With little time to relish in a major employment win in California, Uber, Lyft and others with a similar business model are now preparing to possibly take their fight against reclassifying their gig workers as employees to the national level.  Labor Secretary Marty Walsh told Reuters in a recent interview that he supports the...

Workers across the United States could soon be afforded certain privileges that could be life-changing in many cases.  As part of President Joe Biden’s ‘American Families Plan,’ he is calling for a slew of social initiatives — billed as “an investment in our kids, our families, and our economic future” — that would include,...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed new legislation to require some businesses in the Golden State to rehire workers who were laid off amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  Senate Bill 93 was approved April 16 and immediately became law.  Through 2024, it requires employers to offer “displaced” workers their jobs back if they had been let...

California fast food workers are rallying together to tout a proposed bill that they say would help them achieve better working conditions and support for fighting labor law violations in the eateries they serve. In April, a weeklong series of demonstrations took place in locations across the state, including Sacramento, San Diego, Los Angeles...

A California-based production company is being sued for negligence after a stuntman says he lost his leg while filming a blockbuster motion picture.  Maryland resident Shamar Parker, who doubled for Will Smith in ‘Bad Boys For Life,’ filed a lawsuit on March 12 in a Georgia federal court for the stunt-gone-wrong.  He’s accusing Columbia...

A man who worked his way up the employment chain at a Walmart store in Massachusetts says he was fired from his job after he complained about discrimination in the workplace.  Marc Brown, who worked for Walmart from February 2016 through March 2019, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of...

A new program aimed at helping to protect “high risk” workers from contracting COVID-19 was announced this week by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  The “national emphasis program” is designed to aid in safety enforcement efforts and comes after President Joe Biden issued an executive order about protecting worker...

A California-based food supplier company is being sued in Georgia federal court by a former employee who claims he was fired for requesting to work remotely during the pandemic.  Alan Varnadoe, 66, filed the suit March 8.  He was a scheduler for one of the plants owned by Golden State Foods in Georgia who...

In case Uber drivers in California didn’t get the message in November, a federal judge is helping drive home the message: “The will of the voters is clearly against” a group trying to sue for employee misclassification.  The drivers, represented by Ronald L. Zambrano of West Coast Trial Lawyers APLC, were pushing to continue...

Despite the backing of the high-powered ACLU, meatpacking workers who filed suit against their employer for claims that safety measures were not properly in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus have been blocked by a federal judge.  U.S. District Judge John M. Gerrard decided this month that the case, Alma et al....