Forced To Work Without Pay: Do Federal Employees Have a Thirteenth Amendment Claim?

The federal government shutdown is precipitating a wave of lawsuits and talk of sick-outs and strikes. That should be no surprise when approximately 400,000 federal employees are being required to work without pay. Wait, “required.”?Talk of being “forced” or …

3rd Circuit will be first appeal court to consider classification of Uber drivers

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday will become the first federal appeals court to consider whether Uber Technologies Inc properly classifies its drivers as independent contractors rather …

L.A. Street Sellers Outlawed No More

Officials have estimated that there are 50,000 street vendors in Los Angeles, and selling on the city’s sidewalks is often the first profession for newly arrived immigrants. On the streets, many …

Whitmer takes aim at gender pay gap for state workers

LANSING — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive directive Tuesday aimed at curbing the wage gap between men and women working in state government. Hiring managers at state departments and agencies may no …

Big Business Bias: Employment Discrimination and Sexual Harassment at Large Corporations

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the total costs of discrimination penalties in the US.   It uses federal and state court records to shows the majority of large US …

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AN ACT CONCERNING BASIC LABOR STANDARDS FOR TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANY DRIVERS.

The bill, before the General Assembly of Connecticut, would provide basic labor standards for transportation network company drivers including by requiring drivers to receive seventy-five per cent of the money …

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BROWNING-FERRIS INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA, INC. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

The D.C. Circuit Court upheld (2-1) the NLRB’s 2015 decision in which it articulated a joint-employer standard which considered not only direct control over the employees’ terms and conditions of …

Ohio Executive Order 2018-12K

The Executive Order, signed by outgoing Ohio Governor John Kasich extends the prohibition on employment discrimination of state employees to include “gender identity” in order to provide protection to transgendered …

Gov. Kasich bars anti-trans discrimination in Ohio state workforce

With less than a month remaining in office, Ohio Gov. John Kasich — a prominent critic of President Trump within his own party — signed on Wednesday an executive order …

Individual Struggles, Widespread Injustice

A new report from The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) captures the systemic employment discrimination against trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people in New York City. Individual Struggles, Widespread Injustice contains …

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