Today’s News & Commentary — June 3, 2021
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to wage a multi-year, "multi-agency effort to...
Today’s News & Commentary — June 3, 2021
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Today’s News & Commentary — January 14, 2020
Today’s News & Commentary — January 14, 2020
Yesterday, the House of Representatives began debating the impeachment of President Trump based...
Today’s News & Commentary—January 11, 2021
Today’s News & Commentary—January 11, 2021
Pressure continued mounting on corporations to cut off financial support to lawmakers who...
Weekend News & Commentary — January 10, 2021
Weekend News & Commentary — January 10, 2021
The fallout from Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol, which resulted in five deaths, among them...
Why the DOL Should Keep its Hands Off of Worker Centers
Why the DOL Should Keep its Hands Off of Worker Centers
Recently Bloomberg reported that the Office of Labor Management Standards of the U.S....
Sectoral Approach for Domestic Workers
Sectoral Approach for Domestic Workers
This week, Senator Kamala Harris and Representative Pramila Jayapal introduced the National...
Advocating for a Workers’ Advocate
Advocating for a Workers’ Advocate
With gridlock in Congress the norm for the foreseeable future, the federal regulatory process...
The DOL’s Proposed Joint Employer Rule: Frances Perkins Would not be Pleased
The DOL’s Proposed Joint Employer Rule: Frances Perkins Would not be Pleased
On April 1, 2019, the U.S. DOL proposed a new interpretation of joint employer liability under...
State and Local Enforcement: Stepping Up and Filling In on Workers’ Rights
State and Local Enforcement: Stepping Up and Filling In on Workers’ Rights
The picture for robust protection of workers’ rights at the federal level is not a pretty one...
Today’s News & Commentary — August 29, 2018
Today’s News & Commentary — August 29, 2018
The prison strike enters day nine, as the estimated 900,000 incarcerated laborers (out of a...
Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018
Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018
On Saturday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. District Court for the District of...
Weekend News & Commentary — June 9 – 10, 2018
Weekend News & Commentary — June 9 – 10, 2018
Starting tomorrow, no Costco employee will earn below $14 an hour. While some locations...