The U.S. Supreme Court accepted June 28 a petition asking for clarification on what federal government workers must prove when they file discrimination claims. The main question for the court …
Forced labor lawsuit against Imperial Pacific progresses
mperial Pacific’s development of the Imperial Palace in Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) has faced plenty of problems, including delays and lawsuits. One of those lawsuits …
Lawsuit claims Grand America Hotel exploited immigrants
A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the luxury Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City of luring workers from the Philippines to a program that promised training and cultural immersion but …
TIANMING WANG, et al., vs. GOLD MANTIS CONSTRUCTION DECORATION (CNMI), LLC, et al.
The federal district court in Saipan issued a decision allowing the forced labor and human trafficking claims of seven Chinese construction workers to proceed. The case, Wang, et al. v. Gold …
The Double Standard of Antitrust Law
Antitrust law, established originally to limit corporate power, has become its friend. Think about the following anomalies: • If a group of independent truck drivers forms an association to jointly bargain …
Treat workers as employees? Uber, Lyft and others are scrambling for a compromise
Faced with a looming threat to their way of doing business, Uber, Lyft and other major on-demand companies are trying something they’ve historically been reluctant to do: seeking compromise. Anxious …
Weight discrimination is rampant. Yet in most places it’s still legal
The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City obsessively monitored the weight of its waitresses, according to 22 of them who sued it in 2008. They would be suspended, for example, …
New York Expands Harassment Laws
Major changes to New York’s harassment laws were among the flurry of bills advanced and passed by the New York State Legislature in the final hours of its 2019 Legislative …
What we know about the human trafficking scheme that allegedly forced dozens of Mexican men to work on Wisconsin farms
The five people indicted in late May in a Georgia-based human-trafficking scheme that federal authorities say illegally brought dozens of Mexican workers to work on Wisconsin farms have pleaded not guilty. The …
Opinion: Throwing drivers under the bus: Albany is poised to rush through a bill that purports to protect gig economy workers; it would do nothing of the sort
At a time when workers are under attack from all sides, organized labor needs to stand united to protect their rights. Unfortunately, this is not what we are seeing here …
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