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November 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

The Washington Supreme Court held Thursday that the state’s dairy workers are entitled to overtime pay if they work over 40 hours a week — a landmark labor ruling that will likely extend to the rest of the state’s agriculture industry. For the past 60 years, state law has exempted farmworkers from the classes of […]

July 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

The Partnership for Working Families and the National Employment Law Project released a report yesterday outlining the harms posed by Proposition 22, the California ballot initiative backed by $110 million from Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Instacart, and Doordash. If passed, the ballot initiative would exempt app-based transportation and delivery companies from AB 5, a California law […]

May 22, 2020
News & Commentary

Rund Khayyat

The jobs report released today reflects a rise in unemployment claims, but at a declining pace for the seventh straight week following the record peak in late March. Weekly jobless claims totaled 2.4 million for the week ending on May 16, bringing the total since late March to 38.6 million. Though economists were hopeful that […]

November 26, 2019
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

McDonald’s has agreed to pay $26 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the fast-food giant of wage theft. Employees in California originally filed suit in 2013, alleging, among other things, that the company had failed to pay overtime premiums, refused to provide employees with rest and meal periods, and failed to reimburse employees […]

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