Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May will not resign but will seek to form a minority government after her party lost its parliamentary majority in yesterday’s election. The future of Brexit and recent calls to limit immigration are now less clear. The results were seen as a repudiation of May’s policies but also as a victory for Labour and its leader Jeremy Corbyn, who ran on a left-populist platform that included calls to re-nationalize industries and to encourage worker co-ops.
Trump is expected to nominate Cheryl Stanton, a former Bush administration lawyer, to head the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. Stanton is the current director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce.
Chicago’s unionized charter school teachers are in the process of voting on a deal to join the Chicago Teachers Union, which has vocally opposed charter schools. If the deal is approved by CTU members and teachers at the 10 unionized charter schools (final results might be unknown until the fall), CTU and charter school teachers would join forces but would continue to operate under separate contracts.
Workers at the popular Washington-area Founding Farmers restaurants sued the company Tuesday alleging violations to overtime and sick-leave laws. As the Washington Post notes, Founding Farmers is the most recent of several high-profile restaurant groups to face similar allegations.
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May 22
U.S. employers spend $1.7B on union avoidance each year and the ICJ declares the right to strike a protected activity.
May 21
UAW backs legal challenge to Trump “gold card” visa; DOL requests unemployment fraud technology funding; Samsung reaches eleventh-hour union agreement.
May 20
LIRR strike ends after three-day shutdown; key senators reject Trump's proposed 26% cut to Labor Department budget; EEOC moves to eliminate employer demographic reporting requirement.
May 19
Amazon urges 11th Circuit to overturn captive-audience meeting ban; DOL scraps Biden overtime rule; SCOTUS to decide on Title IX private right of action for school employees
May 18
California Department of Justice finds conditions at ICE facilities inhumane; Second Circuit rejects race bias claim from Black and Hispanic social workers; FAA cuts air traffic controller staffing target.
May 17
UC workers avoid striking with an 11th-hour agreement; Governor Spanberger vetoes public employee collective bargaining protections; Samsung workers prepare for an 18-day strike.