Every year, employers in the U.S. steal an estimated $50 billion in wages from their workers, which makes wage theft the single largest form of illegal business activity according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). This egregious crime takes a… Read More »Wage Theft: Guilty Executives Can Now End Up Behind Bars
It’s all over but the shouting, as the saying goes. The war on ESG investing, financed by Big Business and waged by political opportunists who built a straw man out of “woke capitalism,” is rapidly running out of steam. “Recent… Read More »The War on ESG Investing is Over. Common Sense Has Prevailed.
If you compiled a list of all the issues ESG investors are concerned about today, this topic would barely breach the ranks of the top 100. But the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent push to ban noncompete agreements has widespread… Read More »Noncompete Agreements Hurt Rank and File Workers
A Guest Post from Clear Strategy Underaged child labor may be cheap for employers, but it is devastating for the estimated 160 million children globally who were in the workforce in 2020, half of those performing hazardous work. For the sake of… Read More »The Scourge of Child Labor
It has already been a tough year for US tech companies and the estimated 95,000 workers who have been laid off in the last month and a half. The hiring boom that came along with low interest rates, an uptick… Read More »Layoffs Are Not Good Business
Amazon made a splash on social media this month, announcing that customers could give their delivery driver a $5 tip, paid for by Amazon, by telling Alexa to “thank my Amazon driver.” But it wasn’t the season of giving that… Read More »A Tip for Amazon: Skip the Gimmicks
While it is entirely possible that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will end like one of SpaceX’s less-fortunate launches, if Twitter survives, Musk’s unenthusiastic views on ESG will undoubtedly become amplified on that social media platform. Musk’s views on ESG… Read More »Musk, Twitter & ESG