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December 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

The Department of Labor has published a proposed change to the rules around tip pooling. In 2011, the Obama Administration clarified the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations to reflect the Wage and Hour Division’s long-standing policy – based on 1974 FLSA amendments – that employers could never require staff to share tips, regardless of whether the employer paid a tipped or full minimum wage. The Trump Administration now proposes to […]

November 14, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Writing for the Atlantic, Sarah Lacy describes that Women in Tech Are Rising Higher in China Than in the U.S. Lacy notes the disparity between the percent of U.S. tech companies that, when asked how many women have C-level jobs at their company, answered “one or more” (53%), and the percentage of Chinese tech companies that answered […]

November 13, 2017
News & Commentary

Jyoti Jasrasaria

USA Today reports that the U.S. federal agencies relied on trucking companies that violated labor laws. XPO Logistics and California Cartage, two companies that were found guilty of labor infractions, and Konoike-Pacific, which was accused of the same kinds of violations by its drivers, are still working as federal contractors or subcontractors. Lawmakers, including Senators […]

November 10, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

Postmates, the delivery start up, faces a new worker-classification lawsuit. Vanity Fair has a quick report. In related news, in the UK, Uber lost its appeal of a recent ruling that its drivers were not self-employed. The Nation recaps a troubling new report from Centro de los Derechos del Migrante and Penn Law’s Transnational Legal Clinic about women […]

Backgrounder: Employment Status of Gig Workers in Brazil

Nov 3, 2017 Renan Bernardi Kalil

In Brazil, the largest gig-economy company is the transportation app Uber, with more than 50,000 drivers in 100 cities. As in other countries, Uber workers raise labor issues, especially regarding their status as independent contractors. According to Brazilian law, employment relationships have five characteristics: (1) subordination (the employee integrates the company organizational structure, subject to […]

October 27, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

Uber faces a new employment discrimination lawsuit brought by three Latina software engineers who allege that the company discriminates against women and people of color in promotions and pay. Uber is the latest in a string of tech companies–from Google to Twitter–facing lawsuits alleging gender discrimination. Here is a recent accounting of those suits. On Wednesday, […]

October 13, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Joseph

In New York City, more people are taking Uber than traditional yellow cabs, the New York Times reports. Uber’s growth has been fueled by new riders in the outer boroughs; a similar trend–new customers outside the city center–is also taking hold in other cities. Meanwhile, the UK, whose capital city recently declined to renew Uber’s license, is considering […]

October 3, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

POLITICO reports that the Trump administration is weighing an executive order on low-income assistance plans. The order would instruct federal agencies to review such plans as part of a larger effort to “make sweeping changes to the country’s welfare system.” It is reported that the draft order directs agencies to develop new rules, notably, stricter […]

London Bans Uber

Sep 22, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

In a major gig economy development, London’s transit authority announced today that it will revoke Uber’s operating license. Among the reasons cited for the revocation are problems in the way Uber conducts background checks of its drivers. Employment law may be lurking right below the surface here: Uber often resists better background-check procedures as part of […]

August 28, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

The New York Times opinion page profiles unemployment “in black and white,” examining the factors driving the phenomenon in which the overall unemployment rate for black Americans (7.4%) is almost twice the overall unemployment rate for white Americans (3.8%). The article identifies disparities produced by monetary policy as one culprit: “The Fed has historically favored inflation fighting […]

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