This summer, our legal team has been very busy filing comments against US DOL’s worker attacks. After a relatively quiet 2018 at the United States Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division, in 2019 it proposed three anti-worker regulatory proposals in quick succession.
To truly tackle the problem of wage theft in our current system, which almost always places on workers the burden and risk of coming forward to report violations, we have to simultaneously address the problem of retaliation.
New national report, The New Social Contract for Workers, calling on elected leaders to embrace a slate of new public policies to promote workplace democracy and human rights for America’s workers.
“The passage in California of AB5 is a resounding victory for workers and responsible businesses in that state and across the nation. California is paving the way for other states to ensure that workers are not carved out of the employee rights and benefits that they need and deserve. "
This Labor Day, it’s time we fight to restore Democratic rights in the workplace — including the right to form a union, which for decades, have been under assault.
