wage theft

How Ending DACA Hurts All Low-Wage Workers

This morning Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration will “wind down,” and in six months, end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a Department of Homeland Security initiative put in place in 2012 that temporarily deferred the deportation of approximately 800,000 young immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. DACA has …

How Ending DACA Hurts All Low-Wage Workers Read More »

Trump reversal of Obama-era labor rule is great news for corporations

A transgender woman is suing McDonald’s and the owner of the franchised restaurant she worked for after allegedly experiencing sexual harassment and discrimination. La’Ray Reed said a coworker asked if she were a “boy or girl,” “top or bottom,” or what her “role” was “in the bedroom.” She said she was groped and spied on while using …

Trump reversal of Obama-era labor rule is great news for corporations Read More »

Bosses are stealing billions from their workers’ paychecks, but it’s not treated like a crime

 Here’s a kind of theft almost no one goes to prison for. When an employer doesn’t pay workers the money they’ve earned, it has the same effect as if they got paid and then walked out on the street and had their pockets picked. But somehow wage theft—not paying workers the minimum wage for the hours …

Bosses are stealing billions from their workers’ paychecks, but it’s not treated like a crime Read More »

The Trump Economy Myth and Job-Killing Policies

Making America Great Again; every time a U.S. company hires a hundred people, or even a dozen, President Trump’s support network blasts out the message that this is what he’s doing. Now they’re crowing that unemployment fell to 4.5 percent in March, even though many say this number underrepresents how many people are actually out of work. Only …

The Trump Economy Myth and Job-Killing Policies Read More »

Republicans Repealing A Rule To Stop Wage Theft? It’s Who They Are

Who could be against rules that try to protect workers from having their pay stolen, having their health and safety put at risk, and being subjected to civil rights and labor law violations? See if you can guess who. Last August, President Obama implemented a ‘Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces’ executive order that aims to stop companies …

Republicans Repealing A Rule To Stop Wage Theft? It’s Who They Are Read More »

Think It’s Tough for Labor Now? Just Wait Until Trump Takes Office in January

In 63 days, organized labor is going to find itself in a new political reality, which it seems totally unprepared for. Donald Trump will be president; the Republicans will control the House and Senate and one of Trump’s first tasks will be to nominate a new Supreme Court justice. Though Trump was tight-lipped about specific …

Think It’s Tough for Labor Now? Just Wait Until Trump Takes Office in January Read More »

L.A. Port Strike Today Over Federal Contractor Wage Theft

  “An order that creates a culture of legal compliance could have a transformative impact on American industry.” George Faraday, Legal and Policy Director at Good Jobs Nation   Truck drivers and warehouse workers working for federal contractors at the Port of Los Angeles are striking for 48 hours to draw attention to wage theft …

L.A. Port Strike Today Over Federal Contractor Wage Theft Read More »

McDonald’s settles with franchise workers for $3.75 million in wage theft lawsuit

McDonald’s is still insisting it isn’t a joint employer of workers in franchise restaurants, but even so, it’s paying out millions to settle a lawsuit over labor law violations by a franchisee: In a filing in U.S. district court in San Francisco on Friday, lawyers representing about 800 employees at five restaurants owned by a …

McDonald’s settles with franchise workers for $3.75 million in wage theft lawsuit Read More »

Inequality Is Still the Defining Issue of Our Time

In 2011, President Obama, speaking in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, called inequality the “defining issue of our time.” Now Jason Furman, chair of the Council on Economic Advisors, argues that Obama “narrowed the inequality gap” more than any president in 50 years. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office echoes the observation that income inequality …

Inequality Is Still the Defining Issue of Our Time Read More »

Scroll to Top

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.