Prolonged hours of work and unpaid overtime are increasingly being forced on non-Japanese technical interns at some sewing companies in the east of Hiroshima Prefecture, an investigation by the Chugoku Shimbun has found.
Experts say the situation is only the tip of the iceberg, illustrating how the vulnerable trainees are bearing the brunt of economic fallout from a shrinking apparel market at home.
The investigation found the interns to have routinely been expected to perform more than 100 hours of overwork a month — far beyond the legally permissible limit. And, in many cases, they had been receiving hourly overtime pay worth only half the standard minimum wage.
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FACT CHECK: Democratic Convention Night 3 - Alton Telegraph
It was another quiet night on the fact-checking front at the Democratic National Convention. We found former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton cited a dubious study on billionaires profiting during the pandemic, and former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis went too far in describing an Obama-era effort on overtime pay.
Clinton got it wrong when she said that “billionaires got $400 billion richer” during the pandemic.
More to the point, investors started reacting weeks earlier to the pandemic’s global disruption of travel, tourism and manufacturing, sending stock values into a historic plunge. Between Feb. 19 and March 18 the S&P 500 had already lost over 29% of its value.
Post Office confessional: 'Two weeks to go two miles'
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City of Martinsburg prepares to appeal, take firefighter lawsuit to W.Va.
MARTINSBURG — According to its representation, the City of Martinsburg is preparing to appeal a Berkeley County judge's decision when she ruled in favor of 36 City of Martinsburg firefighters in a civil lawsuit filed against the city.
The suit alleges current and now-retired firefighters were not properly compensated for holiday pay or overtime over a period of years andreceived retaliation from the City for their claims.
Kin Sayre, legal counsel and representation for the City of Martinsburg, said that back in February, 23rd Judicial Circuit Court Judge Laura Faircloth presided over a hearing for summary judgments that both parties had filed, ultimately denying the city's motion regarding the issue of how overtime bonuses are collected.
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Erie County gets flak for work policies tied to Covid-19 pandemic | Buffalo Politics News |
When it comes to the Erie County government workforce – one of the region's largest employers with more than 4,000 full-time employees – county leaders are facing criticism on two sides.
The shutdown of some portions of Erie County government during the Covid-19 pandemic led to the county paying more than $5.8 million in full wages to nonessential employees who didn't work. That has led Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw to question situations where some employees received full pay for not working and overtime in the same two-week period.
Sentara begins restoring pay and benefits that were cut this spring - The Virginian-Pilot - The
Sentara officials declined to say how much money they saved from the temporary cuts that began this spring , which included furloughs, reduced hours, a hiring freeze, the elimination of some overtime pay and 10% to 20% reductions in doctor and senior leader pay.
At the time of the pay and benefit cuts announced before Memorial Day weekend, Mike Gentry, chief operating officer for Sentara, told staff such rollbacks were needed to stabilize finances and characterized the situation as "Phase I" of potentially more remediation. The company experienced an average 40 to 45% drop in patient volumes in April and expected an estimated $778 million shortfall.
USPS structure puts it in a 'fiscal bind', needs business-minded reform
Procedural changes at the U.S. Postal Service this summer, including slowing mail delivery and eliminating overtime, raised concerns among lawmakers about implications for the November election. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will testify in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday, and the House Oversight Committee on Monday, August 24.
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“The USPS is regulated by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006. Commentators often blame the PAEA for placing a burden on the USPS to pre-pay $5.5 billion annually to the Treasury to pre-fund retiree health care costs. However, the PAEA also relieved the USPS of about $5.1 billion annually in other payments to the Treasury, and the $5.5 billion prepayments ended in 2016 (since it was 10-year program).
Case: Wage & Hour/Exempt Employees (N.D. Tex.)
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Foreign trainees in Hiroshima face illegal hours and unpaid overtime https://t.co/VtbofwdQHe japantimes (from Tokyo) Fri Aug 21 09:01:10 +0000 2020
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