Walmart returns its store pickers to pulling eight-bin carts after a summer of lighter loads
Walmart told store pickers to go back to pulling eight-bin carts, undoing a May safety limit, Business Insider reported. The company calls the summer limit a test and says its safety rules never changed, so the rollback arrives without being called one.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
HD Hyundai gave Lee Sang-kyun its shipyards and its data-center and reactor plans, but put its 830 billion won engine expansion under Han Joo-seok. The only new venture with a budget so far extends the engine business the group already runs.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives35
- Confidence70
Labor economist says subtle heat effects on workers cost the economy trillions of dollars a year
R. Jisung Park says the damage from warming shows up as more on-the-job injuries, delayed trains and lost productivity on days too ordinary to make the news, and some of those injuries happen indoors.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives62
- Confidence52
Korea's sentencing panel sets the base term for a worker's death at 18 months
The Supreme Court's Sentencing Commission recommends up to 15 years for an owner or chief executive when a worker dies, and reaching that figure takes the aggravated bracket, multiple aggravating factors and a 50% uplift.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption12
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives45
- Confidence58
The labor ministry found 138 safety violations at the HL Mando plant where Kim Seung-mo died
Two months after a subcontracted worker was crushed at Pyeongtaek, HL Mando apologised in writing and promised annual external audits and more safety staff. It put no cost on either.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption15
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives78
- Confidence55