened with guns, attacked with hot coffee and having to dodge food thrown by a disturbed customer. “Despite the frequent incidence of workplace violence, our employer has done nothing to implement safety measures to protect us,” the workers allege in the complaint, which names McDonald’s Corp. and franchisee Oscar Perretta. The employees and other Chicago-area workers, who are working with the union-backed Fight for $15 campaign, are also sending a letter asking OSHA to open a “systemic” investigation into the corporation’s handling of workplace violence in its thousands of U.S. locations. Their letter cites data from the National Employment Law Project, which counted 721 local media reports of violence at U.S. McDonald’s stores over the past three years, most of them involving guns. Training push When asked about the letter, McDonald’s said it’s rolling out national training programs in its company-owned restaurants this year focused on workplace safety. “We believe every person working in McDonald’s restaurants deserves to do so in a safe and... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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Lorin Stein, the editor of the influential literary magazine the Paris Review has resigned following an internal investigation into his behaviour towards female employees and writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Internet giants may be trying to make nice with publishers, but that's not completely reassuring to Australian regulators. The country's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is investigating Facebook, Google and other "digital platform provide... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2017-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ellis Moore from W F Howes tell us all about her role as senior acquisitions editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital media company BuzzFeed said it is laying off 8% of its U.S. employees, or 100 workers, as it changes its business model in a bid to boost revenue. It's also cutting an unspecified number of jobs in Britain. The company has 1,700 employees worldwide. A spokeswoman for New York-based... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Exhausted" staff at Amazon are being taken away in ambulances and falling asleep on their feet due to intense pressure to meet warehouse targets, an investigation by the Mirror has claimed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Head of Zeus imprint Apollo is to publish An Inconvenient Death, an exploration into the death of Dr David Kelly by investigative journalist Miles Goslett. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tig Wallace from Penguin Random House Children's tells us all about his role as editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Daniel Brown tells us all about his role as content manager at Cambridge University Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In this complex work of graphic nonfiction writer Pratap Chatterjee and artist Khalil Bendib, delve deeply into the global market for espionage technology, revealing the disturbing reasons behind growing civilian casualties from U.S. drone warfare in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agents and publishers have spoken out to condemn the violence that took place at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair between left- and right-wing groups. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Los Angeles-based talent agency APA said Thursday it was investigating an allegation that one of its agents sexually assaulted a young actor a decade ago. Blaise Godbe Lipman, now a filmmaker, made the allegations in a Facebook post Monday. In the post and in a later interview with The Times,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Inga Bodnarjuka-Mrazauskas tells us all about her role as executive manager at International Writers and Translators house, Platform LatvianLiterature. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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My Job in 5 for Frankfurt Book Fair, Day 2. Ucheora Obi tells us all about her role as research and insight manager at Macmillan Education. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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My Job in 5 for Frankfurt Book Fair 2017, Day 1. Emma Wray tells us all about her role as North American sales assistant at Octopus Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the most famous lines associated with a government sex scandal was uttered in 1963 by Mandy Rice-Davies, a party girl and peripheral player in the Profumo affair, which helped bring down Harold Macmillan’s Tory government. Informed during an appearance on the witness stand that one of the... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Oneworld is to publish Democracy Hacked, an investigation into how hackers are "gaming" democracy by Dr Martin Moore. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authorities are investigating a series of racially charged threats made on social media and in fliers that targeted Latino and Jewish students at Cal State Long Beach, officials said Saturday. They included a threat to shoot officers of the La Raza Student Assn. posted on the group’s Facebook... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster and Elif Shafak have joined a number of other authors in criticising Russia’s treatment of Ukraine and calling for freedom of expression to be preserved. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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