Earlier this year, the NLRB decided SuperShuttle DFW, Inc. v. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1338. In that case, the Board determined that a shuttle company’s drivers were correctly classified independent contractors. The Board took that opportunity to revi... More »
In February, Stormy Daniels published an op-ed arguing that exotic dancers should be “treated as freelancers, not employees.” In doing so, she criticized the California Supreme Court’s adoption of the “ABC test” in Dynamex. Under that test, a business that w... More »
On September 18, 2017, Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy. The toy retailer had been in decline since at least 2000, but ran into real trouble after a consortium of private equity and real estate firms bought the ailing private company in 2005 in a $6.6 billion l... More »
Joe Biden kicked off his presidential campaign by making an appeal to labor unions. At a union hall rally in Pittsburgh on Monday, Biden spoke before 600 people, promising to advocate for middle-class families and painting himself as a “union man.” While the... More »
According to data analyzed by the Wall Street Journal, black workers have benefitted the least from the United States’s recent economic boom. While inflation-adjusted weekly earnings for the median American rose 5.3% in the first quarter of 2019 compared with... More »
Yesterday was National Equal Pay Day, a holiday created in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity to raise awareness of gender pay disparities. In the United States, it is observed on the day of the year until which women would have to work to earn what... More »
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 »
May 1st, 2019