Amazon to Pay $62 Million Fine for Withholding Tips From Delivery Drivers
From today’s New York Times: Amazon agreed on Tuesday to pay $62 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that it withheld tips to delivery drivers over a…
Op-Ed: The Work-From-Home Employee Bill of Rights Outlined in Seven Articles
From today’s ComputerWorld Online: Remote work became the new normal quickly as COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns came into force in spring 2020, and it’s clear that after the pandemic recedes, remote…
Biden to sign executive orders boosting workers’ rights and pushing for $15 minimum wage for federal staff
From today’s Business Insider Online: President Joe Biden has planned a series of actions aimed at raising the minimum wage for federal staff to $15 and boosting workers’ rights, Brian…
MLK’s Legacy Includes “Poor People’s Campaign” to Combat Poverty
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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…