September 24th 2021
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The New York City Council today passed sweeping measures to improve conditions for delivery workers, including those at "app-based food delivery services like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats." The legislation now "prevents the food delivery apps and courier...
Uber and Lyft have continued their national push to cement the status of their drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. In conjunction with Postmates and Instacart, the companies previously spent $205 million in California to successfully support...
Yesterday, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy announced that rideshare companies could move forward with their proposed state ballot measure to exempt their drivers from employment law protections. The proposal, modeled closely on California’s Proposition...
State legislatures are playing an outsized role in American politics, the New York Times reports. While Republicans are out of power in Washington by a slim margin, they control 30 state legislatures, 26 of which will redraw congressional districts (compared to...
The House of Representatives released a draft appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services for the 2021-22 fiscal year. The bill would allocate $14.7 billion to Labor, a more than $2 billion increase over 2021 and $400...
Despite increased demand for ridesharing services, many Lyft and Uber drivers are not back on the roads, CNBC reports. A number of factors explain why the companies’ driver capacities have fallen by approximately 40%. Some former drivers said that they remained...
A recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis found a significant and growing racial wealth gap between Black and white millennials. In 2016, the St. Louis Fed found that a typical millennial household had 40% less wealth than previous generations had...
Now that the Democratic Party has a majority in both chambers of Congress, elected officials and progressive groups alike have been pushing for policy issues that improve the wellbeing of workers, including a living wage and basic employment benefits. According to...
The pandemic is causing healthcare workers to leave the profession, the New York Times reports. According to the NYT report, many doctors and nurses are retiring early or seeking other work because of conditions created by the pandemic. Some are concerned for their...
The Senate is set to vote on two stimulus measures this Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN reports. They will first vote on the stand-alone Paycheck Protection Program designed to provide relief to small businesses. Then, on Wednesday, Senate Republicans will try to pass a...
Underscored by the Department of Labor’s (DOL) weekly unemployment claims report, the uncertainty stemming from the pandemic continues to put pressure on and upend the labor market. Last week, 898,000 people sought unemployment assistance for the first time, a...
Yesterday’s headlines were dominated by the ongoing confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. At Wednesday’s hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) grilled Barrett on, among other things, the Supreme Court’s controversial 2018 decision...