Saipan casino to pay $3M for construction worker wage claims

Court documents say a Saipan casino developer will pay $3 million to settle U.S. Department of Labor claims that construction workers weren’t paid minimum wages and overtime. A consent judgment …

Dems unveil anti-workplace harassment bill

A group of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a bill aimed at strengthening protections against harassment in the workplace, including sexual harassment. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Democratic Reps. Katherine Clark (Mass.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) …

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Joint Employer Status

On April 1, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a proposed rule to revise and clarify the responsibilities of employers and joint employers to employees in joint employer arrangements. …

Black women and Latinas paid so poorly, catching up is almost impossible

Equal Pay Day usually marks the apex of public conversation about women’s average earnings, the persistence of gender discrimination and its life-altering effects. But most of the spotlight fades away …

Labor Department to Limit Companies’ ‘Joint Employer’ Liability

The Labor Department today will roll out a proposal to shield franchisers and businesses that hire workers through staffing firms from liability for some minimum wage and overtime pay violations. …

The Rules of #MeToo

Two revelations are central to the meaning of the #MeToo movement. First, sexual harassment and assault are ubiquitous. And second, traditional legal procedures have failed to redress these problems. In …

Is Gig Work a Job? Uber and Others Are Maneuvering to Shape the Answer

It was a potentially sweeping proposal from a Texas regulator: Companies that use a “digital network” to dispatch workers the way Uber does could label them contractors rather than employees. …

Rights at Risk: Gig Companies’ Campaign to Upend Employment as We Know It

Ride-hailing giant Uber and aspiring “Uber of home services” Handy, along with other tech-companies-cumservice-providers, have been conspiring with powerful corporate allies and lobbyists on a far-reaching, multi-million-dollar influence campaign to …

Janus’s Progeny? A Supreme Court Threat to Majority Rule Looms

At a time when democracy is under attack around the world, the Supreme Court is currently contemplating taking two labor rights cases that pose a profound threat not just to …

Editorial: A Day of Rest May Get a Day in Court

The Supreme Court inched closer this week to undoing a decades-old mistake that has denied meaningful workplace protections for religious employees. On Monday the high court asked the solicitor general …

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