Labor Laws

Working Kids... to Disability and Death

Bruce Lesley | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Department of Labor, Dolores Huerta, Agribusiness, Workplace Safety, Child Labor Laws, Farming, CARE Act, Labor Laws, Agricultural Policy, Impact News

According to a report in the Journal of Pediatrics, approximately 26,650 youth are injured on farms every year. Of these injuries, more than 3,700 require hospitalization. Now, passing the CARE Act is even more important.

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Bill Passed Banning Employers From Asking For Facebook, Twitter Passwords

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Maryland Facebook, Twitter, Social Networking, Martin O'Malley, Jobs, Facebook, Justice Department, Social Media, Labor, Richard Blumenthal, Workplace, Maryland Facebook Law, Labor Laws, Job Applications, Maryland, Technology News

WASHINGTON -- In a victory for privacy hawks and worker advocates, Maryland legislators passed a bill Wednesday that would ban employers from asking j...

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Let's Stand With Working People Against the Crony Capitalists and Their Political Lackeys

Allan Brawley | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Crony Capitalism, Wisconsin Recall Elections, Unions, Money in Politics, Occupy Wall Street Movement, Labor Laws, Occupy Wall Street, Labor Movement, Workers Rights, Politics News

Early union struggles need to be remembered and appropriately re-enacted if we are to take the country back from the corporate interests that again control it, their political and judicial allies, and the complicit mainstream media.

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Getting Labor Unions to the Adult Table: Why Labor Organizing Should Be a Civil Right

Dean Baker | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Efca, Progressive Movement, Labor Unions, Labor Laws, Progressives, Business News

There needs to be some change in the rules if workers in the private sector are going to have chance of being able to organize successfully.

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Obama Plan Would Expand Key Worker Protections

AP | SAM HANANEL | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Video, Home Health Care Workers Wages, Home Health Care Workers, Labor Laws, Wage Laws, Elder Care, Home Health Care, Health Care, Minimum Wage Laws, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Workers in the home health care industry – one of the country's fastest growing professions – would be guaranteed minim...

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How Government Fails To Deliver On Worker Safety

iWatch News | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Government Worker Safety, Labor Laws, Safety, Worker Safety, Safety Regulations, US Labor Laws, Business News

Persistent hazards at a top employer underscore regulators' mixed message -- and 'schizophrenic' tactics....

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Opus Dei Followers Accused Of Forcing Disciple To Work Decade Without Pay

AP | MASHA MACPHERSON | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Opus Dei France, Opus Dei, Labor Laws, Opus Dei Labor Laws, Catherine Tissier Opus Dei, Mental Manipulation, Catherine Tissier, Opus Dei Trial, World News

PARIS — Two Opus Dei followers and an association closely linked to the conservative Roman Catholic group went on trial Thursday, accused of for...

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Uncle Sam Doesn't Want You

Steve Fraser | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Arab Spring, 99ers, Unemployment, Great Recession, Labor Laws, Labor History, 99ers Unemployment, Jobs, Knights of Labor, Unions, Great Depression, Working Class, Politics News

We have a choice: Americans can continue to accept large-scale unemployment as "natural" and permanent. Or we can follow the lead of the jobless young in the Arab Spring and of protestors beginning to demonstrate en masse in Europe.

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Voice Labor Settlement: High Drama or Foregone Conclusion?

Michael Sigman | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Union Negotiations, LA Weekly, Village Voice Media, Media Coverage, Village Voice, Village Voice Union Negotiations, Village Voice Media Strike, Village Voice Strike, Labor Rights, Labor Laws, Village Voice Labor Rights, Media News

To state as a fact that a strike was "narrowly averted" has little more meaning than if I told you I narrowly averted missing dinner by consuming a sandwich just two hours before bedtime.

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Union-Busting Tactics More Pervasive Than Thought, Study Shows

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Target Unions, Labor Regulators, Labor Laws, Business News, Anti-Union Campaigns, Union Elections, Ufcw, Organized Labor, National Labor Regulations Board, Unions, Business News

In the last half-century of American organized labor, the deck has rarely been so stacked against workers, say labor historians. When it comes to u...

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A Void: Where's the Triangle Fire Memorial?

Cari Shane | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Labor Laws, Immigrants, Garment Worker, Triangle Fire, Judith Weller, Sweatshops, Statues, New York News

There is no statue to commemorate the senseless deaths of 120 women and 26 men in New York City's famous and tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Fi...

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Tea Party, Labor Spend big in Wisconsin High Court Race

AP | By DINESH RAMDE | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Wisconsin, Court Case, Wisconsin Union Bill, Labor Laws, Scott Walker, Protests, Tea Party, Unions, Wisconsin Protests, Politics News

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Pro-labor organizations and one of the country's largest tea party groups are pouring money into Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court e...

