A former SoulCycle executive filed a complaint on Tuesday accusing the company of discriminating against her before pregnancy. In a complaint filed with the New York Employment Equity Commission, Jordan Kafenbaum said she was aborted after revealing she was pregnant and then fired 32 days after giving birth. The complaint …
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Expressed ice maker Ben and Jerry are turning fire on the rhetoric of UK migration
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government has embroiled in an unlikely series with ice maker Ben and Jerry’s over its approach to migrants arriving by boat from France, after the market criticized the increasingly bellicose rhetoric. Migrants prepare remotely at the port of Dover, in Dover, UK 12 August 2020. …
Read More »‘Hundreds killed’ due to Covid-19 misinformation
Copyright Reuters Image by image Facebook, Twitter and chat apps like WhatsApp have proved a fertile ground for unfounded rumors about Covid-19 At least 800 people died worldwide from coronavirus-related traffic information in the first three months of this year, researchers say. A study published in the American Journal of …
Read More »Penguins will not renew contracts from Gonchar, Martin, Recchi
The Pittsburgh Penguins will not renew the contracts of assistant coaches Sergei Gonchar, Jacques Martin and Mark Recchi, it was announced today by Executive Vice President and General Manager Jim Rutherford. “We want to thank Sergei, Jacques and Mark for their many contributions to the Penguins over the years, and …
Read More »Delayed ‘Diana’ Musical to Stream on Netflix
With Broadway still closed, Netflix is doing for the theater community what it and other streaming services have done for the film industry: content that cannot be seen where it was originally intended. On Wednesday, the Los Gatos-based company announced that it was streaming a specially-filmed version of “Diana: A …
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