May 19th 2022
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The rideshare industry is plagued with concerns over worker exploitation. Though rideshare companies promise drivers autonomy and flexibility, they more often deliver meager wages, a lack of employment benefits, and opaque decision-making processes that can result...
On March 30, 2022, David Weil’s nomination to head the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division was defeated in an unexpected 47–53 vote, marking the first time one of President Biden’s nominees was defeated in a floor vote. In an unexpected twist, three...
A brief filed this week by NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo called for the reinstatement of the Joy Silk doctrine, Bloomberg Law reports. Currently, a bargaining order may only issue in cases where an “employer’s misdeeds are so widespread they make a fair...
The New York Times reported that the White House will request that Congress pass a new minimum wealth tax on the ultra-rich as part of the Biden Administration’s budget proposal for the next fiscal year. Called the “Billionaire Minimum Income Tax,” the tax would...
Forced arbitration denies workers their day in court. Over the past few decades, the Supreme Court has made it increasingly difficult for workers to avoid arbitration. This month, the Court will hear three more cases involving arbitration-related disputes. The...
Reading the briefs in Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon, a case the Supreme Court will hear at the end of the month, I was reminded of two aphorisms. The first is “what a tangled web we weave when first we start to deceive,” and the second is Karl Marx’s...
In the midst of the historic re-run union election at the Amazon packaging facility in Bessemer, Alabama—ballots were mailed out a few weeks ago and the election remains open until the end of this month—a handful of workers at the plant who voted against the...
The CDC issued a new set of recommendations for Covid-19 mask-wearing that suggest around 70% of Americans may stop wearing masks, according to the New York Times. The CDC’s recommendations no longer rely only on the number of cases in a community to determine the...
Yesterday, NLRB prosecutors accused Amazon of violating federal labor law by threatening, interrogating and surveilling workers at a New York warehouse where a unionization effort was underway. According to the NLRB complaint, an Amazon consulting promised to solve...
NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo is asking the Board to revisit several Trump-era precedents that narrowed what’s considered concerted activity for mutual aid and protection, Bloomberg Law reports. The General Counsel’s brief challenges an ALJ’s August...
Activists and workers in 20 countries will protest against Amazon on Black Friday, Insider reports. The effort is part of a larger campaign, Make Amazon Pay, that is being organized by environmental, consumer, and workers’ groups. The campaign organizers say that...
In a victory for the Biden Administration, the House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill late Friday, giving final approval to a central piece of President Biden’s domestic agenda that aims to rebuild the country’s public works system, expand access to...