“More than 60 frontline UK healthcare workers took their own life at the beginning of the pandemic.” The i, 9 September 2021. The i newspaper has reported new data claiming to show that 64 frontline healthcare workers died by suicide at th
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Snopes→ AP Source: Biden Requiring Federal Workers to Get COVID Shot
Biden will sign a new executive order to require vaccination for employees of the executive branch and contractors who do business with the federal government.
Snopes→ Shortages of Supplies and Workers Will Delay Gulf Rebuilding
Ida slammed into the Gulf Coast at a time when building contractors were already grappling with severe shortages of workers and depleted supply chains.
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: A Study Does NOT Say Fully Vaccinated Health Care Workers Carrying 251 Times Viral Load of Unvaccinated Workers Pose Threat To Unvaccinated Patients, Co-Workers
Does a study say fully vaccinated health care workers carry 251 times the viral load of unvaccinated and pose a threat to unvaccinated patients and co-workers? No, that's not true: This is a distortion of what the published paper actually
Snopes→ Nursing Home to Workers: Get Vaccine or Lose Your Job
The new requirement comes from Genesis Healthcare, which has 70,000 employees at nearly 400 nursing homes and senior communities.
Snopes→ Biden Orders Tough New Vaccination Rules for Federal Workers
Federal workers will be required to sign forms attesting they’ve been vaccinated against the coronavirus or comply with other requirements.
Snopes→ Veterans Affairs Requires COVID-19 Vaccination for Health Care Workers
The department's move came on a day when nearly 60 leading medical and health care organizations issued a call for health care facilities to require their workers to get vaccinated.
Full Fact - All content→ Mandatory Covid-19 vaccine is only for care home workers
A post on Facebook claims that a law mandating the Covid-19 vaccine has been passed through the House of Lords without an impact assessment. This is true, but refers only to an amendment of the Health and Social Care Act which will make it a requ
Snopes→ NYC to Require Vaccines or Weekly Testing for City Workers
“This is about our recovery. This is about what we need to do to bring back New York City," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Snopes→ Frito-Lay Workers End Strike
The workers were on the picket line for nearly three weeks.
Snopes→ Frito-Lay Workers Allege Colleague Died on Assembly Line, Was Moved Aside
Striking employees allege deplorable work conditions.
Snopes→ 52 Dead in Bangladesh Factory Fire; Workers Locked Inside
Many workers jumped from the upper floors of the factory, and at least 26 suffered injuries, the United News of Bangladesh agency reported.
FactCheck.org→ Is Unemployment Bonus Keeping Workers on Sideline?
Despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate of 6.1% in April — representing 9.8 million people who say they are actively looking for work — many employers are reporting that they can’t find people to hire. Republicans say the $300 a w
Snopes→ Nervous Workers Struggle to Adjust to New Mask Policies
An abrupt relaxation of mask policies has left workers at supermarkets and other stores reeling as they try to sort out what the new environment means for their own safety and relationship with customers.
Snopes→ McDonald’s Raising US Workers’ Pay in Company-Owned Stores
McDonald's is the latest restaurant chain to announce pay raises, following Chipotle, Olive Garden, and others.
TruthOrFiction→ ‘Every Year, Americans Spend $153,000,000,000 to Subsidize McDonald’s and Walmart’s Underpaid Workers’
On May 12 2021, a screenshot of a tweet by former Labor Secretary Robert Reich appeared across platforms amid a larger discussion around employee treatment and pay by corporations. His tweet contained the claim that American taxpayers subsidized $153,0
Top Fact Checks→ BJP workers in West Bengal vandalized their own office over the non-availability of medical oxygen.
The incident is related to some disgruntled BJP workers vandalizing their own party office over candidates' ticket allocation during the WB elections.
Snopes→ Is Crocs Giving Away Free Footwear to Healthcare Workers?
The company is reportedly providing 10,000 free pairs a day to healthcare workers from now until May 14, 2021.
TruthOrFiction→ Did Dollar General Workers Quit and Call for a General Strike?
A call to action by a trio of former Dollar General employees in Maine went viral after they announced their resignations on Twitter. Berndt Erikson’s first posted aa photograph declaring the group’s intent on May 3 2021. “Got real ti
TruthOrFiction→ Agriculture Workers Are Killed on the Job at a Higher Rate Than Cops,’ ‘They Make about a Third as Much Money’
In April 2021, a popular tweet contained the claim that agricultural workers were likelier to die on the job than law enforcement officers, adding that farm labor also generally pays far less: Reminder that agriculture workers are killed on the job
Snopes→ Biden to Sign $15 Minimum Wage for Federal Contract Workers
There are an estimated 5 million contract workers in the federal government, according to a posting last year for the Brookings Institution by Paul Light, a public policy professor at New York University.
