Tag: workers

Cracking the Race Condition Code in Ruby on Rails with Sneaker Workers

Have you ever encountered a mind-boggling issue while working on a project? Picture this: a seemingly innocent sneaker acted as the queue adapter for background tasks in my project. Intriguing, right? Well, buckle up because this story involves the unexpected twist of a race condition bug wreaking h...

Overburdened: The High Suicide Rate of Healthcare Workers

It’s been a rough few years for those of us in the healthcare professions. Our lives, dominated by COVID-related concerns at home, were equally dominated by COVID-concerns at work. On the job, there were fewer and fewer of us around as exploitation and COVID-related stressors led doc...

Are American Voters Workers or Consumers?

Right now, the United Auto Workers are on strike, targeting a small number of auto plants in an attempt to get a pay raise and other concessions from management. Joe Biden is planning to walk the picket line with the striking workers, a first for a sitting president. The pundits, of cou...

Why there is (actually) no shortage of skilled workers in Germany???s tech sector

I am not against having more foreign workers in Germany. Personally, I believe in the growth of humanity through cultural exchange and I love it whenever I meet people who are willing to take on the never-ending battle with German bureaucracy and then struggle with the German language (and the ...

The 20% charge on your catering bill might not be distributed to service workers

Are you sure your server was tipped? A string of recent lawsuits accuse New York catering companies of adding a 20–30 percent “service charge” onto a bill, only to keep some or all of the fee, instead of distributing it to service employees. From November 2014 to May 2015, Dicks...

No Gratuity for Domestic Workers ??? UAE

End of Service Gratuity for domestic workers in the U.A.E. has been amended, by virtue of the new law governing domestic workers, which came into effect in December of 2022. That law is the U.A.E. Federal Decree Law of ???9 of 2022 on Domestic Workers. This law had cancelled the previous law, ...

Dubai: The Right Choice for Remote Workers?

Are you a freelancer, contractor, or remote worker wondering if Dubai is the right choice for you? As someone who has been working with companies abroad for over 2.5 years, I recently began to consider this very question. In this article, I’ll break down the financial advantages of moving to D...