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Two New York Times employees are suing the newspaper, citing “an environment rife with discrimination based on age, race, and gender”. The class action lawsuit comes the same week that Curt Schilling accused ESPN of a culture of racism. Schilling was recently fired from his role as a commentator at the sports channel after making…
Vice’s UK arm has rejected a push for union recognition by a group of staff, bucking a growing trend that has seen unionisation at digital media businesses including the outlet’s main base in the US. At a meeting held in London on Tuesday, Vice UK staff were told that the National Union of Journalists would…
As part of the landmark $100 million settlement agreed to last night, Uber says drivers will now be allowed to ask for tips. Which means everyone, even you, will now have to tip their drivers. Forever. Probably in cash, since there’s no way to do it in the app. extended entry your rating as a rider…
If you’re a freelance writer, the majority of your editors are probably male and the majority of your colleagues are probably female. That’s not just an anecdotal generalization. The American Society of News Editors (ASNE)’s latest report showed that, on average, women make up only 37 percent of newsroom staffs and hold only 35 percent of supervisor roles….
paging_filter On Friday, the Writers Guild of America-East announced that it had reached an agreement with Vice Media on a proposed contract covering its roughly 70 members at the company. The WGA-East has not made the proposed contract publicly available, but an email sent to members of the Vice union includes details on the pay…
I’m a big fan of Dan Lyons, the former Newsweek senior reporter who used to write the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs blog, and now is a comedy writer on the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” I’m looking forward to seeing him at Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park, in the heart of Silicon Valley, promoting his…
Happy Equal Pay Day! Facebook and Microsoft just announced that their companies have closed the wage gap; both have announced that they pay all employees the same wages for the same work. Let’s give them a firm pat on the back for catching up to the Equal Pay Act of 1963, shall we? Only 53 years and the tech industry finally…
Tuesday was Equal Pay Day, a day to protest the profound gender and racial gaps in working wages: compared to what white men make, white women make 78%, Black women make 64% and Latina women just 54%. Predictably, tech companies took what should be a moment of reflection and resistance to go on a press…
Demonstrations around France against a draft labour reform law have turned violent, with at least seven police officers injured and 17 people arrested in Paris and Rennes, which saw the worst clashes. Following changes to soften the bill, the broad-based protest movement has waned from its 31 March peak, when turnout estimates ranged between 390,000…
Photo Credit Henning Wagenbreth AT HubSpot, the software company where I worked for almost two years, when you got fired, it was called “graduation.” We all would get a cheery email from the boss saying, “Team, just letting you know that X has graduated and we’re all excited to see how she uses her superpowers…