Obama order forces Philly rail workers back on job

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Workers, employers and travelers in the Philadelphia area have been forced to make contingency plans as a commuter rail strike adds to the region's summer transportation woes.

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Fast-Food CEOs Earn Supersize Salaries; Workers Earn Small Potatoes

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hide captionAccording to a new report, YUM! (owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut) compensated its CEO $22 million in 2013.

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Fast-Food CEOs Earn Supersize Salaries; Workers Earn Small Potatoes

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hide captionAccording to a new report, YUM! (owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut) compensated its CEO $22 million in 2013.

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Lost In Translation: French Rule On Work Email Covers Fewer Workers

She can now enjoy the view instead.

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We updated this post with a major development at 1:26 p.m. ET. Friday

Reports that an agreement between French unions and the consulting and tech industries would force 1 million workers to turn off their phones after 6 p.m. turns out to be exaggerated.

A French reader tweeted us a link to her blog in which she noted that the agreement covers only those workers who work on a daily contract, and is an amendment to a 1999 agreement between the two sides that introduced, among other things, France's 35-hour workweek. She writes:

"The new agreement was proposed to control the amount of hours worked by

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