In recent years, the food service industry has been rife with workplace health safety issues. Food service workers have been attacked, stabbed, shot, and killed by customers in the restaurants where they work. According to one study, between 2017 and 2020, at least 77,000 violent or threatening incidents took place at California fast-food restaurants. Recent data indicate that the cost of workplace violence could be as much as $56 billion annually – and that’s likely an undercount. However, workplace health and safety issues are not limited to customer violence. Workers have also been made to work under unsafe and unsanitary conditions, such as restaurants with high kitchen temperatures and restaurants infested with vermin.
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The exponential growth of online child sexual exploitation, cyberbullying, and teen mental health issues is directly linked to the growth of social media. These negative impacts on children and teens are primarily due to algorithms designed to send streams of unsolicited materials that entice children into online engagements with strangers, exploit their personal data, and keep them online for longer periods of time at the same time that age verification features remain insufficient, enabling adults and children to pretend to be different ages – increasing the rates of child sexual abuse.
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