Grubhub Driver’s Appeal Tackles Unsolved California Gig Issues

Former food delivery driver Raef Lawson still wants payback from Grubhub Inc. in one of the earliest lawsuits to define legal fights against gig economy companies in California, even after tectonic shifts …

Uber and Lyft Ramp Up Legislative Efforts to Shield Business Model

Gig economy companies are backing state laws in New York and elsewhere that would cement drivers’ status as contractors in exchange for a union. After California passed a law in 2019 …

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to wage a multi-year, multi-agency effort to combat worker misclassification

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to wage a multi-year, “multi-agency effort to combat worker misclassification,” according to its Fiscal Year 2022 White House budget proposal. Part of its proposal would specifically target …

Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other gig companies said California’s Prop 22 would create opportunity for workers of color. A new study says it ‘legalized racial subordination.’

Last year, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber-owned Postmates spent a record $203 million to convince California voters to pass Proposition 22, a company-authored ballot measure that let them avoid paying for …

It’s time to learn if the new Nafta’s worker protections have any teeth

Susana Prieto Terrazas is not a woman to trifle with. In recent years, the attorney became the most well-known labor organizer in Mexico, a burr in the saddle of factory …

Reforma laboral corre el riesgo de quedar en letra muerta: especialistas

Especialistas laborales que integran la Red Sindicalista de Mujeres y el Observatorio Laboral para la Reforma Laboral hicieron un llamado a los trabajadores a conocer y aplicar los cambios a …

The New Racial Wage Code

“The legal identity of on-demand platform workers has become a central site of conflict between labor and industry. Amidst growing economic inequality, labor representatives and workers have demanded that platform …

Lawmakers Should Oppose New York’s Uber Bill: Workers need real sectoral bargaining not company unionism

Uber and other gig companies are rushing to pass a bill in the final weeks of Albany’s legislative session that would undermine labor standards for the growing millions of app-based …

Labor, Gig Companies Near Bargaining Deal in N.Y.

New legislation creating collective bargaining rights for gig-economy workers is poised to be introduced in New York State in the coming weeks, according to the president of the Transport Workers Union. …

How district attorneys and state attorneys general are fighting workplace abuses

Historically wage theft and other crimes against workers have not been prosecuted. Rather, civil enforcement by labor departments, along with private class-action lawsuits, have more commonly been the methods used …