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Civil Rights Groups Say Uber Actively Hurts Black People

On Tuesday, groups including the ACLU and the National Employment Law Project, submitted an amicus brief—an advisory legal document containing arguments for courts to consider—to the court considering appeals by Uber …

Purchasing Power: How the U.S. Government Can Use Federal Procurement to Uphold Human Rights

Purchasing Power: How the U.S. Government Can Use Federal Procurement to Uphold Human Rights makes a series of recommendations to reform federal procurement from four high-risk sectors to ensure the human …

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THE CASE FOR TRANSPARENCY Using Data to Combat Human Trafficking Under Temporary Foreign Worker Visas

“Over the past several decades, millions of temporary foreign workers have come to the United States through nonimmigrant visa programs. Their importance and use in the United States economy is …

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U.S. lawmakers seek to tighten ban on forced-labor goods from China’s Xinjiang

Leading U.S. lawmakers proposed legislation on Wednesday aimed at preventing goods made from forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region from reaching the United States. The legislation would require importers to …

Labor Law Must Include All Workers

“In January of this year, we published a comprehensive set of recommendations for reforming U.S. labor law. Although the recommendations were extensive, the theory that lay behind them was straightforward: …

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Worker Classification Rule Gets White House OK for Release

“The U.S. Labor Department got the go-ahead from the White House regulatory office to release its high-stakes proposal for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor under federal wage …

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ISSUES UNDER THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: EMPLOYEE RIGHTS TO REFUSE TO WORK IN UNSAFE CONDITIONS, AND ISSUES FOR BARGAINING AND THOSE AFFECTING HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS

“In a nutshell, further elaborated in the following sections, the right of workers covered by the NLRA to be free from retaliation for engaging in concerted activities for mutual aid …

Why Uber and Lyft are taking a page out of big tobacco’s playbook in labor law battle

“Uber and Lyft are waging a scorched-earth regulatory battle to avoid providing basic benefits to their drivers, now considered essential workers, in their largest US market: California. In response to …

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Cleaners Demand Harassment Safeguards From the Booking Service Handy

It was supposed to be just another routine job for Patti Cris, who in early 2018 was a contract worker for the home services booking site Handy. She got the …

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Smithfield Fined $13,494 by OSHA After Worker Infections, Deaths

Smithfield Foods has been fined $13,494 for its failure to mitigate worker exposure to the coronavirus, the first such meatpacking company sanction imposed by OSHA during the pandemic. Nearly 1,300 …

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