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22 Democratic senators want to know how sexual harassment financially impacts women

Leave a Comment / sexual harassment / By max cyril

Twenty-two Democratic senators are calling on the Labor Department to collect additional, better data regarding sexual harassment in the workplace. The senators sent a letter to the department, signed by Sen. Kristen Gillibrand and co-signed by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Kamala Harris (D-CA), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), among others. Not a single …

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Tips Are More Important Than You Think

Leave a Comment / MinimumWage / By max cyril

The Donald Trump Labor Department is proposing a rule change that would mean that restaurant servers and bartenders could lose a large portion of their earnings. The rule would overturn one put in place by the Barack Obama administration initiated, which prevents workers in tipped industries from having their tips taken by their employers. Under …

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Labor Department Proposes Legalizing Wage Theft

Leave a Comment / Department of Labor / By max cyril

The Labor Department is moving quickly to establish a new rule that would make tips the property of restaurant owners instead of workers. This week, President Donald Trump’s administration proposed getting rid of an existing rule that makes tips the property of servers that restaurant owners cannot take away. Under the new proposal, restaurant owners who …

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With All Eyes on DACA, the Trump Administration Is Quietly Killing Overtime Protections

Leave a Comment / overtime pay / By max cyril

On September 5, the administration of Donald Trump formally announced that they won’t try to save Obama’s overtime rule, effectively killing a potential raise for millions of Americans. This disturbing development has largely slipped under the radar during a busy news week, marked by Trump’s scrapping of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. …

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When the Parades Are Over, Who Stands With Unions?

Labor Department wants to reward financial advisors at the expense of consumers

Leave a Comment / retirement / By max cyril

The Labor Department would like to delay a rule that would require financial advisors to act in the best interest of their customers and their retirement accounts. The federal court filing, made on Wednesday, said the department wants to delay implementation of the rule to July 2019. The full implementation of the rule is currently …

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Trump has bad news for millions of workers in line for overtime pay under Obama

Leave a Comment / overtime pay / By max cyril

Donald Trump’s major life goal at this point seems to be rolling back everything good President Barack Obama did for the country and its people—and now he’s coming for your overtime pay. Obama had sought to raise the overtime eligibility threshold to include millions more workers, a change that was supposed to go into effect in December but …

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Tell the Labor Department Not to Repeal the Persuader Rule

Leave a Comment / Department of Labor / By max cyril

The Labor Department issued a proposal on Monday that would rescind the union-buster transparency rule, officially known as the persuader rule, designed to increase disclosure requirements for consultants and attorneys hired by companies to try to persuade working people against coming together in a union. The rule was supposed to go into effect last year, …

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Sometimes hiring discrimination is committed by a bigot—and sometimes it’s by standardized test

Leave a Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

You might think that a standardized test would be a way to eliminate discrimination from job hiring—everyone gets the same questions, and everyone’s answers are graded in the same way. But you’d be wrong. In fact, some standardized tests used widely by employers looking to screen job-seekers can be instruments of discrimination, Will Evans reports. …

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