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April 25, 2023
News & Commentary

Lewit Gemeda

In today’s News and Commentary, a group of Amazon delivery drivers and dispatchers working for a Palmdale, California contractor become the first group of Amazon drivers to unionize, and striking Canadian federal government workers seem to be approaching a resolution with the government. Last week, 84 drivers and dispatchers at Battle Tested Strategies—an Amazon contractor—entered […]

July 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

New guidance from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission tells employers to take more factors into consideration when choosing to screen employees for Covid-19. Until this change took place, employees could legally screen workers on-site across the board, Bloomberg explains. Now, employers will have to prove that testing employees is a “business necessity,” based on factors […]

Cannabis Legislation: Labor Rights and Equity

Jun 20, 2022 Eric Jang

The legal cannabis industry is currently one of the fastest-growing employers in the U.S. Since 2017, the number of Americans working with cannabis has grown each year by at least 27%. In just the last year alone, the industry grew by 33% and now employs up to 428,000 American workers. Part of the reason for […]

The Strike Zone—March 28, 2022

Mar 28, 2022 Alex Blutman

In long-running litigation over alleged wage violations, a federal district court ruled on a summary judgment motion that a class of Arizona-based minor league baseball players are year-round, joint employees of Major League Baseball and its clubs. The case dates to 2014, when the players sued alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and […]

October 12, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Over 24,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California and Oregon have overwhelmingly authorized a strike. The vote, led by the United Nurses Association of California/Union of Health Care Professionals and the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, was approved by 96% of the membership. The vote followed Kaiser’s plan to institute a two-tiered […]

May 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Jason Vazquez

As restaurants across the country struggle to adequality staff their kitchens and facilities, many conservative policymakers have begun ascribing this purported “labor shortage” to the enhanced unemployment benefits made available during the pandemic. Top White House economic advisers sought to refute such contentions in a memo issued Tuesday, which posits that the labor shortages represent “a positive […]

May 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

The number of initial state unemployment claims decreased by 34,000 last week, resulting in a weekly adjusted total of 473,000 claims. Despite this sign that the labor market is beginning to heal, economists are nonetheless worried. For certain industries, job applications are down and hiring has stalled. Politico provides several explanations for this state of affairs, such […]

March 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

The anniversary of the first lockdowns in the United States approaches, but even as optimism concerning the possibility of returning to “normal” mounts, many companies plan to retain work-from-home models regardless of the status of the pandemic. In a Stanford and University of Chicago survey of over 17,000 workers, 27.3% said they would prefer to […]

January 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Jeanna Smialek of The New York Times recently analyzed the changing economic philosophy underlying Biden administration plans to return the job market back to low unemployment. Smialek looked at Biden’s appointments and statements from upcoming Biden administration officials and Fed officials to demonstrate a new willingness to engage in government spending and borrowing without past […]

October 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

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. Bloomberg Law has received more information on the whistleblower complaint regarding the […]

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