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February 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Tala Doumani

Yesterday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a new COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave plan. Under the new plan, employees are eligible for up to 80 hours of paid leave for COVID-19 related absences. The statute, which was codified in the California Labor Code, applies to employers with 26 or more employees. The scope […]

COVID-19 and Whistleblowers: The Expansion of Legislative Protections and Judicial Guidance

Feb 9, 2022 Melody Burke

On March 30, 2020, after complaining to management about the lack of personal protective equipment and distancing measures designed to ensure health and safety, an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls organized a warehouse-worker walkout to protest unsafe working conditions relating to the pandemic. That same day, he was fired. Throughout the pandemic, whistleblowers like Christian […]

Remote Work in the United States

Jan 21, 2022 Brendan Lind

The Number of Remote Workers Remote workers or, as classified by the U.S. Census Bureau, “home-based workers,” are those employed workers who primarily complete their work duties at home. Traditionally, remote workers have comprised a very small percentage of the American workforce. In 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, only 6% of the […]

GOP Senators Owe Judge Sung an Apology

Jan 19, 2022 Andrew Strom

In December, the Senate confirmed Jennifer Sung to a seat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals by a 50-49 vote along party lines. Sung had been serving as one of the three members of the Oregon Employment Relations Board, a state agency that oversees labor relations in the public sector. During her four-year tenure […]

How Not to Read the OSH Act

Jan 19, 2022 Sachin S. Pandya

In staying OSHA’s COVID-19 emergency temporary standard, six U.S. Supreme Court Justices joined an opinion that the ETS was likely beyond OSHA’s authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. Here I’ll show you how the Court read the OSH Act in an embarrassingly flimsy way by flouting two basic rules for reading […]

January 7, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The Supreme Court will hear fast-tracked oral arguments today in a consolidated set of cases challenging the Biden administration’s OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) protecting workers against contracting COVID-19 at work and challenging a similar mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The OSHA ETS requires companies with 100 or more employees […]

January 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work appears here to stay. As infection rates have surged in recent weeks, many employers across the country have instructed their employees to continue working remotely, putting a halt to company return-to-office plans. And it appears increasingly likely that working from home will remain the long-term norm—at least […]

#Antiwork & the Digital Praise of Idleness

Dec 31, 2021 Tiran Bajgiran

“If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.” — Lane Kirkland Is a worker revolution quietly brewing in cyberspace? The Covid era has witnessed unprecedented grassroots mobilization of workers on digital platforms, who are finding community in pushing back against exploitative employers. Common to these […]

The Healthcare Conundrum: Who Protects Our Protectors?

Dec 29, 2021 Jasmine Loo

The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a heavy toll on the healthcare workers of America. From having to deny patients a bed due to a shortage of resources, being abused and harassed for advocating vaccines, being unable to talk to and reassure patients due to having to care for twice the usual […]

December 22, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Yesterday, the Kellogg strike ended after striking workers ratified a new contract broadening the scope of the company’s cost-of-living wage adjustments to cover all employees. The eleven-week strike started in early October, spanning four of Kellogg’s breakfast cereal plants. The agreement concludes a monthslong contentious negotiation, during which Kellogg controversially threatened to permanently replace striking […]

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