Today’s News & Commentary—August 12, 2022
In today’s news & commentary: The FAST Act makes its way to the California Senate Floor; New York companies face billions in lawsuits for paying workers once every two weeks instead of weekly. Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed AB 257, the...
Today’s News and Commentary — August 11, 2022
In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 10, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a $369 billion investment in clean energy and arguably “one of the single biggest investments ever made on climate in the world,” passed the Senate on Sunday along a narrow party-line vote, as Fred, Kevin, and Hannah documented...
A Troubling Holding on Jurisdiction for NLRB Consent Orders
Last week, in NLRB. v. Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC, a divided Fourth Circuit panel, led by two Trump appointees, held that it does not have jurisdiction to enforce an NLRB “consent order” — a Board order issued against a consenting party that has...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 8, 2022
In today’s news and commentary, a major spending bill passes the Senate, while the labor market exceeds analyst expectations — and then some. More big news from Washington. The $740 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that Kevin teed up over the weekend...
The Flexibility to Be Paid in Chicken Sandwiches
Last week, a Chick-fil-A franchise in Hendersonville, North Carolina made news by asking for “volunteers” to work at the store’s drive-through window at a rate of five entrees (and zero dollars) per hour worked. A store representative justified the arrangement by...
Weekend News & Commentary—August 7, 2022
The big news this weekend comes out of Washington. As Hannah discussed for OnLabor on Thursday, the Inflation Reduction Act continued its rapid slog through the Senate this weekend. The Senate’s “vote-a-rama” began just after 11:30 p.m. last night, after Vice...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 5, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act appears to have enough support to pass both the House and Senate after Democrats brokered a deal with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). The bill, as currently written, has several provisions that will affect workers and businesses. It would...
Today’s News & Commentary—August 12, 2022
In today’s news & commentary: The FAST Act makes its way to the California Senate Floor; New York companies face billions in lawsuits for paying workers once every two weeks instead of weekly. Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed AB 257, the...
Today’s News and Commentary — August 11, 2022
In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 10, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a $369 billion investment in clean energy and arguably “one of the single biggest investments ever made on climate in the world,” passed the Senate on Sunday along a narrow party-line vote, as Fred, Kevin, and Hannah documented...
A Troubling Holding on Jurisdiction for NLRB Consent Orders
Last week, in NLRB. v. Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC, a divided Fourth Circuit panel, led by two Trump appointees, held that it does not have jurisdiction to enforce an NLRB “consent order” — a Board order issued against a consenting party that has...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 8, 2022
In today’s news and commentary, a major spending bill passes the Senate, while the labor market exceeds analyst expectations — and then some. More big news from Washington. The $740 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that Kevin teed up over the weekend...
The Flexibility to Be Paid in Chicken Sandwiches
Last week, a Chick-fil-A franchise in Hendersonville, North Carolina made news by asking for “volunteers” to work at the store’s drive-through window at a rate of five entrees (and zero dollars) per hour worked. A store representative justified the arrangement by...
Weekend News & Commentary—August 7, 2022
The big news this weekend comes out of Washington. As Hannah discussed for OnLabor on Thursday, the Inflation Reduction Act continued its rapid slog through the Senate this weekend. The Senate’s “vote-a-rama” began just after 11:30 p.m. last night, after Vice...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 5, 2022
The Inflation Reduction Act appears to have enough support to pass both the House and Senate after Democrats brokered a deal with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). The bill, as currently written, has several provisions that will affect workers and businesses. It would...
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