Is Gig Work a Job? Uber and Others Are Maneuvering to Shape the Answer

It was a potentially sweeping proposal from a Texas regulator: Companies that use a “digital network” to dispatch workers the way Uber does could label them contractors rather than employees. …

Rights at Risk: Gig Companies’ Campaign to Upend Employment as We Know It

Ride-hailing giant Uber and aspiring “Uber of home services” Handy, along with other tech-companies-cumservice-providers, have been conspiring with powerful corporate allies and lobbyists on a far-reaching, multi-million-dollar influence campaign to …

Janus’s Progeny? A Supreme Court Threat to Majority Rule Looms

At a time when democracy is under attack around the world, the Supreme Court is currently contemplating taking two labor rights cases that pose a profound threat not just to …

Editorial: A Day of Rest May Get a Day in Court

The Supreme Court inched closer this week to undoing a decades-old mistake that has denied meaningful workplace protections for religious employees. On Monday the high court asked the solicitor general …

Facebook agrees to overhaul targeted advertising system for job, housing and loan ads after discrimination complaints

Facebook on Tuesday agreed to overhaul its lucrative targeted advertising system to settle accusations that landlords, lenders and employers use the platform to discriminate. The far-reaching settlement compels Facebook to …

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“Do Immigrants Trust Trade Unions? A Study of 18 European Countries” (United Kingdom; European Union; United States)

This article examines, via systematic cross-national empirical analysis of migrants’ attitudes in Western Europe, whether unions have been able to gain the trust of migrants, as expressed by the migrants …

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Hong Kong owner of Pacific island casino sued over forced labour, trafficking claims

Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific, the owner of a multi-billion Saipan gaming project, is being sued by former construction workers who say they were victims of forced labour and human trafficking …

Uber Settles Drivers’ Lawsuit for $20 Million

Uber on Monday settled a long-running legal battle with drivers in California and Massachusetts who wanted the ride-hailing company to recognize them as employees, agreeing to pay the drivers $20 …

Court Dismisses Cocoa Supply Chain Labor Non-Disclosure Suit Against Nestlé

A federal court in the District of Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that multinational food giant Nestlé failed to disclose the alleged presence of “child and slave labor” in its cocoa …

US Women’s National Soccer Team lawsuit: What we know and what it means going forward

With a little more than three months until the U.S. plays its opening game in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, 28 members of the current U.S. women’s national team player …

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