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Is this true across the board? Husband asking about his insurance coverage. Medicare is taken from his pay weekly.

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Should I report my (ex) company?

I recently left my job at a very, very large insurance company. Prior to quitting, I had filed a complaint with HR about the company removing confirmed OT hours from employees. Should I also report to the dept of labor? Will it even be taken seriously or will I look like a jilted former employee?

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Sometimes you just need to tell them how it is, this recruiter gave me a very good vibe, it sucks that she’s working for this company.

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Today is the closest I have ever come to walking out of a job

For context, I am a transport planner for a medium sized logistics company in the UK. I have been with the company a year and a half. Hired initially as admin staff (I have previous planning experience for a role I was made redundant in at the start of the pandemic), then moved into planning. I was working up to getting the national average salary for a transport planner, aiming for around this time to ask for that increase. About a month and a half ago I was told I would need to do the container planning going forward. No big deal, the guy who runs that side of the business is sound. The 1st day I turn up for the new role within the business, I find out that the guy who runs it is leaving for a new job (better money, far better working conditions etc) so I…

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I got an entry-level Job in desperation in a sector severely hit by covid, they sent me a welcome to hell message via teams.

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The workload at Edinburgh International Conference Centre. EICC Scotland

Around 3 days back, there was a Annual dinner that took place in Edinburgh international conference centre, it was for “Scottish Energy forums” Now when I tell you this is one of the poshest dinners, I mean it. It was MASSIVE, the place was filled with millionaires, I even heard from a friend that there was a billionaire who was attending the dinner there. The dinner was for 750 PEOPLE, I really want to emphasise on the number of people attending the dinner because for 750 people you’d assume there would be maybe 30-40 people helping with the set up of the place and dinner, But No. literally they had 4 workers setting up the entire place. There were 74 tables, and around 750 chairs, for each person there had to be a napkin, 3 forks, 3 knives, 2 spoons, plates, snacks, loads of wine, and Prosecco bottles on each…

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Workplace Violation Tracker

I wanted to give this handy resource to everyone. There are currently US and UK versions. Violation Tracker is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct. It covers banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, wage & hour, safety, discrimination, price-fixing, and other cases resolved by federal regulatory agencies and all parts of the Justice Department since 2000 — plus cases from state AGs and selected state regulatory agencies. In all: 502,000 civil and criminal cases from more than 300 agencies with penalties of $774 billion. We also cover selected types of class action lawsuits. Violation Tracker is produced by the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First. https://www.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker

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work an overnight shift on the fly? sure! work 6 days a week? of course! need to leave 45 minutes early? unacceptable

fucking ridiculous. told her if I have to cancel my appointment then I’m gonna need to be reimbursed for the cancellation fee so she’s gonna let me leave, but damn I will be remembering this next time she calls me on a saturday night in need of coverage

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The corporate trolley problem

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Job post is 16 hours, in reality its stay till the jobs done or get a notice of improvement in your records.

4 years I Worked for a popular discount store that post jobs for a 16 hour contract but you go in at 5-6am till 10am to get delivery out but because were so understaffed we are forced to stay till its done with threats of disciplinary actions they say “its for the needs of the business”. when i argue this and bring up how they are blackmailing us i get hushed and sent to the office for a talk. They hire people and when they realise this is how it is they quit, I cant even tell you how many people they have gone through. And this is all 20p above minimum wage they are so proud of that.