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Blog Home Care Workers Won the Right to Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay—the Trump Administration Wants to Take it Away
Press Clips Business Insider: Noncompete clauses ‘chill’ worker rights and are usually illegal, NLRB lawyer says Companies that force workers to sign “noncompete” clauses are likely breaking the law, top NLRB lawyer says. May 30, 2023
News Release NELP Urges Caution on Portable Benefits Pilot Program Legislation Portable benefits programs must promote worker mobility and strengthen economic security and not weaken existing labor rights and protections. May 25, 2023
Press Clips Labor Notes: Organizing Despite the Churn Despite the churn, at Amazon and other workplaces, unions are developing strategies to organize high-turnover workplaces. May 22, 2023
Press Clips The Orange County Register: Why California’s COVID unemployment mess isn’t over yet California’s COVID unemployment mess isn’t over yet. May 16, 2023
News Release April Jobs Report: Job Growth Slows Just as Black Workers See More Gains It is an affront to workers that the Federal Reserve has chosen to continue raising interest rates, threatening to undercut these hard-won employment gains. May 5, 2023
Blog New Jersey’s Temp Workers Win! Temp workers need more protections and temp agencies need to be regulated. May 1, 2023
Press Clips News Tribune: COVID created an expanded social safety net; activists are now quietly working to bring it back Emergency paid sick and family leave, modernizing and expanding unemployment insurance rescued families and the U.S. economy. April 11, 2023
News Release March Jobs Report: Many Jobless Workers Excluded from Unemployment Insurance It’s critical that policymakers act to support the millions of jobless workers who are shut out of the unemployment insurance system. April 7, 2023
Press Clips HR Dive: California bill would ban most criminal background checks As of 2021, 37 states and more than 150 cities and counties have adopted ban-the-box laws. April 4, 2023
Blog Hustling Against Criminalization and Its Employment Black women, Black femmes, and Black queers in New Orleans hustle as a culture of resistance. April 3, 2023
