April 30, 2021 - Smlr_net

30 Apr 2021


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*APRIL 30, 2021*
*Title:*                    No College, No Problem. Some Employers Drop
Degree Requirements to Diversify Staffs
*Source:*               NPR
*Author:*               Kirk Carapezza
*Date:*                   April 29, 2021
*Summary:*          On a recent afternoon, Emily Knowles was testing out
apps with her software development team, making sure they work properly.
"This is something that I never thought would be possible," she said.
That's in part, because the 23-year-old from Watertown, Mass., has some
credits but she doesn't have a college degree. Knowles, a quality assurance
analyst, is bi-racial. Both her parents are immigrants and they never went
to college. And now Knowles is working in tech — a field dominated by
highly-educated white and Asian men.
*Link:*                    https://n.pr/3e1QIRo
*Title:*                    Graduate Students are on Strike at N.Y.U., Long
a Labor Battleground
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Emma Goldberg
*Date:*                   April 30, 2021
*Summary:*          N.Y.U.’s campus is in limbo as graduate students stop
working, with their union demanding higher wages, more benefits and less
police presence on campus.
*Link:*                    https://nyti.ms/334iy9a
*Title:*                   U.S. Labor Secretary Throws His Support Behind
Classifying Gig Workers as Employees
*Source:*               Reuters
*Author:*               Nandita Bose
*Date:*                   April 29, 2021
*Summary:*          A lot of gig workers in the United States should be
classified as “employees” who deserve work benefits, President Biden’s
labor secretary said on Thursday, suggesting a shift in policy that is
likely to raise costs for companies that depend on contractors such as Uber
and Lyft.
*Link:*                    https://reut.rs/2RfjNzD
*Title:*                    New York City Sues Chipotle, Alleging Hundreds
of Thousands of Labor Law Violations
*Source:*               CNN Business
*Author:*               Danielle Wiener-Bronner
*Date:*                   April 29, 2021
*Summary:*          New York City is suing Chipotle Mexican Grill, alleging
that the company violated a law that requires fast food chains to give
their employees more predictable, less hectic schedules. In a lawsuit filed
this week, the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said
that from the end of November 2017 through at least September 2019, workers
experienced nearly 600,000 violations of the law.
*Link:*                    https://cnn.it/3u6JlOj
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