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April 7, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The March jobs report revealed that the U.S. added 196,000 jobs last month, exceeding forecasts and demonstrating recovery from February’s slowdown. The numbers in Friday’s monthly report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate strong, sustainable economic growth. Unemployment remains at 3.8%. The New York Times explains that wage gains – March 2019’s hourly wages […]

April 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

ICE conducted its largest workplace raid in over a decade this week, arresting over 280 employees of CVE Technology Group in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. The arrested individuals are predominantly women from countries including El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela. Families were left waiting for several hours for their loved ones to be […]

April 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

Six women have sued the law firm Jones Day for pregnancy and gender discrimination. The former associates claim that the firm’s “fraternity culture” benefits male attorneys to the detriment of women, who are routinely excluded from the best assignments and denied promotions and pay raises. The pregnancy discrimination claims are the latest in a series […]

December 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report: unemployment remains at 3.7% for the third month, and the U.S. added 155,000 nonfarm jobs. Reactions are mixed; while the report is “weaker than expected,” it is also a sign of an expansive and overall healthy economy, note commentators in the New York […]

August 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Incarcerated people across the United States will go on strike starting tomorrow (Tuesday, August 21st) to protest mass incarceration, poor prison conditions, and exploitative prison labor practices. While the 13th Amendment bars slavery and involuntary servitude, it creates an exception for involuntary work imposed “as a punishment for crime;” and many states force prisoners to […]

July 3, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

After long campaign by thousands of app-based drivers with the Independent Drivers Guild, New York City released a report today analyzing a proposal to establish a minimum pay rate for app-based for-hire vehicle drivers. The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, which would enact and implement the pay standard, contracted with Dr. James Parrott of the […]

June 12, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided yesterday that most victims of domestic violence may no longer apply for asylum in the United States. Immigration law allows the attorney general to singlehandedly reverse a decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals, and Sessions used that power to overturn four years of precedent. The new policy will lead […]

March 27, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

“Technical education struggles to gain funding traction,” Rafael Bernal writes at The Hill. Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs have received attention in light of concerns about the “skills gap” in the U.S. economy (which we’ve briefly covered here and here). The Strengthening Career Technical Education for the 21st Century Act would reauthorize, with slight changes, […]

March 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Last Friday, respondents filed a motion for reconsideration in the Hy-Brand case. As we’ve covered (here and here), the NLRB vacated its decision in Hy-Brand (thus restoring the Obama-era joint-employer standard) because a Board member had a conflict of interest and should have recused himself. The motion argues, among other things, that the Inspector General Report concluding […]

March 7, 2018
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

Public school teachers in West Virginia ended their strike yesterday when the state Senate agreed to grant teachers a five percent raise and voted to ratify the pay raise 34-0. Inspired by the actions in West Virginia, teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky have reportedly been thinking about striking as well. Read more about the strike’s relationship […]

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