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A California labor regulator said Tuesday it has fined Amazon nearly $6 million for thousands of violations of a safety law that takes effect in 2022.The measure, known as the Warehouse Quotas Law, allows employees to request a written explanation of any productivity quotas that apply to them, as well as an explanation of any discipline they may face if they don’t meet the quotas.The state labor commissioner’s office said Amazon violated the law more than 59,000 times at two warehouses in Southern California between October and March.The system Amazon used in the two warehouses “is exactly the kind of…
Move over, Microsoft and Apple. The stock market has a new king.On Tuesday, Nvidia overtook two of tech’s biggest names to become the world’s most valuable public company, according to data from S&P Global. Its rise has been fueled by the boom in genetic artificial intelligence and growing demand for the company’s chips — known as graphics processing units, or GPUs — that make AI systems possible.Nvidia’s rise is one of the fastest in market history. Just two years ago, the company’s market valuation was just over $400 billion. Now, in the space of a year, it has gone from…
Fisker filed for bankruptcy late Monday, the latest electric vehicle start-up to fail after raising large sums of money from investors with high expectations.Fisker’s bankruptcy filing, about a year after delivering its first vehicle and nearly four years after going public, came after months of doubt about its financial viability. The start-up has repeatedly cut production targets for its flagship Ocean SUV and faced escalating financial turmoil, warning of “substantial doubt” it could continue as a going concern in February, halting production in March and defaulting on a loan in May .Talks with another automaker about a potential investment collapsed…
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced Monday that he will push for a warning label on social media platforms advising parents that using the platforms can harm teenagers’ mental health.Warning labels — like those found on tobacco and alcohol products — are one of the most powerful tools at the nation’s top health official’s disposal, but Dr. Murthy cannot demand them unilaterally. the action requires congressional approval.The proposal is based on years of escalating warnings from the surgeon general. In a May 2023 advisory, it recommended that parents immediately set limits on phone use and urged Congress to quickly…
A native New Yorker who lives not far from the Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, Mr. Eckstein started with a hit list of 150 museums that eventually whittled down to the 75 featured in the book. He spent just over a year visiting the institutions to photograph and sketch them and collect stories from curators, guides and visitors.His illustrations capture the feeling of walking through a gallery or pausing to contemplate a work of art such as John Singleton Copley’s “Watson and the Shark” from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (his wife, the artist Tamar Stone, is the woman…
Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to President Biden, met Tuesday with senior Lebanese officials in Beirut, where he pressed for a diplomatic solution as increasingly deadly skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia. , they did the situation in Israel. Lebanon’s borders are dangerously unstable.For the past eight months, as the war has raged in Gaza, another battle has erupted along Israel’s northern border. During that time, Hezbollah, a well-armed and tested fighting force, and the Israeli military played a dangerous game of passions, carrying out muscle-flexing attacks but avoiding full-scale war. Despite the seemingly measured approach taken…
The University of Michigan and the City University of New York mishandled complaints of campus discrimination during widespread protests over the war in Gaza, the Department of Education said Monday.The department’s Office for Civil Rights has launched dozens of investigations into anti-Semitism and anti-Arab discrimination as students have rallied and camped out in support of the Palestinians and called for their schools to withdraw from Israel.The Michigan and New York cases were only the first to reach a conclusion. More are expected to be completed in the coming weeks and months as schools continue to grapple with the limits of…
After years of Amazon workers organizing and pressuring the company to negotiate over wages and working conditions, two prominent unions are teaming up to challenge the online retailer.The partnership was finalized in a vote that ended Monday after members of the Amazon Labor Union, the only union that officially represents Amazon warehouse workers in the United States, voted overwhelmingly to join the 1.3 million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters members. Voting is overseen by the Amazon Association.ALU scored a surprise election victory at a Staten Island warehouse in 2022. However, it has yet to begin negotiations with Amazon, which continues to…
Lesa Walton suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for years. “It was awful,” said Ms. Walton, 57, who lives in Wenatchee, Wash. “I kept getting sicker and sicker.”She also had high blood pressure and was obese. Doctors told her to diet and exercise, which she did, to no avail.Then he found a doctor who prescribed Wegovy, one of the new obesity drugs. Not only did he lose more than 50 pounds, he said. her arthritis cleared up and she no longer needed pills to lower her blood pressure.Her new doctor, Dr. Stefie Deeds, an internist and obesity medicine specialist in private practice…
When the guests arrived at the Mouki Mou store in Athens at 6 p.m. on the last weekend in May, they grabbed cool glasses of Greek rosé before retiring to the concrete-lined boutique. Its founder, Maria Lemos, who grew up in Greece, opened the store in the city’s historic center, Plaka, in 2023, ten years after Mouki Mou’s flagship store was established on London’s Chiltern Street. In both places, she curates a roster of under-the-radar clothing and homewares brands that focus on craftsmanship with a tactile wabi-sabi approach. On this particular night, the brand in focus was Dosa, founded by…