worker rights
Lawyers Unsure Whether Workers Who Agreed Not To Can Now Disparage Former Bosses
What does this week's NLRB decision mean for the people who already signed such non-disparagement clauses but deeply want to disparage their terrible former bosses? The answer is unclear, almost chaotically so.
FTC Proposes Ban on Worker Non-Compete Clauses
The agency stated that noncompete clauses are bad for both the labor market and innovation. The proposed rule would make them illegal.
ALB1 Workers Will Not Join the Amazon Labor Union
The warehouse would have been the second Amazon facility ever to unionize, but the vote was unsuccessful.
Workers Say Amazon Is Punishing Them for Observing Union Vote
“It’s just making it harder and harder to get participants to act as observers when the employer’s telling them they’re going to lose out.”
FTC Says It Will ‘Crack Down’ on Gig Companies That Mislead Their Workers
The policy, implemented Friday, hopes to give gig workers more control over their employment, as well as get rid of deceptions about pay or benefits.
Tech CEOs Want Every Worker to Have a Permanent, Publicly-Available Job Performance File
Two CEOs on a podcast casually proposed a shareable database of worker performance that would follow them between companies, forever, and encouraged listeners to create one. HR professionals say it's a terrible idea.
McDonald’s Workers Are Setting Up Their Own Sexual Harassment Training
“If the company really does care, then if the workers come up with something good, they should work with the workers on it, right?”
A Plan to Tame Labor Unions for Uber and Lyft Has Been Scrapped In New York
A bill that would have given gig workers limited collective bargaining rights without a minimum wage was pulled on Tuesday
Drivers Are Protesting a Proposition 22 Clone In Massachusetts
As legislation that exempts gig companies like Uber from classifying workers as employees spreads nationwide, drivers in Boston are fighting for their rights.
May Day Protesters Shared Pepsi with Cops by Throwing Cans at Them
The soda has become a weapon of unity, but maybe not in the way that their advertising team had hoped.
Garment Factories in Bangladesh Are Trying on Gender Equality for Size
Four years after the collapse of Rana Plaza, the country's thriving ready made garment industry is starting to shine light on more than improved infrastructure.
The Cambodian Moms Sacrificing Their Health and Family to Make Your Clothes
They are the backbone of the country's garment industry—and its economy. But poor working conditions force many factory workers to live apart from their kids.