8th Circuit: COVID Stay-at-Home Orders Did Not ‘Quarantine’ Skiers February 28, 2023 By Jim Sams Government orders that restricted access to non-essential businesses during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic were not “quarantines” that...
Could be Months Before Sanctuary Reopens After Bird Flu September 1, 2022 By Janet McConnaughey It could be months before a Georgia animal sanctuary reopens after being closed by bird flu that killed wild vultures...
Expect More Shipping Chaos as Omicron Forces Transport Workers to Quit December 28, 2021 By K. Oanh Ha and Ann Koh From seafarers refusing to get back on ships to truck drivers whose concern over Covid-related border closures trumps the lure...
Royal Caribbean Guests Are in Limbo After False Covid Diagnosis December 9, 2020 By Kyunghee Park A Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ship on a four-day pleasure trip was forced to return to port in Singapore and...
Workers Praise Disney Virus Safety, But Will Visitors Come? July 27, 2020 By Mike Schneider ORLANDO, Fla. — Every week, it seems, Kaila Barker, her husband and their five children change their minds about whether...
Lawsuit: 150 Cannery Workers Forced Into Hotel Quarantine Without Pay June 22, 2020 By Jim Sams LOS ANGELES — About 150 seasonal workers hired by a salmon cannery in Alaska are being forced to quarantine without...
At Senior Home, Staff Stays Put 24-7 to Stop Virus Spread May 6, 2020 By Sudhin Thanawala ATLANTA — As girls, Nadia Williams and her sister spent countless hours imagining their weddings. Now 30, Williams helped her...
New York AG Raises Concerns About Amazon’s Pandemic Safety Practices April 28, 2020 By Kanishka Singh and Aakriti Bhalla Amazon.com Inc may have violated safety measures and labor practices amid the coronavirus pandemic as it fired a warehouse protest...
Amazon Fires Three Critics of Warehouse Conditions in Pandemic April 15, 2020 By Aakriti Bhalla and Jeffrey Dastin Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it had fired three critics of the company’s pandemic response for workplace violations, dismissals that...
Amazon Exec Called Fired Worker ‘Not Smart’ in Leaked Memo April 3, 2020 By Spencer Soper and Matt Day A senior Amazon.com Inc. executive called a fired Staten Island warehouse worker “not smart or articulate” in internal discussions about...