July 22, 2021 - Smlr_net

22 Jul 2021


      *SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource
management*
*July 22, 2021*
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August 31st. *
*Title:*                    The Pandemic Drove Women Out of the Workforce.
Will They Come Back?
*Source:*               Politico
*Author:*               Megan Cassella
*Date:*                   July 22, 2021
*Summary:*          Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so
policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
*Link:*                    https://politi.co/3xZDbRZ
*Title:*                    Striking to End ‘Suicide Shifts,’ Frito-Lay
Workers Ask People to Drop the Doritos
*Source:*               NPR
*Author:*               Vanessa Romo
*Date:*                   July 21, 2021
*Summary:          *Hundreds of Frito-Lay workers in Topeka, Kan., are in
their third week of a strike, citing so-called "suicide shifts" and poor
working conditions at the manufacturing and distribution plant at a time
when the company's net revenue growth has exceeded all of its targets.
*Link:*                    https://n.pr/36V7blS
*Title:*                   Inclusive and Equitable Tech Reskilling at
LaunchCode in St. Louis
*Source:*               Brookings
*Author:*               Jason Jabbari, Wenrui Huang, and Michal
Grinstein-Weiss
*Date:*                   July 21, 2021
*Summary:*          Due to inadequate recruitment and retention strategies
in many boot camps, as well as implicit and explicit biases in employment
practices, people of color still face barriers in gaining access to and
benefitting from these programs. Recognizing this shortcoming, LaunchCode,
a St. Louis-based technology training organization, implemented a new model
for equitable re-skilling by combining computer science training with a
paid apprenticeship and by altering its recruitment and retention efforts.
*Link:*                    https://brook.gs/2TqDwOo
*Title:*                    The National Labor Relations Board Grants a
Reprieve to Inflatable Rats.
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Noam Scheiber
*Date:*                   July 21, 2021
*Summary:*          On Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board ruled
that unions can position large synthetic props like rats, often used to
communicate displeasure over employment practices, near a work site even
when the targeted company is not directly involved in a labor dispute.
*Link:*                    https://nyti.ms/3Brv0Qp
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