CA’s unemployment fraud may top $9 billion, doubling estimate, expert warns
From today’s Los Angeles Times: As an army of investigators tries to pin down the scope of unemployment benefit fraud in California, the head of a security firm working for…
OnlyFans: Jobless from the Pandemic, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling
From today’s New York Tiimes: Savannah Benavidez stopped working at her job as a medical biller in June to take care of her 2-year-old son after his day care shut…
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Grocery chains nationwide ditching in-house delivery drivers in wake of Prop 22
From today’s Business Insider: Albertsons and some of its subsidiaries, including Vons and Pavilions, are discontinuing their in-house delivery services in parts of California and other states starting in February.…
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
From today’s New York Times: More than 400 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of…
J-1 Visa Recipients Stuck in US during Pandemic Are Demanding Their Rights
From today’s The Nation Magazine Online: By mid-March, Mars was starting to worry. The 27-year-old was living and working in Little Rock, Ark., where the mayor had just imposed a…
Will rideshare drivers get paid less than minimum wage under Proposition 22
From today’s Sacramento Bee: Proposition 22 proposes that gig drivers for companies such as Uber, Lyft and Doordash will get paid 120% of the area’s minimum wage for the time…
I got COVID-19 working at Ralphs. We need a voice in workplace safety
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After spending seven weeks isolated in my bedroom sick with COVID-19, I stood in front of the Ralphs grocery store where I work, bracing to…
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It’s Time to Strike! This Could Be the Last Stand for American Workers
From today’s New York Times: Labor Day hit with an extra knife-twist of cruel irony this year, in an America that is barely trying to pretend anymore that the plight…
When Your Employer Doesn’t Respect Your Family Commitments
From today’s Harvard Business Review: When trying to balance your work and family commitments, it helps to have a boss who is understanding and supportive: someone who doesn’t raise an…
Instacart shoppers face unforgiving metrics: ‘It’s a very easy job to lose’
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Five days a week, Ryan Hartson scours the picked-over aisles of Mariano’s Fresh Market in Chicago to fill grocery delivery orders for Instacart. He clocks…