From today’s Washington Post: For years, Walmart workers have attended the company’s annual shareholders meeting to call for higher wages, better benefits and more predictable schedules. This year they’ll have…
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…
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…
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…
From today’s New York Times: Delivery has always been a rough business. Since time immemorial, couriers have braved the elements, gotten by on meager wages and dealt with annoying customers,…
From The Nation Magazine: There are about 2 million domestic workers in the country, a workforce that is only growing larger as baby boomers age and millennials have children. But…
From today’s Rolling Stone Magazine: A few angry men on the internet have launched a campaign encouraging others to report sex workers to the IRS for failing to report income…
From today’s New York Times: Federal officials are investigating allegations that Uber discriminated against women in hiring and pay, another federal inquiry into a company that has been rocked by…
From today’s Washington Post: Seventy may be the new 60, and 80 may be the new 70, but 85 is still pretty old to work in America. Yet in some…
From today’s New York Times: For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of…