January 25, 2023 - Smlr_net

25 Jan 2023


      *SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource
management*
*January 25, 2023*
*Title:*                    America, We Have a Problem. People Aren’t
Feeling Engaged With Their Work
*Source:*               NPR
*Author:*               Andrea Hsu
*Date:*                   January 25, 2023
*Summary:*          The Gallup survey of roughly 67,000 people in 2022
found only 32% of workers are engaged with their work compared with 36% in
2020. The share of workers found to be "actively disengaged" has risen
since 2020, while the share of those in the middle — those considered "not
engaged" — has remained about the same.
*Link:*                    http://bit.ly/3XVvDMB
*Title:*                    Walmart Raises Starting Wages for Store Workers
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Michael Corkery
*Date:*                   January 24, 2023
*Summary:*          The retail giant said the minimum wages for those
employees would range from $14 to $19 an hour, up from $12 to $18 an hour.
*Link:*                    http://bit.ly/3kGTcKO
*Title:*                   ‘Robots Are Treated Better’: Amazon Warehouse
Workers Stage First-Ever Strike in the UK
*Source:*               CNBC
*Author: *              Ryan Browne
*Date:*                   January 25, 2023
*Summary:*          Amazon
workers are going on strike in Britain, in a move that marks the first
formal industrial action in the country for the U.S. tech giant. The
24-hour strike action began Wednesday a minute after midnight. Strikers are
expected to picket outside the company’s site in Coventry in central
England throughout the day. The GMB Union, which represents the workers
involved, said it expects 300 employees out of a total 1,000 at the plant
to turn up to the walkout.
*Link:*                    http://bit.ly/3WCFZ2V
*Title:*                    The Economic Costs of Worker Misclassification
*Source:*               Economic Policy Institute
*Author:*               John Schmitt, Heidi Shierholz, Margaret Poydock,
and Samantha Sanders
*Date:*                   January 25, 2023
*Summary:*          When employers misclassify workers as “independent
contractors” instead of as “employees,” they are exposing those workers to
economic costs and depriving them of fundamental labor rights.
*Link:*                    http://bit.ly/3XYCc0H
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