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NY EMPIRE Act – Posted January 29, 2020
Yesterday, workers and lawmakers gathered in Albany to show support for New York’s EMPIRE Act. The “Empowering People in Rights Enforcement Worker Protection Act” was introduced as a bill to protect workers from wage theft. Corporations and employers use forced arbitration agreements to compel workers to waive their right to be heard by a judge…
Read MorePostmates Arbitration – posted January 15, 2020
Employers fight hard to enforce their arbitration provisions, until they realize it’s not really what they want. Over 5,200 people filed individual arbitrations against Postmates pursuant to their arbitration agreement that Postmates created. Just to cover the initial filing fees for the cases to begin would cost Postmates over $13 million, so it has now…
Read MoreAddressing Retaliation Concerns – Posted June 19, 2019
One of the most common questions we hear from people who want to bring a case or join an existing case is “can my employer come after me?” Section 15(a)(3) of the FLSA states that it is a violation for any person to “discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed…
Read MoreNew California Bill Poses Challenges to Gig Economy
California is on its way to passing a law that would more or less eliminate independent contractors, presenting a potentially major blow to the gig economy. In May 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the Dynamex Operations West Inc. v Superior Court of Los Angeles case, finding that most workers are,…
Read MoreForced Arbitration – New Supreme Court Decision – posted May 10, 2019
The issue of forced arbitration continues to be a hot topic. In a recent decision in the Lamps Plus v. Varela case, the Supreme Court Ruled that under the Federal Arbitration Act, an ambiguous agreement cannot be interpreted to mean that the parties agreed to class arbitration. So what does this mean? Before this ruling,…
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