Ottawa’s corporate-ethics watchdog has announced investigations into a gold-mining corporation and the Canadian branch of Nike over the possible use of forced labour by China’s Uyghur minority in their supply …
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub Sue New York City Over Minimum-Wage Law
DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub sued New York City on Thursday to block a new law that sets minimum wages for food-delivery workers, escalating a battle between the apps and the city over …
Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work
Guilherme spends between 12 and 14 hours a day, every day of the week, on his bike delivering orders around Tijuca, a middle-class neighborhood in northern Rio de Janeiro. Though …
5th Cir. Largely Upholds Religious Carveout to LGBTQ+ Rights
A federal appeals court in New Orleans partially affirmed a lower court order allowing religious for-profit employers to disregard anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ workers enshrined in a recent watershed US …
US requests probe of alleged labor abuses at Grupo Mexico mine
U.S. labor officials on Friday asked Mexico to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB.MX) mine in the central state of Zacatecas, the 11th U.S. labor complaint in Mexico …
US DOL, USTR REQUEST MEXICO REVIEW ALLEGED DENIAL OF LABOR RIGHTS AT SAN MARTÍN MINE IN ZACATECAS
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement today requested the government of Mexico review an allegation that the rights of workers are being denied at the San Martín …
Opera Workers’ Ruling Offers Path for Uber, Lyft Drivers to Unionize
A US labor board ruling on Tuesday laid the groundwork for drivers from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. and other gig workers to formally unionize – a still difficult but potentially transformative task. …
Labor Board Retools Crucial Independent Contractor Test
The National Labor Relations Board revamped its legal test for determining whether workers are employees covered by federal labor law or independent contractors who fall outside the law’s protections, bringing …
Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Here is the full decision of the US Supreme Court where it found that the union must take ‘reasonable precautions’ to protect an employer’s perishable product, which will likely open …
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Glacier Northwest Could Have Been Worse, But it’s Still Bad
As expected, all six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the employer in Glacier Northwest Inc. v. Teamsters. Due to strategic voting by Justices Kagan and …