Para mantener en línea el modelo laboral mexicano y dar cumplimiento a las exigencias de Estados Unidos y Canadá, asentadas en el T-MEC, nuestro país avanzará de manera muy rápida …
Government attack on workers’ rights will deny fair wages and benefits to contract faculty and already underpaid academic staff
Ontario faculty are deeply concerned by the Ford government’s attempt to cap public sector compensation increases at one per cent per year. This legislation represents an attack on the right …
High Court Weakens Employer Defense to Job Bias Claims
The high court said in a unanimous ruling that the requirement to file charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or similar state agencies isn’t a jurisdictional issue. That means …
West Virginia Senate passes sweeping education bill to ban teacher strikes
The West Virginia State Senate on Monday passed a sweeping education overhaul bill that would deem teacher strikes unlawful. The chamber voted 18-15 to advance the measure — after Senate Republicans inserted …
Gig economy: California bill granting employee status passes assembly
The state assembly in California passed legislation on Wednesday that would require employers to recognize hundreds of thousands of gig workers as employees and could have far-reaching implications for contractors across the …
California: AB-5 WORKER STATUS: EMPLOYEES AND INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
“Existing law, as established in the case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (2018) 4 Cal.5th 903 (Dynamex), creates a presumption that a worker who …
Court rules NY farm workers have right to organize
Farm workers in New York have the right to organize and collectively bargain after a state appeals court ruled Thursday that an exclusion for farm workers in state labor law …
NLRB to revisit ruling that granted graduate students the right to organize as employees
The National Labor Relations Board is set to revisit a 2016 ruling that granted teaching and research assistants at private universities legal protection to form unions, a move that could …
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