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Rainforest Alliance certifications serve two purposes, it protects the environment as well as the rights of workers. A farm can earn the seal by following the guidelines known as the Sustainable Agriculture Standard as well as additional specific ...

Californians are accustomed to living in moving vehicles. The 378,652 Ventura County workers who commute know what it means to sit in traffic for hours, even if work is just 15 miles away. California commuters spend so much time in their love-hate ...

For hundreds of women plantation labourers working on coffee estates, harassment begins as soon as they get into the pick-up vehicles sent by the estates.Men and women are literally loa...

Three workers at the Just Us! Coffee Shop have filed a new complaint with the province's ministry of labour. The workers claim they were denied breaks during their shifts at the Spring Garden Road café. They say it's mandatory for employees to be ...

Now employers have a reason to discourage their workers from going out for a coffee, as a study reveals that businesses lose 11.4 billion dollars every year due to employees taking coffee breaks.

tags: wages, workers, labor, jobs, U.S. ST. PAUL, Minn. (Press Associates) - Peanut butter or jelly? Juice or coffee? Dry spaghetti or ravioli in a can? Those aren't decisions Rep. Jason Metsa usually wrestles with in the grocery store, but the Iron ...

Heather Gable has had it rough. During the recession, sales dropped off at Finger Lakes Coffee House, the business she owns in Van Etten, a small Upstate New York town. She had to lay off most of her employees. At least there's one recent ...

DALLAS-FORT WORTH - Starbucks Corp. opened ten locations of its Seattle's Best Coffee chain on May 20, 2013, which was the largest number of openings in a single market on a single day in Starbucks history. DeSoto-based Palomar Modular Buildings LLC ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/jlpldn/coffee_market_in) has announced the addition of the "Coffee Market in China: Business Report 2013" report to their offering. The aim of this study is to ...