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May 12, 2023
News & Commentary

Greg Volynsky

Starbucks workers in Chelsea file petition for decertification vote; federal jury orders largest settlement ever under the Fair Labor Standards Act; employees at an architecture firm file petition to unionize.

February 24, 2023
News & Commentary

Julio Colby

Supreme Court rules high-earning professionals must be salaried to be overtime-exempt; federal judge rolls back nationwide injunction against Starbucks; OSHA fines another Amazon distribution center.

June 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has published its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (ETS) to its website this morning. The rule mandates that covered employers implement comprehensive COVID-19 safety plans, install barriers and improved ventilation, provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to employees, enforce social distancing, and grant employees paid time off for vaccinations and […]

May 22, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

The jobs report released today reflects a rise in unemployment claims, but at a declining pace for the seventh straight week following the record peak in late March. Weekly jobless claims totaled 2.4 million for the week ending on May 16, bringing the total since late March to 38.6 million. Though economists were hopeful that […]

June 6, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In the ongoing case of Chamber of Commerce v. City of Seattle dealing with the legality of Seattle’s for-hire vehicle driver collective bargaining ordinance, the Chamber and co-plaintiffs moved for summary judgment in February, arguing that the ordinance is preempted by federal antitrust law. The City of Seattle and co-defendants then sought discovery to gather […]

March 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

The Maryland General Assembly overrode Republican Governor Larry Hogan’s veto of an increase in the state’s hourly minimum wage from $10.10 to $15 by 2025 for businesses with 15 or more employees and by 2026 for smaller employers. As OnLabor previously reported, Hogan’s veto was expected and followed a House and Senate committee reconciliation process that set […]

August 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

North Carolina raised the minimum wage to $15/hour for around 10,000 state government and public university employees. Legislative budget-writers explained that this raise will help retain experienced state workers, who often leave their jobs for higher-paying private positions. Political analysts also believe that the Republican-controlled state legislature passed this measure to win the support of […]

September 1, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

Yesterday, a federal judge invalidated the Obama administration’s overtime rule, which would have doubled the overtime salary threshold to around $47,000. The rule would have made around 4 million additional workers overtime eligible. In an 18-page opinion, Judge Amos Mazzant (E.D. Tex.) concluded that, while the FLSA gives the Labor Department authority to use a […]

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