Facebook has reached a settlement in a group of lawsuits alleging that its policy of allowing targeted advertisements for employment, housing, and credit applications discriminates on the basis of age, gender, and other protected categories. The lawsuits were... More »
The California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the state may roll back or eliminate certain pension benefits without violating the state’s Constitution. In Cal Fire Local 2881 v. CalPERS, the court upheld the California legislature’s elimination of a... More »
The Department of Labor is close to passing a new overtime law, reports Bloomberg. Under the proposed regulation, which would update federal overtime requirements for the first time in 15 years, workers who earn less than $35,000 per year will automatically b... More »
Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he would make a second run at the presidency. At his announcement, Sanders railed against “the powerful special interests that dominate our economic and political life.” In response, the Trump camp... More »
The National Labor Relations Board is calling for amicus briefs on whether it should continue to exert jurisdiction over charter schools. In two decisions handed down in 2016, the Board held that charter schools, which are privately owned but publicly funded,... More »
Bloomberg reports that NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb wants to ban workers from displaying Scabby the Rat at strikes and picket lines. Scabby is an inflatable balloon created by labor organizers from the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftwor... More »
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first opinion for the Supreme Court is a win for arbitration. Yesterday, Kavanaugh delivered a unanimous opinion in Henry Schein v. Archer and White Sales holding that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) requires a court to enforce a... More »
The government shutdown rolls on, and with it the suffering of federal employees, who completed their first period without a paycheck yesterday. As previously reported, the shutdown effects some 800,000 federal workers, none of whom will be paid until they ar... More »
Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board announced that it will extend the deadline for receiving public comments on its proposed joint-employer rule until at least January 14. Under the proposed rule, a company would be deemed a joint employer of anothe... More »
Graduate and postdoctoral students at Columbia University voted 1035 to 720 to approve the school’s proposed bargaining framework, paving the way for negotiations after a years-long struggle. The university’s bargaining framework, which the administration pro... More »
Public sector unions in Oregon are under attack, reports Oregon Public Broadcasting. On Tuesday, two anti-union lobbying groups—the National Right to Work Legal Foundation and the Freedom Foundation—filed suit in federal court on behalf of ten public sector e... More »
Better family leave and support policies could incentivize millions of workers to rejoin the workforce, according to research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. Labor participation rates in the United States have fallen considerably in re... More »
March 20th, 2019