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Joe Raedle/Getty Images Approximately 800,000 federal government employees have gone without pay since the third government shutdown of the year went into effect just after midnight on December 22. A portion of these workers are employed as contractors, which means their payments come from a third party. If the government is not working with that […]
This article was produced in partnership with Point, a YouTube channel for investigative journalism. It discusses topics that you may find upsetting and contains strong language and racial slurs. Somewhere out there, a man wants to rape Emily. She knows this because he was painfully clear in typing out his threat. In fact, he’s just […]
Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Applebee’s parent company, Dine Brands, and its second-largest franchisee, RMH Holdings, are battling in court, with Dine Brands attempting to take control of dozens of the franchisee’s restaurants. RMH controls more than 140 Applebee’s locations and filed for bankruptcy in May, blaming Dine Brands’ “ill-advised and value-destroying” decisions for struggling sales and […]
Progress, the Blairite Labour-supporting organization, is advertising for “volunteers” to fill its job vacancies, in a sign that a severe lack of funding is beginning to bite for the consistent Corbyn critics. Listed on its job vacancies page are three unpaid roles; events, social media and sub-editor, with job specifications that intimate that such positions […]
Enlarge / A heroin addict at a rehab house. (credit: Getty | AFP) If you caught John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight this past Sunday, you saw a lengthy segment detailing the atrocities of the rehabilitation industry. As Oliver pointed out, it’s largely an unregulated, unstandardized market rife with bad actors, scams, and bunkum that offers […]
The US Navy has launched a probe after a group of its sailors were detained and fined following a dispute and a brawl with security guards at a nightclub in the town of Craiova, Romania. A group of seven sailors, based at a US missile defense facility in the southern Romanian town of Deveselu, reportedly […]
Getty Images HMRC is targeting companies which advertise unpaid work. More than 500 were contacted since November, with plans for more. Genuine voluntary unpaid placements are legal, but any position with fixed hours and defined work must be compensated with hourly pay. Officials doubled the budget for tackling unpaid work, to £25 million. The British […]
Published time: 16 Dec, 2017 10:08 Statistics from the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) shows unpaid taxes in Greece currently make up more than 55 percent of the country’s GDP due to the inability of people to pay the rising taxes. Overdue debt to the state has reached nearly €100 billion with only €15 […]
Enlarge / A nori farm off the coast of Japan. (credit: H. Grobe) The tasty Japanese seaweed nori is ubiquitous today, but that wasn’t always true. Nori was once called “lucky grass” because every year’s harvest was entirely dependent on luck. Then, during World War II, luck ran out. No nori would grow off the […]
Published time: 20 Oct, 2017 17:10 An Air Berlin flight was grounded in Reykjavik over the airline’s unpaid airport charges. The Icelandic aviation authority would not allow the plane to take off without paying its bills. Cash-strapped Air Berlin, one of Germany’s largest airlines, filed for insolvency in August after shareholder Etihad announced it would […]
