The No Robot Bosses Act would prohibit employers from relying exclusively on automated decision-making systems in making employment decisions such as hiring or firing workers. The bill would require testing and …
DoorDash Banned Discussing Work Issues and Fired Worker For Organizing, Labor Board Alleges
DoorDash Inc. illegally prohibited office employees from discussing working conditions and fired one because of their organizing efforts, US labor board prosecutors alleged. The food delivery company threatened to punish …
Court rules against Uber in major win for California workers
Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N) must face a California lawsuit claiming it should have covered UberEats drivers’ work-related expenses, the state’s top court said on Monday, in what could be a major …
NLRB Files Complaint Against Amazon for Refusing to Bargain with Union
The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Amazon for refusing to bargain with the Amazon Labor Union on Wednesday. “It’s about time,” said Chris Smalls, president of the …
NLRB Files Complaint Against Amazon for Refusing to Bargain with Union
The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against Amazon for refusing to bargain with the Amazon Labor Union on Wednesday. “It’s about time,” said Chris Smalls, president of the …
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub Sue New York City Over Minimum-Wage Law
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub sued New York City on Thursday to block a new law that sets minimum wages for food-delivery workers, escalating a battle between the apps and the city over …
5th Cir. Largely Upholds Religious Carveout to LGBTQ+ Rights
A federal appeals court in New Orleans partially affirmed a lower court order allowing religious for-profit employers to disregard anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ workers enshrined in a recent watershed US …
US requests probe of alleged labor abuses at Grupo Mexico mine
U.S. labor officials on Friday asked Mexico to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX) mine in the central state of Zacatecas, the 11th U.S. labor complaint in Mexico …
US DOL, USTR REQUEST MEXICO REVIEW ALLEGED DENIAL OF LABOR RIGHTS AT SAN MARTÍN MINE IN ZACATECAS
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement today requested the government of Mexico review an allegation that the rights of workers are being denied at the San Martín …
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Ninth Circuit Allows Human Rights Claims Against Cisco to Proceed
There may yet be life in the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The Ninth Circuit recently held, in Doe I v. Cisco Systems, Inc., that Chinese practitioners of Falun Gong could go forward with …