This Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we have something special to share! @github made a movie about our founders Mick & Jamie & the story of not only NVDA, but also OSARA. Two life-changing open-source projects. Both actively providing access & employment to blind people around the world.
"Return-to-office mandates at some of the most powerful #tech companies — #Apple, #Microsoft and #SpaceX — were followed by a spike in departures among the most senior, tough-to-replace talent...
"The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday banned #noncompete agreements for most #US workers with a new rule that will bar employers from enforcing clauses that restrict #workers from switching employers within their industry...
If you're in the UK, check out this new Rough Sleeping Criminal Justice Bill. Feel free to boost this for visibility or add hashtags - I think it's important to set &/or maintain the precedent that these laws be debated and critiqued very thoroughly. Telling someone with no home to 'move along' is a stiff order. That police could be asked to uphold this law (as it is written) could carry a risk of moral injury to our coppers.
“Nuisance rough sleeping” starts at s.59, and the offending smelly “rough sleeping condition” can be found at s.69(5)(c). Including words from subs.(4):
> A person does “something that is a nuisance” if the person ... causes or does something capable of causing ... damage to the environment (including excessive noise, smells, litter or deposits of waste)...
If one were to parody this, I'd propose the following as a start:
"Sleeping in public in the UK must now be done only in a suit and tie or equivalent formal dress, whilst wearing a perfume. Snoring is illegal. Campaigners are lobbying the government to permit it to be carried out whilst wearing a polo-shirt and chinos, however the government maintain that this is a slippery slope to people wearing pyjamas in public, and thence anarchy."
Information about one's MP is available at https://www.theyworkforyou.com/ if you feel further critique of this law is a worthy cause. I'd suggest any MP pushing for this would get positive media coverage.
According to a working paper by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, job applicants with names that suggest they are Black are getting fewer callbacks from employers than those with names that suggest they are white. The typical employer called back the presumed-white applicants around 9% more than Black ones. That rose to around 24% for the worst offenders. The research team has now named the 97 companies they studied and assigned them grades. "Putting the names out there in the public domain is to move away from a lot of the performative allyship that you see with these companies, saying, 'Oh, we value inclusivity and diversity,'" Pat Kline, an economics professor who worked on the study told NPR.
Today I walked into work for what is 8 straight years at the same employer.
I'm amazed I lasted this long.
They are too probably...
As an added bonus, Dallas got some treats from the crew for Easter.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #workday #employment.
Of course after receiving nearly 300 million in funding from the government!!
Ford delays start of EV production at Oakville plant until 2027
Spokesperson says layoffs will be associated with the delay
"Unifor is extremely disappointed by the company's decision. Our members have done nothing but build best-in-class vehicles for Ford Motor Co. and they deserve certainty in the company's future production plans,"
A new bill from #SanFrancisco Assembly Member #MattHaney would clearly outline when companies can communicate w/their #employees during off hrs, following other countries that have passed “right to disconnect” #laws.
#AB2751 would require companies to lay out the expected working hrs in #employment contracts….It would also give state #labor authorities the power to investigate & fine companies that show a pattern of barging in on employees’ personal time.
“Work has changed drastically compared to what it was just 10 yrs ago. #Smartphones have blurred the boundaries between #work & #home life. Workers shouldn’t be punished for not being available 24/7 if they’re not being paid for 24hrs of work,” Haney said.