Nearly 100,000 au pairs, mostly women, who worked in American homes over the past decade will be entitled to payment under the proposed settlement filed in Denver federal court.
In its decision, the D.C appellate court affirmed one of the most significant and disputed labor rulings of the Obama administration.
When the Fair Labor Standards Act and the National Labor Relations Act were enacted in the 1930s, both excluded domestic workers.
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A book posits that widespread oppression at work is a failure of America’s political system.
Some companies are now using monitoring techniques—referred to as “people analytics”—to learn as much as they can about you, from your communication patterns to what types of websites you visit to how often you use the bathroom.
Bracelet, which can vibrate to point an employee’s hand in the right direction, would further increase surveillance of work environment
Access to the courts is now barred for more than 60 million American workers
What has remained is the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) position that Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects workers’ substantive rights to join together in class actions.
The NLRB has found these forced arbitration agreements interfere with workers’ right to engage in concerted activity for their mutual aid and protection, in violation of the NLRA.
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