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It is a crime for people to live in this rich nation and receive starvation wages. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Home Health Aides may be due Back Pay

HAGA CLIC AQUI PARA ESPAÑOL Home health aides who work 24-hour shifts may be due unpaid overtime wages ...
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Supreme Court Ruling on Day Rate

Yesterday, the US Supreme Court held that an oil rig worker who was paid a day rate to ...
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Managerial Misclassification

The NY Times recently highlighted a new trend in wage theft – misclassifying workers as managers, and then ...
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DOL/DOT Trucking Initiative – Posted March 29, 2022

The Biden-Harris Administration has announced a new initiative in which the Department of Labor and the Department of ...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Portrait

Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

On Friday, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at 87. She was a champion of women’s ...
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Labor Day Demonstration March

History of Labor Day

"We believe hard work nourishes the soul and should nourish the body and support the family as well. ...
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Misclassification – Posted August 4, 2020

Workers in many fields are misclassified as independent contractors, when by law, they are really employees who would ...
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Gig Economy Updates – Posted July 17, 2020

As workers throughout the country are laid off as a result of the coronavirus, they are increasingly turning ...
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Coronavirus Challenges for Workers

The coronavirus has presented a number of challenges to workers around the world. From temporary layoffs, to working ...
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Home Health Aides during Covid

Home health aides are some of the many healthcare providers who have been hard-hit during the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
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Supreme Court Rules to Protect LGBTQ+ Employees from Discrimination

In a major victory for gay, lesbian, and transgender workers, on June 15 the Supreme Court ruled that ...
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CA Complaint

Enforcing California’s Assembly Bill 5

We posted back in June of 2019 about the Dynamex case in California—now the California Attorney General and ...
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