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New Wage Theft Laws Protect Workers

David Callahan | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: National Employment Law Project, Kim Bobo, Minimum Wage, Wage Theft Laws, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Annette Bernhardt, Labor Laws, Washington Wage Theft Law, Interfaith Worker Justice, Overtime, New York Wage Theft Law, Politics News

Cheating workers out of fairly-earned wages is about as low as things get. In most places in America, employers still face few penalties for wage theft allowing the epidemic to continue.

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The Triangle Fire and the Media: 100 Years Later

Catherine Cloutier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Wisconsin, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Labor Laws, Labor History, Scott Walker, Wisconsin Unions, Triangle Shirtwaist 100 Years, Union Movement, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, Worker's Rights, Wisconsin Protests, Media News

The Triangle fire was an influential event in the history of journalism. Publications across the country united in defense of the defenseless as muckrakers advocated for social change.

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The Sponsorship System Is on the Wrong Side of History

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Expatriates, Sponsorship System, Uae, Uae Economy, United Arab Emirates, Labor Laws, Business News

The existing sponsorship system in the UAE breeds complacency and suffocates innovation among nationals who find it an easy way to make income.

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Sensational Cases Expose Conditions Faced by Overseas Workers Throughout Asia

Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Immigrant Rights, Workers, Abuse, Rape, Economics, Labor Law, The Philippines, Immigration, Sexual Abuse, Philippines, China, Migrant-Remittances, Remittances, Labor, Labor Laws, China Labor Law, Vietnam, Undocumented-Immigrants, World News

Each year, inhabitants of the least-developed Asian countries pursue the economic benefits of overseas employment despite the high social cost at home and possibility of injury at the hands of employers abroad.

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Workers' Rights Around The World: Freedom House Report (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom House Report, Trade Unions, Slidepollajax, Employees' Rights, Labor Laws, Freedom House, Workers' Rights, Labor Unions, International Labor Laws, World News

The U.S. has a more restrictive stance towards workers' rights than Western Europe, Canada and even Israel, according to a new report. The report, r...

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Overlooked DC Victory Shows Linking Safety, Labor Rights is Winning Formula

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Employees, Organized Labor, Right to Work, Unions, Labor Laws, Politics News

Two week ago, a major piece of labor law legislation called The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act passed the House with Republican support, and no one heard about it.

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Unpaid Internships Investigated: 'Mostly Drudgery' Means Employers Must Usually Pay, Say Regulators

New York Times | STEVEN GREENHOUSE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cv, Intern, Law, Court, Federal Laws, Labor Law, Human Resources, Paid Internships, Unpaid Internships, Lawsuit, Back Pay, Unpaid Interns, Resume, Internships, Nace, Work Force, Employers, Labor Laws, Colleges, Legality, Clerical Work, Universities, Business News

Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined...

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Colorado Companies Push, But Don't Cross Legal Boundaries By Having Employees

The Denver Post | Miles Moffeit | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Labor Laws, Colorado, Colorado Retail Council, Employment Practices Solutions, Denver News

The feverish legislative agenda to balance the state budget in recent weeks has flushed out more desperate political strategies by private businesses ...

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Overtime: 5 Things You Need to Know

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Charlotte Jensen | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Overtime Rules, Fair Labor Standards Act, Money, Department of Labor, Federal Labor Laws, Overtime Labor Laws, 5 Things You Need to Know, Overtime Pay, Exempt Employee, Labor Laws, Overtime Laws, Wage and Hour, Management, Taxes and Accounting, Small Business News

Are you lost in the labyrinth of regulations pertaining to overtime? You're not alone. Plenty of business owners inadvertently find themselves confuse...

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Park Slope Restaurants Busted For Violations

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brooklyn Restaurant Department Labor, Park Slope, Wages, Labor Laws, Brooklyn, List of Restaurants, Labor Violations, Huffington Post Mr. Wonton, Brooklyn Restaurants, Park Slope Restaurants, New York News

More than 20 restaurants in Brooklyn's tony Park Slope neighborhood have been found to be in violation of labor laws, State Labor Commissioner M. Patr...

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Workers Pay the Price in an Era of Declining Job Quality

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Workforce, Safety Laws, Latinos, Wage Laws, Occupational Fatality Rate, Recession, Competition, Labor Protections, Labor Day, Employers, Labor Laws, Health Insurance, National Council of La Raza, Health Care, U.S. Department of Labor, Business News

When employers violate wage and occupational safety laws, they effectively devalue hard work and workers' lives. It is simply outrageous and unacceptable that a country like ours allows people to work to death.

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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Nation, Grittv, The American Prospect, Employee Free Choice Act, Housing, Truthdig, Racial Equality, Economy, Scandal, Salon, Ubs, Weekly Audit, Net Work, Mortgage, Unemployment, The Media Consortium, Labor Laws, Bank, Zach Carter, Tmc, Politics News

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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