Popular baby clothing brand Kyte Baby is facing backlash after an employee’s request to work remotely while her newborn was in the NICU was denied. The employee made the request because her newborn, whom she adopted, was in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Texas hospital, according to two apology videos made by Kyte […]
A former bookkeeper at the Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD) was charged with multiple felonies stemming from an investigation into alleged embezzlement at the local nonprofit over the past year. Belenda Lane, 68, allegedly admitted to a Carlsbad police officer to embezzling more than $260,000 in an estimated 680 transactions through a scheme that saw […]
A man was shot and killed as his vehicle was being worked on at a 24-hour tire shop, Texas police say. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene of the Houston business Tuesday, Jan. 16, according to a news release from the Houston Police Department. Asecond man was injured and transported to a local […]
Jan. 18—A report from the State Auditor & Inspector’s Office accuses an administrative assistant from the Payne County Sheriff’s Office of misappropriating funds. State Auditor Cindy Byrd‘s forensic audit reported $137,698.52 in misappropriated and questioned expenditures by administrative assistant Linda Farley between 2010-2022. The report said Farley is accused of using a Sheriff’s Office credit […]
The owner of the clothing brand Kyte Baby has apologized, twice, after an employee was allegedly denied a work-from-home option after adopting a 22-week-old premature baby. Ying Liu, the founder of Kyte Baby, has taken to TikTok to respond to the criticism after employee Marissa Hughes was canned after being denied her work-from-home request to […]
The state of Minnesota reached a settlement Wednesday with a Blaine pet store that fired a new employee shortly after learning she was pregnant. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights said Pet Ranch, which operates the Four Paws and a Tail pet shop in the Northtown Mall in Blaine, violated a state civil rights law […]
Russian propaganda media are sharing a video that they claim shows a Ukrainian military enlistment office employee being shot. Ukraine’s National Police has confirmed the video is fake. Source: press service for the National Police of Ukraine (NPU) Details: The National Police said Russian media were sharing a two-second video that the Russians described as […]
A 38-year-old employee has been shot dead at a supermarket in western Germany, law enforcement agencies said late Monday. The incident occurred at a store in the town of Mörfelden-Walldorf, south of Frankfurt. The 48-year-old alleged perpetrator then committed suicide, the public prosecutor’s office and the police said. The man entered the discount store around […]
An employee at the cloud-security firm Cloudflare shared a TikTok appearing to show her being fired. `People are praising her online for maintaining composure and defending herself. The video has sparked a workplace-etiquette debate, with Cloudflare’s CEO even weighing in. A corporate employee is going viral after she recorded and posted a TikTok video appearing […]
Jan. 12—HENDERSON — Jamie Dittmeyer, the city’s human resources director, shared some insight into Henderson’s employee shortages, as well as herself. She’s been working since August, after former Director Elgin Lane retired. “I can’t believe it has been that long,” she said. “Time flies by, it really does.” Besides handling benefits for employees, she’s also […]
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission selected Susan Myers as its new executive director on Thursday. Myers will replace Ron Bersin, who is retiring after leading the agency since 2006. She has been an employee of OGEC since 2018, first working as an investigator. “I appreciate your belief in me,” Myers told the commission on Thursday. […]
A Tampa police officer was fired Thursday after the department said he threatened to detain an employee of the company that towed his personal vehicle. John Holmstrom was on duty on Aug. 30, 2023, when he learned that his car had been towed from his apartment complex, the police department said in a news release. […]