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9th Circuit Revives Constitutional Challenge to Employee Classification Law

Mar 20, 2023 Michelle Berger

Federal court breathes new life into Uber’s challenge to California‘s worker-classification law.

March 19, 2023
News & Commentary

Will Ebeler

Ninth Circuit reinstates Uber's Equal Protection challenge to California's AB5; reduction in SNAP benefits could lead to "hunger cliff" for low-wage workers; Amazon workers start unionizing campaign at Kentucky facility; ex-Google employees ask company to honor parental leave.

March 15, 2023
News & Commentary

Jacqueline Rayfield

California court finds Proposition 22 legal; Michigan Senate votes to repeal right to work laws; American Airlines pilots authorize strike vote.

February 26, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Uber and Lyft drivers in New York City go on strike, Hyundai divests from an Alabama factory due to child labor violations

December 20, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

New York City Uber drivers went on a 24-hour strike yesterday; Tesla allegedly fired workers for criticizing the company and CEO Musk

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

Sep 27, 2022 Sharon Block

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agencies charged with setting employment standards for the fair treatment of the nation’s workforce. Instead, the Federal Trade Commission made […]

August 23, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

In a move to express solidarity with Uber Drivers, Uniting Church told its workers yesterday to stop using Uber, citing the company’s “unethical foundations.” The Church is the largest non-government provider of services to the community in all of Australia. The Church pointed to the recent “Uber Files” report and Uber’s practices of mistreating its […]

August 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s news and commentary, California farmworkers march for fair union elections, Uber pays misclassified workers, a group of women suing for sexual harassment must share their names, courts take on caste discrimination, worker deaths at Amazon warehouses, and analysis of the effect of remote work on women. Today California farmworkers will march 19 miles […]

June 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

The 29th Constitutional Convention of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest federation of labor unions in the country, kicked off on Sunday in Philadelphia and wraps up later today. The quadrennial convention presents a democratic forum in which delegates representing the AFL-CIO’s dozens of affiliated unions throughout the […]

June 7, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s news and commentary, the Supreme Court unanimously sides with a Southwest Airlines worker in an FAA dispute; Genwa workers in Los Angeles win their first contract; and Planned Parenthood opposes unionization in Massachusetts. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Southwest Airlines employee Latrice Saxon on Monday in a case involving the […]

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