April 6, 2021

McGraw Hill Rejects Calls to Stop Charging Its Freelancers a Fee in Order to Get Paid

The revelation that McGraw Hill (MH), a multibillion-dollar educational publishing company, has begun charging its freelancers and independent contractors a fee in order to get paid has prompted a wave of public outrage, along with a letter from advocacy groups demanding that the company end the practice. The company’s response: No.  Two weeks ago, In These Times reported on the existence of the 2.2% fee that the company …

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Judge tosses Trump-era pork processing speed-up, this week in the war on workers

Line speeds in meat processing plants are a classic example of something that’s simultaneously a worker safety issue and a consumer safety issue. And this week, both workers and consumers got a major victory when a federal judge threw out a Trump-era rule allowing pork processing plants to operate at higher speeds. According to U.S. District Judge …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.