US EEOC scraps guidance that expanded workplace protections for LGBTQ workers

The U.S. agency that enforces laws prohibiting workplace discrimination on Thursday rescinded legal guidance that had strengthened protections against unlawful harassment for LGBTQ workers and women who have abortions. The …

Trump Agencies Seek White Men for Hard-to-Prove Job Bias Cases

Federal civil rights agency leaders shifting enforcement to protect White men from alleged workplace bias are set to hit hurdles finding plaintiffs and proving discrimination in court. The heads of …

Regulators say DoorDash and Uber Eats chiseled NYC delivery workers out of $550M in tips

City regulators on Tuesday accused Uber and DoorDash of deliberately altering their app interfaces to discourage customers from tipping food delivery workers, a move that has cost the employees more …

Behind Oklahoma Cannabis Farms, New Yorkers With Ties to Beijing

The police found him in his bedroom in Edmond, Okla., facedown, dead from a gunshot wound and still gripping the bloody kitchen knife he had used to try to defend …

They Were Supposed to Protect Young Workers. Instead, They Cashed In.

One group paid its leader more than $500,000 a year while shipping foreign trainees to American jobs where they said they felt like slaves. Another put the wife, daughters and …

NLRB Wins Court Order Blocking California’s New Labor Board Law

California’s state labor board can’t assert authority for now over private-sector union disputes that traditionally fall under federal jurisdiction, a court ruled in blocking enforcement of a new state law. …

Building Worker Power in a Precarious Federal Landscape: Sectoral Strategies and Worker Democracy

This post launches a new series exploring how states and cities can expand worker power in the United States. The series is grounded in a set of working papers and …

How to Save Labor Law from Slaughter

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question whether independent agencies, as they have been known for the last ninety years, can continue to exist. In Trump v. Slaughter, …

Justice Dept. kills long-time tool used to prove racial discrimination

After years of conservative complaints, the Justice Department moved Tuesday to kill a decades-old provision of civil rights law that allows statistical disparities to be used as proof of racial …

Amazon pays out over alleged Seattle ordinance violations

Amazon has agreed to pay $3.7m (£2.7m) to close an investigation into alleged breaches of a Seattle gig worker ordinance, continuing a recent trend of national employers falling afoul of …