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January 30, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

In the wake of many, serious allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn, casino worker Brittany Bronson uses a New York Times op-ed to shine a bright light on wealth inequality and sexual abuse at work. Bronson analogizes the confidentiality required in a high-value sexual assault settlement to the silence with which many low-wage women endure […]

January 16, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The Department of Labor released new guidance that makes it easier for companies to hire unpaid interns. As we discussed here, the dividing line between ‘employee’ and ‘intern’ has been contested. Finding Obama-era DOL guidance too strict, the Second Circuit in 2016 created a ‘primary beneficiary’ test for analyzing the worker-employer relationship: where the worker benefits more, […]

January 2, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The new tax plan went into effect yesterday and will allow many pass-through companies to deduct up to 20% of their business income. The Boston Globe predicts that the change will lead gig workers to form LLCs in order to avail themselves of the deduction. The New York Times opines that this change will make […]

December 10, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Incarcerated men, women and children make up a third of California’s wildfire-fighting force. Doing dangerous and demanding 24-hour shifts, inmate-firefighters are paid $1 per hour. Their work and time off are the subject of a photo essay from the Marshall Project. The Atlantic identifies a tension between California’s need for firefighters and the state’s motivation […]

December 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The Department of Labor has published a proposed change to the rules around tip pooling. In 2011, the Obama Administration clarified the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations to reflect the Wage and Hour Division’s long-standing policy – based on 1974 FLSA amendments – that employers could never require staff to share tips, regardless of whether the employer paid a tipped or full minimum wage. The Trump Administration now proposes to […]

November 21, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

StreetsBlogUSA recaps a Demos study that recommends improving public transportation in order to address the racial gap in employment rates. Car ownership tracks race, and, for instance, black workers in Detroit are 13 times more likely to commute via public transportation than their white counterparts. As StreetsBlogUSA points out, the job mix generated by investment […]

November 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

1800 workers in New York City are in their eighth month striking against Charter Communications. After Charter bought Time Warner Cable in May 2016, Charter sought to substitute its standard contract for the collective bargaining agreement between Time Warner and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3. Workers—like Tanisha Smythe who is frequenting food banks […]

October 24, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

Under Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s budget proposal, taxes on ride share companies would increase by 15 cents per ride in 2018 and by 5 cents more per ride in 2019. This move comes in part due to advocacy by taxi companies, but ride share would remain the less expensive option in many cases. The proposed increase […]

October 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

On Tuesday, a House of Representatives bill to narrow the definition of joint employer passed out of committee in a party-line vote. The Save Local Business Act would limit employer liability under the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act to only those entities that “directly, actually and immediately” exert “significant control” […]

September 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

American cities are going wild as Amazon looks for a place to build its second headquarters and employ 50,000 people. Tucson businessmen sent a 21-foot cactus to Jeff Bezos’ office. Philadelphia and Tulsa have expressed openness to modifying their tax codes. Canadian cities, meanwhile, highlight their more stable political environment and looser immigration policy. Contemplating […]

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OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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