Court Denies Trump Administration Request to Expedite Appeal of Workforce EO Decision

A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Thursday mostly denied a request by the Trump administration to expedite its appeal of a U.S. District Court …

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More Than 7,000 Marriott Workers Across the U.S. Are On Strike

Roughly 7,700 Marriott hotel workers are on strike nationally as of Monday, as housekeepers, desk attendants, and other non-management employees from a handful of Hawaii hotels joined strikes already ongoing in Boston, …

Post-Epic Systems, Kentucky Supreme Court Holds That Under State Law, Employers Cannot Require Mandatory Arbitration Agreements as a Condition of Employment

Earlier this year, the United States Supreme Court held in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that employers can require employees to agree to arbitrate disputes between them solely on an individual basis …

Marriott workers on strike in eight US cities

About 7,700 Marriott International employees in eight cities have walked out on strike and say they will stay off the job until they reach an agreement on a new contract with the …

Human trafficking survivor describes forced labor ordeal in U.S.

Evelyn Chumbow of Cameroon says she was only nine years old when she was trafficked into forced labor in the Washington, D.C., area. Chumbow, who’s now in her mid-30s, says she …

The #MeToo effect: Sexual harassment charges with the EEOC rose for the first time in years

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Harvey Weinstein allegations being reported, the tinder that sparked the #MeToo movement into a full-fledged fire, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …

Federal judge allows forced labor lawsuit against Tesla to continue

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] refused [opinion, PDF] Monday to dismiss two forced labor claims against Tesla [corporate website] in a lawsuit filed by two former …

Unions accuse IKEA of undermining workers’ rights in three markets

Unions accused furniture retailer IKEA on Thursday of undermining workers’ rights in the United States, Ireland and Portugal, and asked the Dutch government to mediate.  The international UNI Global Union and …

How gay rights activists remade the federal government

The 40th anniversary of the Civil Service Reform Act — a signature accomplishment of President Jimmy Carter — fittingly falls during LGBT History Month. When Carter signed the bill into …

The gig economy isn’t going anywhere. 4 experts explain why

Last year, in the New Yorker’s dive into whether the sharing economy would persist, writer Nathan Heller compared the gig economy to the “Conscious III” people from Charles A. Reich’s 1970 …

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