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Three Amazon delivery drivers in Colorado are suing the tech giant over poor work conditions, including allegations of urinating in bottles and defecating in bags. In a lawsuit filed Monday in Denver District Court, drivers Leah Cross, Marco Granger-Rivera and Ryan Schilling said the pressure of “harsh work quotas” around their delivery goals kept them from using restrooms on the job. “Drivers urinate in plastic bottles and even defecate in dog waste bags in the back of their delivery vans to ensure that they do not face…

Staff at Activision Blizzard have accused the company of losing workers and “creating crisis maps” of what it can release, due to issues with the company’s remote working policy. In a series of tweets posted yesterday, World Of Warcraft game producer Adam ‘Glaxigrav’ claimed he has lost “yet another” employee this week. “Blizzard is losing amazing talent because someone in power doesn’t listen to the game directors who make his products,” wrote Adam, who said Blizzard can’t “make better Dragonflights If we get rid of…

On Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York alleged that the Chinese government used all sorts of techniques to harass and spy on Chinese dissidents living in the United States. This included a massive bot farm on Twitter, harassing dissidents on Zoom calls, and even physically setting up shop in a defacto “police station” on U.S. soil.Why is the Dancing Baby an NFT?According to Department of Justice officials, China’s Ministry of Public Security used the national police task force called…

An investigation by NME has found that Ubisoft Paris – the studio behind Just Dance – has allegedly suffered from crunch culture, demanding management and disputes with Ubisoft headquarters. Last week, French union Solidaires Informatique’s Ubisoft Paris alleged that Just Dance 2023 burned out ten per cent of its developers, and involved monthly rates of sick leave. While Ubisoft declined to comment on the claims, a representative from Solidaires Informatique’s Ubisoft Paris branch alleged the statistics were an accurate…

Several former SpaceX employees alleged that the company violated federal labor law when it fired them after they took issue with CEO Elon Musk ‘s behavior online and SpaceX’s internal culture, the former employees’ attorneys said. In charges filed individually Wednesday with the National Labor Relations Board, the eight former employees said they were terminated by SpaceX because they were part of a bigger group that raised concerns about Mr. Musk in a letter to executives earlier this…

Actors represented by Compass Artist Management Inc. allege that the Toronto-based talent agency withheld thousands of dollars from them after the company and its president withheld payment for jobs that had been completed months ago.On Oct. 19, the agency announced that it was ceasing operations immediately leading to clients wondering if they’d ever receive the money they were owed. As of Oct. 24, Compass was still incorporated and still had a registered business name.According to The Globe and Mail, Jennifer …

When UCLA students Samea Derrick and Lydia Dixon were hired as camp counselors at Bruin Woods, a Lake Arrowhead summer getaway for alumni, they were excited to land the coveted job with its networking opportunities. But after less than one week at the camp, the two would head back down the mountain and return home, traumatized by intense hazing at the hands of other counselors, they said.During those five days in June, Derrick, 19, and Dixon, 20, said they were sexually assaulted and hazed by returning student counselors,…

Six former Colton High School football players in San Bernardino County are suing the Colton Joint Unified School District and its former athletic trainer, alleging that she sexually abused them more than a decade ago.The lawsuit, filed in the San Bernardino County Superior Court on Friday, was brought under Assembly Bill 218, which went into effect Jan. 1, 2020, and gives victims of all ages three years to file cases. The statute of limitations for statutory rape in California is one year for misdemeanor charges and…

Lyft is facing legal action filed by 17 passengers and drivers who claim they were sexually or physically assaulted while using the rideshare platform.Attorneys say the alleged incidents, occurring across a number of states, include 13 of sexual assault and 4 of physical assault.“Lyft has created a national crisis,” Adam Wolf, partner at Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise (the firm that filed the lawsuits and arbitration claims), said at a press conference Wednesday. “This is happening everywhere. It can and will…

Workers under the aegis of the Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PTECSSAN) on Wednesday picketed MTN Nigeria PLC plaza in Falomo, Lagos to drive home some demands.They held placards with inscriptions such as “Workers Rights are Human Rights”; “Unionism is a Right and not a Privilege” and chanted solidarity songs. Some of the union’s grievances include MTN’s alleged resistance to workers’ right to freedom of association, freedom to organise and collective…