Amy's Baking Company worker rules – Business Insider.

Nightmarish Arizona Restaurant Has Some Of The Strictest Employee Rules We’ve Ever Seen

Song Chao: Portraits of workers at a hydropower manufacturing facility in China (PHOTOS)..

Daily Kos: Texas Republicans reject 'overregulation.' Of exploding fertilizer plants, not women's bodies..

Digital Health Records’ Risks Emerge as Deaths Blamed on Systems – Bloomberg.

Electronic health records are supposed to improve medical care by providing physicians quick and easy access to a patient’s history, prescriptions, lab results and other vital data. While the new computerized systems have decreased some kinds of errors, such as those caused by doctors’ illegible prescriptions, the shift away from paper has also created new problems, with sometimes dire consequences.

11 Illegal Interview Questions – Business Insider.

McDonald's, Walmart, Others Probed Over ATM-Style Payroll Cards.

Justin Carter, Teen Jailed For Facebook Comment, Reportedly On Suicide Watch.

Glastonbury: the casual ageism directed at the Rolling Stones is really decrepit | Hadley Freeman | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Federal judge says ADA class action against Starbucks can proceed, include all Calif. stores | Legal Newsline.

Police Just Violating All The Constitutional Amendments Now.

In addition to Third Amendment violations, the Mitchells are suing for violations of the fourth and 14th Amendments, assault and battery, conspiracy, defamation, abuse of process, malicious prosecution, negligence and emotional distress.

Crazy Eddie fraudster says SEC can’t keep up – MarketWatch.

You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal | Wired Opinion | Wired.com.

In Smoking Cases, Interminable Delay Is the Real Due Process Violation.

Of Citizens and Poodles | Boston Review.

The New Economics of Part-Time Employment – NYTimes.com.

How the Drug War Can Turn Environmental Activism Into a Deadly Undertaking | Alternet.

Job applicants' Facebook pages: Ignore them..

Corporate managers are increasingly looking at job applicants’ social media profiles as a way to glean more information about potential hires,…

The worst things about working at a grim Amazon facility – Salon.com.

The whole account of life at the Amazon warehouse is shockingly grim and bleak, conjuring up images of a technological wasteland from a Philip K. Dick novel. Here are some of the most disturbing details:…

SCOTUS: No right to remain silent unless you speak up – Salon.com.

Teen Jailed As Terrorist Threat After Making Sarcastic Comments on Facebook | Alternet.

Disabled workers paid just pennies an hour – and it's legal – Investigations.

The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed – ProPublica.

This is not Mexico. It is not Guatemala or Honduras. This is Chicago, New Jersey, Boston.

The people here are not day laborers looking for an odd job from a passing contractor. They are regular employees of temp agencies working in the supply chain of many of America’s largest companies…

Payroll cards: “It costs too much to get my money” (#OWS) | mathbabe.

Just to be clear, these fees are illegal in the context of credit cards, but financial regulation has not touched payroll cards yet. Yet another way that the poor are financialized, which is to say they’re physically and psychologically separated from their money. Get on this, CFPB!

Update: an excellent article about this issue was written by Sarah Jaffe a couple of weeks ago (hat tip Suresh Naidu). It ends with an awesome quote by Stephen Lerner: “No scam is too small or too big for the wizards of finance.”

I Got Raped, Then My Problems Started | VICE United States.

Open data can promote social injustice..

Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student – The Daily Progress: News.

The Technium: Personal Shadow Outsourcing.

The Second-Biggest Myth About Unpaid Internships: They're Just for the Rich – Jordan Weissmann – The Atlantic.

If anything, poor and middle class students are extra likely to get stuck in unpaid internships. Rich kids, by and large, seem to prefer collecting a paycheck.

Such were the findings of a fascinating 2010 study conducted for Intern Bridge, a consulting firm that specializes in college recruiting, and one of the few major sources of data on the internship market. After analyzing survey responses from thousands of college students, the paper concluded: "Our findings do not support the common contention that students from the wealthiest families have greater access to unpaid internships, even among most for profit companies. Low income students have a much higher level of participation in unpaid internships than students from high income families."

Bank of America whistle-blower’s bombshell: “We were told to lie” – Salon.com.