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July 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

The California Supreme Court will rule on whether its landmark Dynamex decision applies retroactively. In Dynamex v. Operations West, the court previously held that the appropriate test for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor is the “ABC test,” which requires employers to show that workers are free from their control, performing work outside […]

July 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released an opinion letter concluding that the time long-haul truckers spend sleeping in the berths of their vehicles is presumptively off-duty and not compensable. The opinion reverses earlier WHD guidance which had limited the amount of driver sleeping time that employers could exclude when determining […]

July 22, 2019
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Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The Trump Administration’s Office of Personnel Management has proposed a new rule that would enable federal workers to drop their union membership at any time after their first year. As Heather Gies explains for In These Times, “A rolling opt-out rule would mark a break from current practice, in which workers can revoke their membership […]

July 21, 2019
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Deanna Krokos

Last week, Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann authored an op-ed for CNN arguing for a hybrid-method to “empower gig workers” without undermining the purported “flexibility” that many gig companies tout as justification for gig workers’ exemption from traditional labor protections. The op-ed comes in the middle of an ongoing debate in the California legislature over AB5, […]

July 19, 2019
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Annie Hollister

President Trump plans to nominate Eugene Scalia to succeed Alexander Acosta as Secretary of Labor. Scalia—son of Nino—served as Solicitor of Labor under President George W. Bush, and is currently Co-Chair of the Administrative Law and Regulatory Group at Gibson Dunn. Scalia has spent his career representing management and business interests in labor, employment, and […]

July 18, 2019
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Jared Odessky

House Democrats are expected to pass the Raise the Wage Act today after overcoming opposition from within party ranks. The bill would gradually raise the federal minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour by 2024. Once the minimum reached $15, it would be indexed to inflation. The bill […]

July 17, 2019
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Rachel Sandalow-Ash

The UAW began negotiations for new collective bargaining agreements with Ford, Chrysler, and GM early this week. After granting significant concessions during the recession, workers now seek a higher share of the companies’ record profits. The UAW hopes to move workers currently classified as ‘temporary’ into regular positions with union wages and benefits; to guarantee […]

July 16, 2019
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Amazon warehouse workers in Minnesota, Germany, and beyond went on strike yesterday through today⁠—coinciding with Amazon’s fifth annual Prime Day⁠—to protest low wages and high pressure working conditions, as well as the company’s contracts with ICE. Striking workers are asking customers not to cross the virtual picket line, as the shopping event has prompted “rising […]

July 15, 2019
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Lolita DePalma

On Sunday, The Wall Street Journal explored the disconnect between the current record-low unemployment rate and wage stagnation. Theoretically, a low unemployment rate should lead to wage inflation because employers need to boost pay to attract new employees. However, wages have failed to rise as the unemployment rate has decreased. This has led economists to […]

July 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Friday, July 12, Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta announced his resignation as Democrats and Republicans alike questioned his handling of a sex crimes case involving financier Jeffrey Epstein when Acosta was a federal prosecutor in Florida. Even before last week, when federal prosecutors in New York charged Epstein with new sex trafficking crimes, Acosta’s […]

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OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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