Full Fact - All content→ Zero hours workers not excluded from self-isolation payments
“We need to support people to self-isolate and there are still many, many people who are excluded from the government’s financial support for self isolation - people who are in insecure work, on zero hour contracts and all the rest of it.&
Snopes→ FBI: NYC Morgue Workers Stole Credit Cards from Dead People
The FBI arrested two former city employees accused of stealing bank cards from dead bodies taken to New York City’s mortuary and racking up thousands of dollars in charges.
TruthOrFiction→ ‘A Click Farm in Asia Where Low Paid Workers Are Used to Inflate Video Views and Trick Advertisers’
On April 1 2021, the following post to Reddit’s r/interestingasfuck hit r/all, purportedly depicting a low-paid “click farm” employee on the job — sitting in front of dozens of iPhones and smartphones, presumably engaged in clic
Top Fact Checks→ Amazon delivery workers in the US have to urinate in bottles.
There is widespread evidence to prove that Amazon delivery workers in the US have no resort but to pee in bottles.
Full Fact - All content→ Is there a precedent for mandatory vaccines for care home workers?
On Monday the Telegraph reported that care home workers would be required “by law” to have the Covid-19 vaccination in “a historic legal change” that had been requested by the Prime Minister and health secretary Matt Hancock. Mr
Snopes→ Are Amazon Workers Forced to Pee in Bottles?
The issue of reasonable ability to use the restroom for Amazon workers is an ongoing complaint.
Snopes→ Do McDonald’s Workers in Denmark Make $22 an Hour?
The fight over a minimum wage is often centered over McDonald's.
Top Fact Checks→ TMC workers vandalized BJP’s raths in a godown in Kadarpara.
Besides BJP's accusation, there is no evidence that TMC workers were responsible for the alleged vandalism.
Snopes→ Did Coca-Cola’s Diversity Training Tell Workers ‘Try To Be Less White’?
Opponents of critical race theory and diversity training railed against Coca-Cola in February 2021, but with no real evidence.
Snopes→ Vaccine Delays Leave Grocery Workers Feeling Expendable
As panicked Americans cleared supermarkets of toilet paper and food last spring, grocery employees gained recognition as among the most indispensable of the pandemic’s front-line workers.
Top Fact Checks→ By raising minimum wages to $15/hour, 31% of black workers and 26% of Latino workers would get a pay raise.
The rise in minimum wages to $15 per hour would increase the pay of one-third of African Americans and one-fourth of Latinos.
Liste→ This image of healthcare workers protesting against Myanmar’s military coup has been doctored
An image shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter purports to show protesters in Myanmar holding a banner that reads: "If you don’t fight, you will end up like Thailand". However, the image has been doctored; the original photo shows he
Snopes→ Did Biden Admin Tell Keystone Pipeline Workers ‘Find Another Job’?
Digitally manipulated images bearing misleading chyrons are common online.
Snopes→ Trapped for 2 Weeks, 11 Workers Rescued from China Gold Mine
The cause of the accident is still under investigation.
Snopes→ Did Domino’s Pizza Workers Save a Loyal Customer’s Life?
A 2016 news story about Domino's Pizza employees saving the life of a customer resurfaced in online advertisements nearly five years later.
Snopes→ Google Workers Form New Labor Union, A Tech Industry Rarity
The union's first members include engineers, as well as sales associates, administrative assistants and the workers who test self-driving vehicles.
Top Fact Checks→ Melinda Gates has said Black people must be vaccinated first for COVID-19 after health care workers.
In June, Melinda Gates said Black people "should be," and not must be, first in line, after health care workers, to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Liste→ Social media posts share false claim that South Korea’s Covid-19 frontline workers are paid $13 daily wage
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Facebook claim that South Korean frontline health workers are paid US $13.35 (14,600 South Korean won) per day during the coronavirus pandemic. The claim is false; South Korea's Health Ministry told AFP that the f
Snopes→ ‘Relieved’: US Health Workers Start Getting COVID-19 Vaccine
The first shipments of the newly-approved Pfizer vaccine arrived at hospitals around the country on Dec. 14.