Workers, Should You Tell the World How Much Money You Make?
From today’s New York Times: There are many questions Alison Green is asked as a columnist who writes about workplace issues. There was the woman who wanted to know if…
Labor Dept. Says Workers at a Gig Company Are Contractors
From today’s New York Times: The Labor Department weighed in Monday on a question whose answer could be worth billions of dollars to gig-economy companies, deciding that one company’s workers…
SCOTUS To Hear Cases On Title VII Protections For LGBTQ Employees
From today’s NPR News Online: The Supreme Court has accepted three cases that ask whether federal anti-discrimination laws should apply to sexual orientation and gender identity in the workplace, putting…
He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012 and He Makes About $40,000 a Year
From today’s New York Times: Uber’s public stock offering next month will make a bunch of people remarkably rich. Peter Ashlock is not one of them, although he has toiled…
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Lawmaker in Congressional hearing on bank CEOs’ pay: “It doesn’t look good”
From today’s CBS News Online: Making their first appearance before Congress since the financial crisis a decade ago, the CEOs of America’s biggest banks told lawmakers their financial institutions are…
The Gig 101: The Con of the Side Hustle
From today’s New York Times: An attractive woman behind the wheel of a gray car says to the camera, “These days anyone can have a side hustle.” She then whisks…
The $70,000-a-Year Minimum Wage
From today’s New York Times: Staff members gasped four years ago when Dan Price gathered the 120 employees at Gravity Payments, the company he had founded with his brother, and…
Labor Department moves to ease franchise liability for wage violations
From today’s Reuters News: The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday issued a proposal that would make it more difficult to prove companies are liable for the wage law violations…
McDonald’s Announces It Will No Longer Lobby Against Minimum Wage Hikes
From today’s CNBC News Online: McDonald’s will no longer take part in efforts to lobby against raising the minimum wage at the federal, state or local level, the fast-food giant…
Six countries give women the same work rights as men, US not one of them
From today’s Washington Post: A decade ago, no country in the world treated men and women equally under the law, according to a gender equality index from the World Bank.…