Author: Danielle Paquette
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These workers quit their jobs without two weeks’ notice
The bartender arrived early, stayed late and offered to help other kitchen staffers. Still, he said, his boss told him to “show initiative” — then slashed his hours. So, 20 minutes before his shift started recently, Lucas fired off a parting group text to management: “I deserve better … so I went out and got…
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How the accused package bomber found inspiration in Trump
A U.S. postal inspector stands behind crime tape outside the Sacramento post office where a suspicious package addressed to Sen. Kamala Harris was found Friday. BOCA RATON, Fla. • The first thing that stood out about Cesar Sayoc was his vehicle. As far back as 2002, lawyer Ronald Lowy recalled, the windows of Sayoc’s white…
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Blue-collar men are riding America’s economic wave. Women? Not so much.
Well-paying jobs that don’t require a college degree are multiplying at the fastest rate in three decades, offering more Americans a path to the middle class. But economists warn one group is missing out: women. A new report from Georgetown University found there are now about 13 million jobs nationwide that require only a high…
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Customer satisfaction falls as job market skyrockets
For evidence that it’s tough to find good help these days in a tight U.S. job market, try ordering a chicken sandwich. That’s according to Marcus Boyd, 40, a Maryland resident who sought one recently at a Bethesda chicken joint. He recalls waiting for the cashier to correct a flubbed order, straining to make eye…
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These industries have the worst sexual harassment problem
The casting couch. The holiday party. The black car. The setting for sexual harassment in the news and popular culture lately is Hollywood or Silicon Valley or Capitol Hill — but researchers say women who work in restaurants and clothing stores tend to encounter more predatory behavior than those in glitzier professions. “It’s a story people haven’t focused…
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Analysis: Millennials aren’t killing stable employment
If millennials hop jobs, baby boomers are supposed to hang on to them, steadily climbing the ladder at the same company – or so conventional thinking goes. Reality is more complicated. A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggests the older generation wasn’t that much more rooted than the younger one. People born…
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Microchip-reader company hopes to conquer doubts
RIVER FALLS, Wis. – The bearded body piercer with tattooed forearms tells Sam Bengtson to take a deep breath, and then he plunges in the needle, implanting a microchip into the software engineer’s hand. “That was nothing,” Bengtson says, as the piercer smooths a bandage onto his skin. The radio-frequency identification tag now lodged between…
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U.S. could get first paid family leave benefit under Trump budget proposal
President Trump’s budget proposal next week will include a new benefit for America’s working parents, one Democrats have long championed and Republicans have long opposed: paid family leave. The president’s first detailed budget request on Tuesday will seek funds for the creation of a program to grant mothers and fathers six weeks of paid leave…
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America’s manliest industries are all competing for women
Baby boomers are retiring in droves, vacating construction sites and body shops and 18-wheelers. Now America’s male-dominated industries, faced with a looming worker shortage, are trying to tap talent that has traditionally found such working conditions hostile: women. The Iron Workers union this month leaped to the cutting edge of the effort, becoming the first…
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Donald Trump just used his presidential power to advertise L.L. Bean
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After the co-owner of retailer L.L. Bean expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump, the future leader of the United States urged his 19.6 million Twitter followers to buy the company’s goods. Trump tweeted: “Thank you…