On Thursday, the President signed into law federal legislation that will, among other things, require employers with 50 to 499 employees to provide two weeks of paid sick leave for employees self-quarantining and/or experiencing the symptoms of coronavirus, as... More »
Rideshare companies Uber and Lyft have announced plans to provide funds for drivers affected by coronavirus. According to The Hill, an Uber spokesperson stated on Friday that the rideshare company will make funds available to drivers infected or quarantined du... More »
For those who have yet to cue in, professional wrestling is fake—the conflicts are fabricated, the fights are choreographed, and the maneuvers are (in theory) designed to prevent injury. Yet, for anyone who has spent even a few minutes watching World Wrestling... More »
As it currently stands, Michigan is the only state in the union to explicitly prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of weight. That may change in the coming months, as a bill was recently filed in Massachusetts which seeks to ban weight-based employm... More »
In 2017, ICE agents reportedly showed up to labor dispute proceedings at the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) on two separate occasions in an attempt to arrest undocumented immigrant workers. Officials suspect that employers tipped off... More »
As the debate over the employment status of Uber drivers continues, one employment benefit raises a set of questions not presented by the others: overtime pay. Uber has suggested that if it is forced to reclassify its drivers as employees, it will cap its driv... More »