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Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018

Aug 26, 2018 Jenny Braun

On Saturday, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected a series of President Trump’s executive orders. Jackson ruled that boosting federal agencies’ firing rights would deny collective bargaining rights for federal workers. Thus, the three executive orders Trump signed in May violated the NLRA, for they side-stepped […]

Today’s News & Commentary — June 29, 2018

Jun 29, 2018 Jenny Braun

In Chicago, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled in favor of sandwich franchise Jimmy John’s, who argued that the company cannot be liable for the FLSA violations of its individual restaurants. Jimmy John’s may control mayonnaise dispensing techniques and proper fridge organization for each restaurant, but this type of control […]

May 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The Editorial Board of the New York Daily News yesterday drew attention to what has been a repeated “pilgrimage” in a stymied search for equal rights and fair treatment: the yearly trip of “some of New York State’s 100,000 field hands to the Capitol” to ask for rights to overtime pay, an unpaid weekly day […]

May 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Cornell University violated the National Labor Relations Act in March of 2017, but Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU) will not receive a unionization revote, an independent arbitrator ruled last week. In an email sent twenty-four hours prior to the election to unionize 2500 graduate research and teaching assistants, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the […]

May 6, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan is retiring in June, but continues to escalate worksite enforcement efforts. Homan appears to be delivering on his promise last fall to oversee a four or fivefold rise in rates of workplace immigration enforcement, Bloomberg Law reports. In January ICE introduced a steeper penalty scheme for employers’ […]

April 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler announced a groundbreaking bill in the California legislature to end the use of forced arbitration to cover up workplace sexual harassment. AB-3080 would prohibit employers from requiring workers or prospective employees to sign a mandatory arbitration agreement waiving their right to bring a lawsuit for sexual harassment, discrimination, or violations of […]

April 18, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

Arizona teachers began voting on whether to strike on Tuesday afternoon. While Republican Governor Doug Ducey has agreed to a 20% pay raise for teachers by 2020, many teachers have criticized the plan for not including pay raises for support staff and for failing to address cuts to education funding over the past several years. […]

Pay Equity in Massachusetts

Apr 10, 2018 Maura Healey

Today we recognize Equal Pay Day, symbolizing how far into the current year the average woman has to work to earn as much as her male colleagues in the prior year. Thanks to persistent gender wage gaps and gender discrimination, women in Massachusetts still only make about 84 cents for every dollar made by men.

April 8, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The Washington Post reports that Target has agreed to a $3.74 million settlement with black and Latino job applicants who claimed that the company’s criminal background check policy was discriminatory. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund had filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the workers, claiming that the background check policy relied on criminal […]

December 27, 2017
News & Commentary

Edward Nasser

The Atlantic reports that the #metoo movement has yet to deliver justice for low-wage workers who are victims of sexual harassment. The piece explains that sexual harassment is rampant in low-wage industries–50% of workers in the restaurant industry reported facing “scary” or “unwanted” sexual advances in a 2014 report–the difficulty in proving claims and risk […]

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Weekend News & Commentary — August 25–26, 2018

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Pay Equity in Massachusetts

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