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Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

Sep 27, 2022 Sharon Block

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agencies charged with setting employment standards for the fair treatment of the nation’s workforce. Instead, the Federal Trade Commission made […]

May 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

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 Khan to advance her policy agenda after months of 2-2 deadlock between commissioners. Although Bedoya […]

Evidence of a New Antitrust Strategy Emerging: The FTC Sues to Halt a Book Publishing Merger

Jan 7, 2022 Mike Klain

This July, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order that contained a multi-pronged approach to promoting corporate competition. Notably, the order included several elements targeting the impacts of consolidation on workers, such as a directive to the FTC that antitrust enforcement focus in particular on labor markets, a directive for the FTC to take steps […]

December 7, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

A group of quality assurance testers and developers at Activision Blizzard studio Raven Software, responsible for Call of Duty: Warzone, have staged a walkout over terminated testers. This is the third recent worker action at Activision Blizzard. The demonstrating employees have demanded that all quality assurance testers, including those laid off, receive full-time position offers. […]

August 15, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

In the midst of The New York Times’ efforts to beat back a union drive among hundreds of its technology and product staffers, management-side lawyers representing the company accidentally leaked a private strategy memo to the union seeking to represent its employees. Indeed, last week a senior partner at Proskauer Rose sent an email to […]

July 8, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the White House announced that President Biden plans to issue an executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to restrict businesses’ use of employee non-compete agreements. So-called “non-competes”, which ban or restrict workers from seeking similar jobs at rival firms, are employed by roughly half of all private-sector businesses in the United States […]

Litigation Can Help Curb Algorithmic Discrimination in Hiring, Here’s How

Apr 7, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

As described in my last post, employers who use algorithmic decision systems (ADSs) in hiring reify past prejudices and systemic discrimination while coating the process in a veneer of objectivity. More troubling, mathematician and social activist Cathy O’Neil predicts these systems will disparately impact already marginalized communities, writing, “the privileged” will be “processed more by […]

The FTC went after Amazon for withholding gig drivers’ tips. Can consumer harm approaches be stretched even further to protect gig workers?

Mar 18, 2021 Zachary Sorenson

For years, Amazon promised its Fresh and Prime Now gig delivery drivers they would receive all customer tips. Instead, Amazon diverted these tips to cover base wages, according to a complaint against Amazon by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month. The FTC’s settlement with Amazon is a win for the drivers who will now […]

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