Over the weekend, a fear gripped social media. People regarded each other with suspicion, a single question nagging the backs of their minds as they engaged with anything or anyone: Is that a cake? Are you cake? Am I?
https://www.eater.com/2020/7/14/21324081/cake-that-doesnt-look-like-cake-meme-explained
This one completely passed me by, tbh. Maybe because I’m not on Instagram anymore? Maybe because I’m old and busy?
Millions of workers have taken pay cuts to keep their jobs. Somewhere around 6 million workers have had their hours trimmed enough to now label those workers as part-time.
The pandemic has led to well-documented job losses. But pay cuts are a big problem, too. – Poynter
Considering how slow companies are to raise pay rates, especially for part-time or contingent work, this is another factor we’re going to be grappling with for quite a while.
A 100-page civil rights audit published Wednesday morning lays bare Facebook’s failings, and the auditors conclude that Facebook’s failure “to grasp the urgency” of the situation will have “direct and consequential implications“ on the U.S. presidential elections in November.
Facebook Just Failed Its First Ever Civil Rights Audit
Apparently civil rights isn’t a money-making game for Facebook.
About two-thirds of workers displaced by the coronavirus can receive higher wages than they were receiving on the job, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research paper.
Two-thirds of laid off workers eligible for benefits that exceed their wages: NBER paper
This doesn’t mean people are getting too much in unemployment assistance, it means our minimum wage is a joke that doesn’t allow people to live.
Most schools don’t even know which students are lacking internet service, and the neediest families are often the hardest to reach.
https://www.axios.com/school-broadband-crisis-500dd146-a1cf-4cde-b2af-2b9b2de2f81a.html
This is a massive issue, one we’re going to have to address at a national level in the very near future.
Unequal pay is shameful and needs to end. But even now, practices that perpetuate unfair and inequitable pay persist.
Pay Black employees based on performance not bias
This, absolutely.
what qualifies as objectivity is in the eye of the beholder, and that eye is still predominantly male and white.
Objectivity isn’t a magic wand – Columbia Journalism Review
Even while still living in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, we’re starting to see the long-term effects of lost schooling, curtailed travel and shuttered businesses.
The coronavirus damage that will last for years – Axios
All because we couldn’t effectively distribute some masks and then wear them for more than like a week and a half.
The U.S. workplace is still rampant with discrimination, but the bulk of it is going unchecked as companies have figured out how to keep themselves out of court.
Why the odds are stacked against workers in discrimination cases – Axios
It’s cheaper and easier to find lawyers to skirt regulations than it is to treat people with respect.
But now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, more employees are working remotely—and more destinations are offering cash to these workers to relocate. Cities and towns have long offered companies financial rewards for bringing jobs and tax revenues to their region, but now many are turning their attention, and incentives, toward these individual mobile workers.
Cities are offering cash as they compete for remote workers
Now that companies are kinda sorta realizing people can be based anywhere and still be productive, cities are catching on.
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