Antitrust, the Gig Economy, and Labor Market Power

Worker bargaining power has diminished over the last forty years. Between 1948 and 1979, median wages closely tracked output per worker.1 Since then, productivity has continued to increase (until leveling …

Behind the Smiles: Amazon’s internal injury records expose the true toll of its relentless drive for speed

When Candice Dixon showed up for her first day of work at an Amazon warehouse in Eastvale, California, she stepped into a wonder of automation, efficiency and speed. Inside the …

The PRO Act and Workplace Fissuring

For too many people, work means low pay, unpredictable hours, and nonexistent opportunities for advancement. A major reason for this dire situation is what David Weil has termed “workplace fissuring.” Fissuring occurs …

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How protecting immigrant farmworkers benefits everyone in the food chain

Suppose all the people in US without proper documentation did all just leave one day. Millions, back to their countries of origin. What next? Well, those of us left behind …

Compendio sobre la igualdad y no discriminación. Estándares Interamericanos

La CIDH ha elaborado este compendio con el propósito de brindar una herramienta de cooperación técnica a disposición de los usuarios y usuarias del sistema, operadores estatales de políticas públicas, …

Equality and Non-Discrimination: Inter-American Standards Compendium

The IACHR has prepared the present compendium for the purpose of providing a technical cooperation tool to be made available to users of the system, State agents of public policies, …

The State of the Deregulatory First Amendment at the NLRB

I often criticize the Trump NLRB for taking too narrow a view of workers’ rights, creating an inevitable clash with First Amendment principles. But recently, I’ve had the opposite complaint: …

Destituyeron a un juez por descreer de un testimonio de violencia machista

Por primera vez en el país, un Tribunal de Enjuiciamiento destituyó en septiembre pasado al juez penal Nicolás Muse Chemes, de la provincia de Santa Fe, por no aplicar las …

Heller v. Uber: Supreme Court Must Guard Access to Class Action Lawsuits

On appeal from a decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal issued earlier this year, the case involved the legality of a mandatory arbitration clause in Uber’s standard form contract with drivers …

How California’s AB5 protects workers from misclassification

In September, California adopted a new law aimed at combatting the misclassification of workers. The legislation, Assembly Bill (AB) 5, will take effect on January 1, 2020. AB5 adopts the …