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Trump: I'll Bypass Congress to Pay All DHS Employees

Executive order follows weeks-long DHS funding lapse amid partisan immigration fight

(Newser) - President Trump says he's ready to go around Congress—again—to make sure Homeland Security workers get paid. In a Thursday social media post , he announced he will "soon sign an order" to cover paychecks for all Department of Homeland Security employees, arguing their families "have suffered far too long"...

Voice of America Journalists to Stay on Leave After All

Staffers will remain on leave while appeals court considers case

(Newser) - An appeals court on Tuesday suspended a federal judge's order for the government to reinstate Voice of America workers who have been on administrative leave since the US-funded broadcaster was effectively shut down early last year. The ruling means nearly 1,000 employees will remain on leave while the...

Equal Pay Day Takes a Hit for 2nd Year Straight

Gender pay gap widens, with women's earnings dropping to 81 cents for every dollar earned by men

(Newser) - Americans are celebrating Equal Pay Day on Thursday, but the calendar seems to be moving in the wrong direction. The date—marking how long into 2026 women must work to match what men earned the previous year—falls on March 26 this time around, one day later than last year,...

Musk Offers to Cover TSA Pay During DHS Standoff
Musk's Offer to Pay
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Mar 25, 2026 6:20 PM CDT

Musk's Offer to Pay TSA Agents Turned Down

White House says it would 'pose great legal challenges' due to his federal contracts

(Newser) - The White House says it appreciates the world's richest man's offer to cover paychecks for TSA workers during the partial government shutdown, but there are legal obstacles in the way. "We greatly appreciate Elon's generous offer. This would pose great legal challenges due to his involvement...

Desperate Workers on AI: We're Digging Our 'Own Grave'

Highly educated gig workers are powering the training data behind big artificial-intelligence models

(Newser) - Some white-collar workers who lost out to AI are now being paid to help perfect the tech that sidelined them, often in ways that feel just as precarious. That's the uneasy reality documented by the Verge's Josh Dzieza, who follows lawyers, writers, designers, coders, and scientists now piecing...

The Latest Thing in Work-Life Balance: 'Microshifting'

Some professionals are weaving in errands, family time with short, productive bursts of work

(Newser) - Before the house is humming and her teenagers ask her to whip up breakfast or chauffeur them to school, Jen Meegan reads her company emails and revisits ideas she drafted the night before. She works for an hour or so, then after the school run shops for groceries or gets...

'Bully' Chef Steps Down From Noma After Abuse Allegations

Allegations of staff abuse and sponsor exits precede his resignation

(Newser) - René Redzepi, the chef who turned Copenhagen's Noma into a global dining destination, has stepped down from the restaurant he co-founded in 2003 amid mounting allegations of past workplace abuse , the New York Times reports. His exit follows a Times investigation and viral Instagram posts from former employee Jason...

Celebrity Chef Apologizes Again for Being a 'Bully'

Ex-workers detail violence, intimidation in Copenhagen's Noma, run by Rene Redzepi

(Newser) - Star chef Rene Redzepi built Noma into a temple of haute cuisine—but a new New York Times investigation now says he did it while routinely crossing physical and psychological lines with his staff. Reporter Julia Moskin spoke with nearly three dozen former employees, who describe a pattern of alleged...

Salesforce CEO Booed by His Own Employees

Staff urge Marc Benioff to cut ICE contracts after he joked that the agency was monitoring workers

(Newser) - Salesforce's boss is under fire for an ICE joke that landed with a thud. During a company conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, CEO Marc Benioff reportedly asked international employees to stand, then quipped that ICE agents were in the room watching them—a remark that elicited boos and...

Workers Don't Love Amazon's New 'Chief Heartthrob'
Amazon's Super
Bowl Gag
Isn't Landing Well
With Workers
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Feb 8, 2026 11:00 AM CST

Amazon's Super Bowl Gag Isn't Landing Well With Workers

Making Chris Hemsworth 'Chief Heartthrob' on company's org chart irks many amid layoffs

(Newser) - Amazon briefly added a superhero to its organizational chart, and some workers weren't amused. On Thursday, employees logging into Amazon's internal directory found Chris Hemsworth listed as "Chief Heartthrob" for Alexa devices, complete with an Amazon email, a side gig as a "bar raiser" (an internal...

