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February 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Yesterday, the Senate passed H.R. 4445, a landmark, bipartisan “#MeToo” bill that bans forced arbitration agreements for workplace sexual harassment or assault claims, giving workers the choice to take their claims to court instead of being forced to have their cases adjudicated behind closed doors in arbitration proceedings. Specifically, the bill amends the Federal Arbitration […]

October 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

A record 2.9% of U.S. workers left their jobs in August, marking the highest month-to-month quits rate of the century. According to a report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), some 4.2 million workers resigned from work, including over 1.6 million in the retail and hospitality industries. While quits remain disproportionately concentrated […]

September 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft. The measure, filed with state authorities last month, claims to mandate an hourly pay standard […]

August 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

This morning, Mexico’s Labor Ministry announced that workers at one of General Motors’s largest pickup plants voted 3,214-2,623 to reject their union’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the company. The vote, carried out under the rules of the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), was widely seen as a critical test case for the agreement’s unprecedented […]

August 5, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Ongoing revelations surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s serial sexual misconduct while in office have lost the governor the support of organized labor. Since Tuesday, a host of labor groups—including the Hotel Trades Council, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), the Retail, Warehouse, and Department Store Union (RWDSU), […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

March 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

Business groups have initiated a legal challenge to to delay a Trump-era rule that would clear the way for businesses to classify more workers as independent contractors. In a complaint filed Friday in the Beaumont Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the Coalition for Workforce Innovation alleged the Biden […]

January 18, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

For all the hand-wringing those interested in workers’ rights have done in the past few months, there is some cause for optimism: the comparatively progressive labor agenda heralded by a flipped Congress and a Democratic administration. Commenters expect a reinvigoration of the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a bill substantially amending the NLRA, […]

August 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Uber and Lyft suffered a major loss in court yesterday when a California state judge ruled that the ride-sharing behemoths must classify their drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. California sued Uber and Lyft arguing the companies were in violation of AB5, a landmark law passed in 2019 that makes it more difficult for […]

September 12, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In response to the California legislature’s passage of Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a bill that largely codifies the California Supreme Court’s decision last year in Dynamex Operations West, Uber is claiming that it will continue to classify its workers as independent contractors. Under prong B of the ABC test established in Dynamex, a worker who […]

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