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October 16, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

In fast food news, the Washington Post has a story on retail jobs’ perception problem (including fast food jobs) and what the National Retail Federation is doing to counteract this issue. According to the Post, the NRF will announce Retail Jobs Week, during which the organization will release research that it says will demonstrate the […]

October 15, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

The Department of Labor is offering nearly $1.4 million in funding to support enforcement of anti-discrimination laws in Mexico. According to the agency, “the goal is to increase compliance with the expanded protections against labor discrimination under Mexican labor law, with a specific focus on combating gender discrimination, forced pregnancy testing, sexual harassment and discrimination […]

October 14, 2014
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

Court workers in San Francisco went on strike and joined picket lines in front of three superior courthouses this morning, the SF Weekly reports. The court workers, members of SEIU 1021, allege bad faith negotiation tactics on the part of the court. The group has filed charges with the California Public Employment Relations Board, alleging […]

October 13, 2014
News & Commentary

Greg Baltz

The New York Times features a story about the Bay Parkway Community Job Center, founded in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy to support day laborers. It describes the plight of individual day laborers, like Manuel Castro, who went to Far Rockaway to find work in the wake of the storm. He worked for $120 a […]

October 12, 2014
News & Commentary

Greg Baltz

On Friday, the Nobel committee awarded Indian child labor activist Kailash Satyarthi the Nobel Peace Prize along with Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban after advocating for girl’s education. According to the BBC, the 60 year old Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA), or the Save the Childhood Movement, which […]

October 10, 2014
News & Commentary

Benjamin Sachs

There’s an interesting bit of behind-the-scenes news on the fast food campaign today. All the major chains (including McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s) are members of a retail trade group called the National Retail Federation (NRF). The NRF – like the National Restaurant Association – has long been an opponent of the kind of minimum-wage […]

October 10, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

A clothing factory in the town of Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic, is trying to prove that workers can be paid a living wage without having to work in sweatshop conditions. The workers make clothes for the collegiate-brand Alta Gracia, which is owned by the South Carolina-based Knights Apparel. The company pays its workers more than […]

October 9, 2014
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday over whether Amazon must pay its warehouse workers for the time they spend waiting to go through security screening at the end of their shifts, the New York Times reports. A 1947 law, the Portal-to-Portal Act, states that employers do not have to pay workers for “preliminary” or “postliminary” […]

October 8, 2014
News & Commentary

Daniel Crossen

Facing pressure from numerous states, the Obama administration yesterday announced that it would delay implementation of a plan to “extend minimum-wage and overtime protections to the nation’s nearly two million home-care workers,” according to the New York Times. The plan had originally been slated to take place on January 1, 2015; instead, the Department of […]

October 7, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

The latest Federal Reserve labor market conditions index has indicated that labor market conditions picked up last month – a metric that may push the Fed to raise interest rates sooner than previously anticipated. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the index – developed by Federal Reserve economists and first unveiled last May – rose 2.5 points […]

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