October 25th 2021
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Labor conflicts at Amazon continued this week, this time with new lawsuits against the e-commerce giant alleging racial and gender discrimination. Five women, current and former employees, sued Amazon alleging that Amazon managers used racial epithets against...
Restaurants and bars would have more latitude to pay workers the tipped minimum wage of only $2.13 per hour under a new Department of Labor regulation, Bloomberg Law reports. Under the proposed final rule, employers could pay the lower tipped minimum wage...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration released guidance aimed at protecting nursing home workers from Covid-19 exposure. Among other things, the guidance recommends the increased use of N95 respirators by nursing home workers. As Bloomberg reports,...
The US Labor Department is preparing to release a new federal framework for worker classification. As Bloomberg reports, DOL received approval from the White House regulatory office to publish the proposed rule in the Federal Registrar for public comment. The rule...
A quarter of temporary layoffs in the US may be permanent, says Goldman Sachs. According to an economist at the company, recent hiring patterns suggest that nearly a fourth of the 9.2 million temporarily laid off workers may be unable to return to their current...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious...
Clean Slate for Worker Power released a report today outlining recommendations for empowering worker voices and building a more equitable economy in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. The report focuses on various threats COVID poses to working people: not just...
As many readers experienced, OnLabor's website was down for several hours yesterday, a problem caused by a flood of new access requests that overwhelmed the page. Much as we would like to think that the sudden spike in OnLabor traffic was legitimate, the more...
In 2010, Chastity Jones applied for a customer service job at Catastrophe Management Solutions. Jones, who is African American, was selected for an interview, and she arrived at the office dressed in a business suit and wearing her hair in short dreadlocks. Jones...
On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced a proposal to extend health insurance benefits to the families of approximately 5,000 city employees who assisted police and firefighters with rescue and recovery efforts on and after September 11, 2001....
West Virginia teachers are set to go on another statewide strike on Tuesday, almost exactly a year after their first walkout ignited a labor movement among educators across the country. The West Virginia branch of the American Federation of Teachers called the...