One job should be enough’: Marriott hotel workers’ strike hits eight US cities

In eight cities across the US, almost 8,000 Marriott hotel employees are walking picket lines demanding better wages, workplace safety, and a seat at the table for technology changes in …

Doe v. Nestle

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday revived a lawsuit claiming that Nestle SA and agribusiness company Cargill Inc. aided and abetted child slavery on cocoa farms …

Nestle, Cargill Child Slavery Suit Gets Revived by 9th Circuit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday revived a long-running lawsuit claiming that Nestle SA and agribusiness company Cargill Inc. aided and abetted child slavery on cocoa …

‘Transgender’ Could Be Defined Out of Existence Under Trump Administration

The Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth, the most drastic move yet in a governmentwide effort to roll back …

Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination

If you are a Verizon customer on the East Coast, odds are good that your cellphone or tablet arrived by way of a beige, windowless warehouse near Tennessee’s border with …

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 …

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