A recently passed California law will force employers to post the salary range for any new job position with the goal of making the workplace more equitable. The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsome signed into place on September 27, 2022, will take effect on January 1, 2023.According to the law, any company in California with more than 15 employees must publish a salary range on any new job listing they post. Sen. Monique Limón (D-Goleta), who wrote...
As unemployment benefits designed specifically for the COVID pandemic began drawing to a close, workers who had yet to receive benefits due to a backlog in the system as well as those who remain unemployed quickly filed suit in multiple states including Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Maryland, and Texas. The Biden administration responded by extending the deadline for pandemic unemployment benefits in some places to September 6th, 2021, although some...
As the world slowly begins to settle into a new kind of normal, workers that remain unemployed following the pandemic have expressed alarm at the fact that COVID-19 unemployment benefits are set to end on Saturday, July 3rd. The Unemployed Workers Union responded to this impending change by filing a class action lawsuit against Maryland’s state labor secretary and Governor Larry Hogan.
The lawsuit seeks to ensure people receive the benefits...
On Thursday June 10th, the U.S. Labor Department released new workplace safety standards for healthcare facilities across the country. Even though the announcement came three months after the administration’s self-imposed deadline, this order is still considered an emergency temporary standard or ETS for healthcare settings. Although no official federal rules have been issued for COVID safety in other industries, labor unions across the board...
Overtime pay typically refers to the money an employee makes by working more than 40 hours a week; according to federal law, overtime pay must be equal to no less than time and a half of the employee’s standard wages. While some employees may be exempt from receiving overtime, most non-exempt workers are eligible under both state and federal law to receive overtime pay surpassing 40 hours of work in one week. Some states may also have a daily...
Amazon is facing a proposed class action lawsuit on behalf of current and former employees across the country who took short-term military leave between October 10th, 2004 through the present. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon is in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by habitually denying employed servicemembers the same short-term leave benefits applied to employees who take off work for...
Civilian employers failing to protect and abide by service members’ rights has long been a problem in the United States. According to NATO, the U.S. military’s reserve components consist of 1.1 million members, and according to Statista, the Army National Guard consists of more than 336,000 members. Due to the part-time nature of these positions with service members being called to action only for brief periods of time over the course of...
In 2019, Blackjewel, a prominent coal-mining company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy before closing over 30 mines on the same day, leaving hundreds of workers suddenly without jobs or pay. A Wyoming miner David Engelbrecht quickly filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of other Wyoming Blackjewel miners affected by the sudden closure. In the lawsuit, Engelbrecht is seeking lost pay and benefits he believes that he and other similarly situated...