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September 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft. The measure, filed with state authorities last month, claims to mandate an hourly pay standard […]

May 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), announced that members had voted to advance three nominees for labor-policy posts in the Biden Administration. The Committee voted 14-8 in favor of the nomination of Jocelyn Samuels for Democratic Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and by the same margin […]

February 12, 2020
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

The Boston Globe reports on the growth of wage-advance companies that allow workers to access money they have already earned but not yet received, often through an app. Workers can connect the app to their bank accounts or their employers’ payroll systems. The wage-advance company then fronts the workers a portion of their wages, which […]

October 1, 2017
News & Commentary

Melissa Greenberg

In the run up to oral argument in the consolidated cases of Murphy Oil USA, Epic Systems, and Ernst and Young, Bloomberg reported that workers’ rights advocates are not waiting to see how the Supreme Court will rule in these cases, but instead, beginning a campaign to pass legislation modeled on the California Private Attorney’s General Act (PAGA). PAGA […]

Improving Work Law Enforcement in States: California’s Private Attorneys General Act

Jul 19, 2017 Charlotte Garden

Charlotte Garden is an associate professor at Seattle University School of Law. To the extent there was ever doubt on this point, it is now clear that the Trump Administration will not prioritize robust enforcement of employment law mandates. One key example: the Department of Justice’s decision not to support the NLRB’s individual arbitration rule before the Supreme […]

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Improving Work Law Enforcement in States: California’s Private Attorneys General Act