May 16th 2021
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Multiple developments for workplace safety during the pandemic are taking place on the federal and state level. With some states beginning to loosen restrictions such as masking, OSHA is poised to issue new emergency regulations as early as this week. While what...
The Biden Administration recently moved to remove work requirements from the Medicaid Program, ensuring that low-income Americans have health insurance whether or not they work. This welcome change is a recognition of the fact that work requirements unfairly punish...
For all the hand-wringing those interested in workers' rights have done in the past few months, there is some cause for optimism: the comparatively progressive labor agenda heralded by a flipped Congress and a Democratic administration. Commenters expect a...
Pressure continued mounting on corporations to cut off financial support to lawmakers who participated in last week’s challenges to President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory. The Washington Post reports that three major corporate donors—Marriott, the...
The fallout from Wednesday’s violence at the Capitol, which resulted in five deaths, among them Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer, continued this weekend. U.S. unions and labor leaders have forcefully condemned the events, and many have likened it to an...
The president-elect is due to be inaugurated in just over two weeks. But for all that was putatively decided by Joe Biden's election, the fate of this country and its people remain suspended in haunting precarity. Months of Congressional 'deliberation' now climaxes...
The Trump administration has finalized its rule granting broader exemptions to religious institutions under President Obama's executive order forbidding federal contractors from engaging in anti-LGBTQ discrimination. The new rule will go into effect on January 8....
On Thanksgiving, the Department of Labor submitted their “long-anticipated” tipped wage rule to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, threatening millions of tipped service workers with substantial wage loss. Currently, employers can claim a...
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...
Justice Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court. You can read OnLabor's discussion of her history on workers' issues on the Seventh Circuit here. You can read OnLabor's discussion of her textualism as it relates to her Kleber decision here....
Last week’s confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett contained all the elements you probably put on your 2020 SCOTUS hearing bingo card, if you were in to that sort of thing. The Republican senators talked a lot about Judge Barrett’s seven children. The...
A California Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday from Uber, Lyft, and the State of California about whether the state can recognize drivers as employees with rights to certain benefits under the state’s law AB 5. The companies were ordered to comply...