July 5th 2022
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The Federal Trade Commission has cemented a Democratic majority among the commissioners, as the Senate confirmed Professor Alvaro Bedoya on Wednesday. The 51-50 vote, with a tiebreaker from Vice President Kamala Harris, signals a shift that will empower Chair Lina...
Life for American truck drivers has devolved into a “dystopian nightmare,” writes Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein in an op-ed for the New York Times. Before the 1970s, trucking was a “good job, with union representation, decent pay and benefits, and normal hours,” but,...
As the unemployment rate remains high, workers across the nation are beginning to receive retroactive relief from the Lost Wages Assistance Program. Under the framework, states are using grants apportioned from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA)...
Graduate student workers at the University of Chicago held a three day strike last week to pressure the university to recognize and bargain with their union, Graduate Students United. As previously reported in OnLabor, UChicago student workers voted to unionize...
Workers at Marriott hotels across the country are voting to go on strike. Under the banner of “one job should be enough,” these workers -- members of UNITE HERE -- are calling for living wages that will enable them to support themselves and their families. ...
A local woman has had a hard time finding work, but is desperate for income, and hears from a friend about a business opportunity which allows her to work from home. Excited about the prospect, she spends $99 in order to get a starter kit, which allows her to sell...
The Department of Labor announced today that it has withdrawn two memos (so-called Administrator's Interpretations, or AIs) issued by David Weil's Wage and Hour Division in 2015 and 2106. The first AI concerned the definition of employment under the Fair Labor...
Tyeshawn Clark,[1] is a 17-year-old high school student who lives with his mom and 2-year-old brother in Dorchester, MA. Every day after school Tyeshawn works at the Transformative Culture Project, a job placement he found through the Boston Private Industry...
Congress may be open to revisiting the classification of gig economy workers as employees or independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Per Bloomberg BNA, "the head of the House workforce committee May 3 told an audience of innovators that she...
One year ago, this blog featured a post that outlined various reasons why the restaurant industry’s use of tips in lieu of guaranteed wages had come to provoke, in the author’s words, “a firestorm of criticism”: that reliance on tips as a significant component of...