A federal district judge in Washington, DC, just handed the Trump administration, and conservatives in general, another legal defeat, this time over the president’s attempts to limit federal workers’ rights.
Amid increasing scrutiny of Amazon’s treatment of its fulfillment center workers—including an April report which alleged that workers are sometimes forced to pee in bottles rather than take bathroom breaks—it seems the company has decided to go on the offense. Over the last two weeks, at least 16 new Twitter…
Retail colossus Walmart just patented a new technology meant to monitor employee productivity via audio surveillance of checkout counters. The technology, which Walmart calls “listening to the frontend,” aims to increase employee efficiency by using sensors to monitor sounds that can indicate how long lines are, how…
509 days into the Trump administration, virtually every joke about President Donald Trump hiring “the best people” has been exhausted. A Brookings analysis in January found that 34 percent of White House senior staffers had either left or switched roles in the administration’s first year—compared to 9 precent in…
As the Fight for $15 movement has escalated over the past few years, winning higher minimum wage laws across the country, the most common criticism on the right has been that such policies will lead to job loss. After San Francisco raised its minimum wage, people freaked out about lost jobs. After Seattle raised its…
How can one of the most reviled men in West Virginia be competitive in the GOP primary race for a Senate seat? Politico took on the question Monday in its profile of disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship, who’s throwing money into a me-against-the-world campaign that’s leaving national Republicans shocked—shocked—at…
Over the past few months, the Department of Labor has been pushing a rule that would rescind longstanding regulations that make it harder for employers to take tips from their workers. On Wednesday, Bloomberg Law reported that Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta went over the head of the White House Office of Information…
