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April 6, 2023
News & Commentary

Maddie Chang

Oregon considers a bill to address wage theft in construction, the EEOC brings a discrimination claim against a restaurant on behalf of a transgender employee, and a new Department of Labor survey finds widespread labor violations in the Southern California garment industry.

July 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

New guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tells employers to take more factors into consideration when choosing to screen employees for Covid-19. Until this change took place, employees could legally screen workers on-site across the board, Bloomberg explains. Now, employers will have to prove that testing employees is a “business necessity,” based on factors […]

June 30, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary: McDonalds no-poach agreement survives in court, legislation protecting nursing parents at work is stalled, accounts of low-wage and precarious work in the solar power industry, a union of knights and squires, global concern for the right to strike and organize, and an international pilot program to help compensate workers injured […]

California’s Garment Worker Protection Act Serves as a Victory Against Rampant Wage Theft and Signals a Call for Accountability in All Supply Chains

Nov 17, 2021 Gwendolyn Gissendanner

On September 27th, California became the first state to require hourly pay—as opposed to piece-rate pay—for garment workers, thus ensuring garment workers actually earn the minimum wage. After signing the Garment Worker Protection Act (SB 62) into law, Governor Newsom called SB 62 a “nation leading” bill to combat typical, exploitative practices that overwhelmingly lower […]

October 15, 2021
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

As Maxwell covered yesterday, workers spanning multiple industries and regions across the U.S. are striking or poised to strike for better working conditions. Workers at Kellogg, John Deere, various entertainment productions, Kaiser Permanente, New York hospitals, Massachusetts hospitals, and more are either currently striking or have authorized a strike if demands aren’t soon met. As […]

March 10, 2021
News & Commentary

Courtney Brunson

The House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO Act) yesterday with five Republicans joining Democrats in favor of the legislation to make it a 225-206 vote. Though the bill is unlikely to advance in the Senate given a lack of Republican support for the legislation, this measure is seen as the most […]

August 28, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

Unprecedented collective action by NBA players has changed the narrative across the entire professional sports landscape, centering the focus on racial reform in the wake of this week’s shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed black man. After a boycott of Wednesday’s NBA playoff games followed by two contentious meetings with the Players’ Union, NBA players […]

August 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Approximately 1.1 million Americans filed for unemployment within the last week, a marked increase from the start of August. The new numbers come amidst a legislative stalemate between House Democratic lawmakers and the President over an extension of booster unemployment benefits, previously set at a flat rate of $600 per week. Many Republicans object that […]

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