Workers Don’t Want a Handout – They Want Respect!
The world has spent the last fifteen months waging war against a pandemic, a battle that is still raging in many parts of the globe. Millions of people lost their [...]
The Massive Crime of Wage Theft
The largest growth sector over the last ten years has not been in technology, transportation, or communications. Unfortunately, the largest growth sector we have seen in the U.S. has been [...]
The Productivity–Pay Gap
From 1979 to 2018, net productivity rose 108.1 percent, while the hourly pay of typical workers essentially stagnated—increasing only 11.6 percent over 39 years (after adjusting for inflation). This means [...]
IL: Attorney General Raoul Convenes First Meeting Of Worker Protection Task Force
“Partnerships between government and prosecutors will help us better fight wage theft and other unlawful employment practices that harm employees and law-abiding businesses,” Raoul said. - WorkersCompensation.com Illinois is taking [...]
State, Delco join forces to battle construction misclassifications
Misclassification of workers across numerous industries is a problem not only for employees who should be receiving certain benefits, but also for society at large when payroll tax, unemployment insurance [...]
Prevailing wage, workforce requirements expanded to cover most St. Louis developments receiving incentives
Now, nearly all large projects that request tax incentives will have workforce labor goals of 20% apprentice hours, 25% minority hours, 7% women hours and 23% city resident hours. - [...]
They Were Making Poverty Wages, Plus Tips, Before COVID-19. Now What?
No industry has been immune from job loss in this health crisis, but for service workers like May-Seward, it’s been particularly awful. - HuffPost From the large restaurant chain to [...]
‘I’m working to survive, not to live.’ Essential workers face pay gaps during the pandemic
"There’s been constant union-busting behavior among too many employers." - USA Today Companies in the US are seeing the lack of oversight from the federal government during this pandemic as [...]
Finkenauer seeks to end ‘loophole’ in Iowa use of federal transportation funds
“The whole point of this is to be able to keep jobs local, to make sure that we’re supporting our local manufacturers as we do it.” - Dispatch-Argus Federal transportation [...]
Scalia open to extending jobless benefits, but with changes
This of course discourages people from returning to work or taking a new job, thus delaying the recovery.” - Roll Call When the head of the Department of Labor believes [...]