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OnlyFans, a social media platform that allows people to sell explicit photos of themselves, has boomed during the pandemic. But competition on the site means many won’t earn much.

The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change.

The election, expected early next year, will be one of the few times that employees of the e-commerce giant have had an opportunity to decide whether to join a union.

The complaint, which targets the company’s hiring of immigrants on temporary visas, opens a new front in Washington’s battle against Big Tech.

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.

A task force assembled by M.I.T. examined how technology has changed, and will change, the work force.

A successful ballot measure in California makes drivers and other workers contractors, but the companies face continued pushback.

The technology giant said it had suspended future business with the iPhone assembler Pegatron pending corrective actions. The Taiwanese manufacturer broke rules limiting student employee work hours.

A group that also includes Lyft and DoorDash has spent nearly $200 million to support a California proposition that could save them from a new labor law.

The ruling adds new urgency to a ballot measure in the state that would exempt the companies from a new labor law intended to give gig workers more employment rights.

Ultranauts has been developing creative ways to hire, manage and motivate a far-flung and diverse work force for seven years.

A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.

Four weeks before the election, the Trump administration has announced stricter rules for the H-1B visa program, which U.S. companies have long valued.

As the president clashes with the courts, some companies and investors say tougher limits on temporary work visas will help push jobs overseas.