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June 15, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

According to a study by Bloomberg, as many as 30% of current job losses could be permanent. The study suggests that many of these jobs will succumb to what is known as “reallocation shock” in which the current economic disruption essentially leads to a different makeup of the economy. Retail stores, for instance, may never […]

November 6, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Tuesday, Harvard’s graduate student union announced that it will strike if the University fails to agree to what the union deems a fair contract agreement by December 3, the final day of classes for the fall semester. In an email to its members, the union explained that “The Bargaining Committee will continue to negotiate […]

September 25, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Tuesday, the Department of Labor announced new rules that will require employers to pay overtime to workers making less than $35,500 per year. The rules, proposed in March, will take effect on January 1, 2020. Employers today are only required to pay overtime to workers making less than $23,600, a standard set in 2004 […]

March 23, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

A policy rider in the spending bill passed last night bars employers from skimming workers’ tips. As we noted earlier this week, Democrats sought the rider after controversy engulfed the Department of Labor’s effort to repeal an Obama Era tip regulation. The Trump rescission would have allowed employers to keep tips as long as workers were […]

February 23, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

In advance of Monday’s oral argument in Janus, Bloomberg and the New York Times consider what might become of public sector unions if Abood is overruled. In These Times has a long feature on the advocacy groups who are funding not only Janus but also other efforts to undermine public sector unions. Key groups include the National Right to Work Foundation, whose legal fund represents […]

February 9, 2018
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

In the first gig economy worker classification case to go to trial, a federal magistrate judge ruled yesterday that a GrubHub worker was an independent contractor under California law. The decision could have ramifications in suits against other gig companies like Uber and Lyft. See coverage of the ruling here, here, and here. Ben Sachs […]

February 1, 2018
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

This Bloomberg Law article explains that the Department of Labor, which recently introduced a tip pooling proposal, deleted an internal analysis showing that the new proposal could cost workers billions of dollars. Under the new plan, workers who earn tips could be forced to share them with management and “back-of-the-house” workers who do not earn […]

January 18, 2018
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

This Splinternews article highlights Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL), a worker center in Minneapolis that trains workers to become organizers and leaders in their own community. The article highlights Alexis Collins, who was a 17-year-old Burger King employee when she joined the fight for $15. After the initial success of securing paid sick […]

January 4, 2018
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

Administrative Law Judge Anna Hamburg-Gal found that the Chicago Police Department violated stated labor laws by failing to negotiate an expansion of its body camera program with the city’s police union. The Judge found that state labor law requires dialogue with the union on “safety and discipline matters.” If this ruling is adopted by the […]

December 7, 2017
News & Commentary

Raj Salhotra

The Trump Administration has sided against public-sector unions by filing a brief in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees in support of a constitutional challenge to fair-share fees. While 28 states already have right-to-work laws, this case could outlaw fair-share fees and thereby impose right-to-work laws on public-sector unions in all […]

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