September 21st 2021
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This weekend, an estimated 8.9 million workers and their families will lose federal unemployment benefits entirely, and more than 2 million more will have their weekly checks reduced by $300 per week, as two key federal unemployment programs expire. Pandemic...
“Dignity of work” rhetoric has long been used to justify conditioning welfare assistance and tax relief on engagement in wage labor. The argument goes: “[w]ork is good, more of it is better and policy should be a conveyor belt from the moral torpor of idleness to...
In a press release yesterday, district attorneys in both Los Angeles County and San Francisco announced a joint worker protection action against Handy Technologies, Inc., alleging that the housekeeping and home-services company had misclassified tens of thousands...