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January 5, 2020
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

California’s controversial AB5 law came into effect on January 1, to fierce opposition from industry. The law codifies the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex test for classifying workers as employees, rather than independent contractors. Last week, Uber and Postmates filed a suit to challenge the law, arguing that the state legislature’s decision to exempt certain industries […]

September 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

The observance of Labor Day earlier this week has inspired a bumper crop of commentary on the history, present, and future of the American worker. In the New York Times, Noam Scheiber examines the relationship between established unions and grassroots labor activists. In recent years, says Scheiber, independent activists have invigorated workers in industries and […]

July 18, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

House Democrats are expected to pass the Raise the Wage Act today after overcoming opposition from within party ranks. The bill would gradually raise the federal minimum wage from its current level of $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour by 2024. Once the minimum reached $15, it would be indexed to inflation. The bill […]

June 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Graduate student workers at the University of Chicago held a three day strike last week to pressure the university to recognize and bargain with their union, Graduate Students United. As previously reported in OnLabor, UChicago student workers voted to unionize nineteen months ago, but the university administration has yet to sit down for contract negotiations. […]

June 2, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

Cai Shuang Chen, a delivery worker in New York, won $327,738 in a wage theft case in September 2017. However, Chen is unable to collect this money under New York state law, as the restaurant he worked for changed its name and thus technically no longer exists. In reality, the restaurant maintained most of its […]

April 10, 2019
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

Yesterday, House Democrats introduced a groundbreaking new bill to fight workplace sexual harassment. The #BeHeard Act (Bringing an End to Harassment By Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination in the Workplace Act) was written to ensure that the promise of #MeToo movement is made real in the lives of low-wage workers. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act […]

February 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

New Jersey on Monday became the fourth state to raise its hourly minimum wage to $15. Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the bill into law, paving the way for the new minimum wage to be phased in over five years. New Jersey joins California, Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia in adopting a […]

February 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

As sex workers around the country had warned, sex trafficking has spiked since the federal government enacted SESTA/FOSTA last year. For instance, San Francisco police recorded a 170% increase in human trafficking reports in 2018. Under the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act/Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA), website publishers are now held legally responsible if […]

December 14, 2018
News & Commentary

Sejal Singh

A restaurant workers’ organization is appealing a D.C. Superior Court’s order that blocked a referendum to raise D.C.’s sub-minimum base wage for tipped workers. In many states, including D.C., tipped workers like waiters, bartender, and manicurists can be paid a sub-minimum base wage — which, in D.C., is just $3.33 an hour — that is […]

July 17, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Seven fast food chains will stop enforcing “no poaching” agreements at all of their locations nationwide after an investigation by 11 state Attorney Generals. About 80% of fast food workers are constricted by these anti-competitive clauses, which critics say is an illegal practice that drives down wages for millions of workers. Arby’s, Auntie Anne’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Carl’s Jr., […]

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