Trump Appears to Flip Off Heckler During Ford Plant Tour

White House calls gesture 'appropriate' response to shouted insult

(Newser) - President Trump's visit to a Michigan Ford plant Tuesday produced more than just talk about cars and jobs, CNN reports. TMZ published video that appears to show the POTUS responding to a heckler on the factory floor by pointing and appearing to say "f--- you" twice before raising...

Amazon Is Turning Its Workers Into 'Badgers'

New dashboard tracks badge swipes to pinpoint when workers come in, how long they stay

(Newser) - Amazon's return-to-office push now comes with a new label: what kind of "badger" you are. The company has rolled out an expanded internal dashboard that lets managers track not just whether corporate employees come into the office, but also how many hours they spend there and which buildings...

OpenAI Showers Workers With Record $1.5M Stock Packages

Awards are said to make up nearly half of company's 2025 revenue

(Newser) - OpenAI isn't just racing ahead in AI—it's rewriting the playbook on Silicon Valley pay. Internal financial data seen by investors indicates the company is handing out an average of $1.5 million in stock-based compensation per employee, for a workforce of about 4,000, according to a...

Louvre Workers Double Down on Their Strike

Union employees at Paris museum complain of understaffing, building deterioration

(Newser) - Employees at the Louvre voted on Wednesday to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world's most visited museum. Union workers were protesting chronic understaffing, building deterioration, and recent management decisions—pressures intensified by a brazen crown-jewels heist in October. The decision came during a morning general...

Starbucks Workers Notch a Win in 'Demands of Decency'

Coffee giant to pony up $35M settlement for 15K-plus staffers in NYC over erratic schedules, hours

(Newser) - Starbucks will pay about $35 million to 15,000-plus New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday, hours before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Sen. Bernie Sanders visited striking baristas on a picket line. The development came amid...

Startup Founder Goes All-In on AI Workers, Chaos Ensues

AI staffers invent fake meetings, imaginary hikes, and endless updates

(Newser) - A startup founder's experiment with an all-AI staff took a surreal turn when his digital "employees" began fabricating progress reports and brainstorming company off-sites in the wilderness. Writing for Wired , Evan Ratliff shares a personal account of his unusual experiment: He created a company—HurumoAI—staffed entirely by...

We're Finally Getting September's Jobs Report

Labor Department to release shutdown-delayed numbers on Thursday, a month and a half late

(Newser) - The Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late, marking the beginning of the end of a data drought caused by the 43-day federal government shutdown. The statistical blackout meant that the Federal Reserve, businesses, policymakers, and investors have...

'Welcome to Target, I Must Smile for You'

New 10-4 policy urges employees to make close greetings to improve customer loyalty

(Newser) - You can't get within 4 feet of a Target employee without receiving a smile and a chat under new rules from the retail giant. Target has unveiled a new 10-4 rule, which, despite the name, doesn't institute a 4-day workweek. Rather, it requires employees to act a certain...

Treasury Staffers Get Warning as WH Ballroom Build Begins

Treasury employees, whose offices are next to White House, told no pictures during East Wing demolition

(Newser) - The Treasury Department has directed its employees to avoid photographing or sharing images of construction at the White House's East Wing, following a wave of viral photos showing demolition for President Trump's planned $250 million ballroom. Treasury staff, whose offices neighbor the site, received an internal email warning...

Push to Get Workers Back in the Office Is Meeting Resistance

Mandates rise at places like Microsoft, Paramount, but office attendance remains stubbornly low

(Newser) - Many large companies are tightening their return-to-the-office policies, but workers aren't exactly flooding back to their desks. Names like Microsoft, Paramount, and NBCUniversal are ramping up in-person requirements, with some, such as Paramount, telling employees to return full time or consider a buyout. The New York Times and...

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