Maddy Joseph is a student at Harvard Law School.
The Supreme Court will consider whether agency-fee agreements in the public sector are constitutional. Read our round up of coverage on the cert. grant in Janus v. AFSCME here.
In other Supreme Court news, at Slate, Daniel Hemel explores Murphy Oil‘s potential impact on workers’ ability to pursue wage claims against their employers. Oral arguments in three consolidated cases, including Murphy Oil, are on Monday. Check here for more on the cases.
Customers who staffed a for-profit consignment shop in exchange for the opportunity to shop before others could were employees under the FLSA and were entitled to wages. Earlier this week, a D.D.C. judge upheld DOL’s determination that “consignor/volunteers” were employees, given their expectation of benefits in exchange for work, how integral their labor was to the business, and the degree of control the business had over volunteers, among other factors.
After a unionization vote at a Mississippi Nissan plant failed, the UAW filed a complaint with the NLRB alleging that Nissan “continues to maintain an employee surveillance, data collection and rating system that records employee union activity and rates workers according to their perceived support or opposition to the UAW.” Bloomberg obtained the complaint and has a summary.
Drawing on a recent report from the Century Foundation, a story in The New Republic argues that workers and unions should adopt a constitutional rights-based strategy to protect activities like strikes and union organizing.
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July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.
July 4
The DOL scraps a Biden-era proposed rule to end subminimum wages for disabled workers; millions will lose access to Medicaid and SNAP due to new proof of work requirements; and states step up in the noncompete policy space.
July 3
California compromises with unions on housing; 11th Circuit rules against transgender teacher; Harvard removes hundreds from grad student union.
July 2
Block, Nanda, and Nayak argue that the NLRA is under attack, harming democracy; the EEOC files a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former EEOC Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels; and SEIU Local 1000 strikes an agreement with the State of California to delay the state's return-to-office executive order for state workers.
July 1
In today’s news and commentary, the Department of Labor proposes to roll back minimum wage and overtime protections for home care workers, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by public defenders over a union’s Gaza statements, and Philadelphia’s largest municipal union is on strike for first time in nearly 40 years. On Monday, the U.S. […]
June 30
Antidiscrimination scholars question McDonnell Douglas, George Washington University Hospital bargained in bad faith, and NY regulators defend LPA dispensary law.