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Posted by Phillip Wilson | Feb 27, 2020 | Gig Economy, Industry, Legal, States
Uber and Postmates lost another round in the fight against AB5, California’s law designed to reclassify gig-economy workers from contractor to employee status. A U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Feb 27, 2020 | Industry, Legal, States
Tennessee lawmakers are looking to indoctrinate the state’s right to work law into its constitution via a constitutional amendment. Of the 27 states with right to work laws, 9 have put the provisions into their constitutions,...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Education, Industry, Legal, States, Strikes, Union Organizing
After a 27-day strike, the Harvard Graduate Student Union went back to work at the beginning of this month. The union, university, and a federal mediator have continued to meet for bargaining sessions since the end of the...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Gig Economy, Industry, Legal, States
California’s controversial AB 5 bill, which imposes the country’s strictest standards for determining whether or not an employee can be classified as a contractor, went into effect this month. Still, some gig companies and...
Read MorePosted by Phillip Wilson | Jan 23, 2020 | Industry, Legal, Retail, States
New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, issued an order last month announcing that by December 31, 2020, tipped workers will receive the minimum wage regardless of how much they make in tips. This will affect more than 70,000 tipped...
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