Top 11 Stories This Week, 40 Hour Work Week, Target's Dumb Memos

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Walmart to Close Super Mall Store in Long Island

 

When Walmart opened this store in Sunrise Mall, Long Island, it was the first of it's kind...A Walmart inside a Shopping Mall.  Now the company announced it won't be renewing its lease for 130,000 square feet this March.

 

House votes down ObamaCare's 30-hour workweek, 252-172

The House on Thursday in a 252-172 vote approved legislation that would waive fees on businesses that do not offer health insurance to employees working fewer than 40 hours per week.

The legislation – which has been at the center of a heavy corporate lobbying campaign – only received 12 Democratic votes. Eighteen Democrats backed the bill during a House vote on the same issue last spring. Read more at The Hill.

Related: 30-hr week battle rages

WHAT'S NEWS THIS WEEK   1. House Votes to Change Full-Time Definition to a 40-Hour Work Week The House of Representatives today passed a bill to change the definition of a full-time employee under the Affordable Care Act to one who works 40 hours per week, rather than 30 hours per week. The bill passed by a vote of 252-172.   2. Target's Dumb Internal Guide to Millennials (and Other Generations) Leaked Retail monster Target has more than 360,000 employees. Some of them are oldies; some of them are Gen Xers; and some of them are the dreaded millennials. Fortunately, the company has a neatly stereotyped training guide for managers to navigate this generational minefield.

3. Analysts Predict Whole Foods Buying Spree 2015 could be the year Whole Foods buys up all their competition.

4. Stop & Shop Certified LEED Silver Stop & Shop has 13 LEED certified stores in the U.S.

5. AFL-CIO President Pushes Obama on Ensuring Overtime Pay for Workers Under $51k “The spotlight is now on raising wages,” Trumka The Washington Post. “Raising wages is the key unifying progressive value that ties all the pieces of economic and social justice together. We think the president has a great opportunity to show that he is behind that agenda by increasing the overtime regulations to a minimum threshold of $51,168. That’s the marker.”

6. Obama Pitches Free Community College Plan $60 billion dollar proposal will provide two free years of community college to all Americans. Your move, Congress.

7. Jobless rate fell to 5.6 percent in December Economy added 252,000 jobs, beating expectations

8. Zara is close to organizing in NYC, Workers received wage increases in December after speaking out against stagnant benefits, now workers need a final push to organize the store.

9. Why the Media Started Caring About the American Worker Again Coverage is up on labor since the recession, but there are few labor reporters out there.

 

10. Fresh Market Signs on to Tomato Pickers' Rights

The Fresh Market announced it has partnered with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a Florida-based tomato workers’ rights organization, to purchase more tomatoes from participating growers.

 

 

11. Congress Seeks to bring back Anti-Privacy Law