by Beth Huffington | Nov 29, 2021 | Companies, News
Pharmacies have to share the blame for the opioid crisis, according to a federal jury. In a case involving three chain pharmacies in two Ohio counties, the jury found the pharmacies responsible for dispensing opioids like “a gumball machine.” The case involved...
by Beth Huffington | Nov 22, 2021 | Companies, News
Cargo rates and delays are proving a nightmare for many retailers, just when they should be making their largest sales push of the year. For years, efficiency in retail has meant products arriving exactly when they’re needed. Storage is expensive, and keeping...
by Beth Huffington | Nov 15, 2021 | Companies, News
A publishing merger is possibly about to violate American antitrust laws, according to the U.S. Justice Department Penguin Random House, the largest American publishing company and largest publishing company in the world, is in talks to buy Simon and Schuster, the...
by Beth Huffington | Nov 9, 2021 | Companies, News
Macy’s will be sweetening the pot for new hires, but not swiftly. While business news is calling the current state of affairs a worker shortage, it isn’t. If you try to buy a coffee and it costs $3, but you only want to spend $1, is that a coffee shortage?...
by Beth Huffington | Nov 1, 2021 | Companies, News
McDonald’s employees in 12 cities across the United States walked off the job on October 26, 2021, in protest of the company’s poor response to reports of harassment. At least 50 workers have filed charges against McDonald’s as a company for verbal, physical, and...
by Beth Huffington | Oct 25, 2021 | Companies, News
Unionizing Amazon has seemed like an out-of-reach goal since the company broke its first billion. With 1.3 million workers across 185 distribution centers and an untold number of other worksites in virtually every developed country in the world, it is a behemoth, and...
by Beth Huffington | Oct 19, 2021 | Companies, News, Social Media, Technology
Facebook is paying over $14 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Justice Department over visa abuse and unfair hiring practices. In December 2020, the Justice Department filed the lawsuit against the social media giant, asserting that the...
by Beth Huffington | Oct 11, 2021 | Companies, News
Merck applied on October 11, 2021, for the FDA to authorize its antiviral pill to treat COVID-19, a first of its kind in this pandemic. So far, all FDA-backed treatments for coronavirus require at least an injection to administer, if not an IV. This means they...
by Beth Huffington | Oct 4, 2021 | Companies, News, Social Media
Frances Haugen, a data scientist formerly employed by Google, Pinterest, and Facebook, revealed herself Sunday night as the whistleblower who shared that Facebook has no interest in fighting misinformation. Haugen, who will be testifying about Facebook before Congress...
by Beth Huffington | Sep 27, 2021 | News
British gas stations had to close all over the country on Sunday, in a fuel shortage caused by a lack of truck drivers. Due to a combination of the pandemic, Brexit, and simply a lack of interest in the job among young jobseeking Britons, Britain is experiencing a...
