May 6th 2021
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Meat-processing plants are seeking support from President Trump’s Department of Labor (DoL) to avoid employee lawsuits related to COVID-19, the Huffington Post reports. At a preliminary hearing in Kansas City, Missouri, a Smithfield attorney expressed confidence...
Republican leaders in Iowa, Oklahoma, and other states reopening soon are telling UI recipients to return to work or risk losing benefits, the Washington Post reports. The leaders and reopening businesses fear workers will prefer to take advantage of historically...
According to a study by Professor Doyne Farmer at the University of Oxford, the United States employment rate is likely to drop 24% in the near future, accompanied by a 17% drop in wages and 22% drop in economic activity due to covid-19. The impact of the pandemic...
Workers providing essential services during the pandemic have complained to OSHA about the dangerous conditions they face, as Alexandra wrote Friday. But OSHA is leaving most of those workers out of workplace safety protections, ProPublica reports. In particular,...
New York City has announced its plan to cancel its 2020 Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in response to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. The SYEP has been an institution since 1963 and is the nation’s largest summer youth employment program. It allows...
On Sunday, the Department of Labor issued new guidance clarifying gig workers’ eligibility for unemployment benefits under the CARES Act—the federal government’s coronavirus relief package. The guidance answers some key questions about the administrability of these...
6.6 million people signed up for state unemployment benefits last week, according to Department of Labor data released this morning. As EPI notes, today’s earth-shattering number—over double last week’s record-breaking 3.3. million jobless claims—is likely...
Labor unions representing state government workers are cooperating with their employers’ COVID-19 emergency orders but wary of permanent changes to collective bargaining arrangements, according to The Intercept. In Minnesota, Democratic Governor Tim Walz issued an...
France’s high court has ruled that Uber drivers are properly classified as employees. The court’s opinion described drivers’ relationship to the ride-share platform as one of “subordination,” because drivers do not build their own clientele or set prices. The...
Voters took to the polls in fourteen states for Super Tuesday yesterday. As The New York Times reports, former Vice President Joe Biden won big: winning in states across the South and in several states where he did not seriously campaign. Senator Bernie Sanders won...
Child care workers in California have called for a union election. The election is part of a sixteen-year organizing effort by Child Care Providers United, a joint initiative from the SEIU and AFSCME. Workers who provide child care services to California families...
California’s controversial AB5 law came into effect on January 1, to fierce opposition from industry. The law codifies the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex test for classifying workers as employees, rather than independent contractors. Last week, Uber and...