Topic of the Week
Forced Arbitration: Be Prepared
No employee is legally required to sign an arbitration agreement. However, employers often condition valuable benefits - such as getting or keeping a job - on your "agreement" to submit claims to arbitration which otherwise could have been presented to th
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Blog of the Week
For Big Corporations Like Walmart, Wage Theft Penalties Are Just the Price of Doing Business
A scathing new report finds that hundreds of major corporations in the United States are repeat wage-theft offenders—committing the violations and then paying the subsequent fines as part of the cost of doing business.
Thought for the Week
"When disputes arise over pay, working conditions, or whatever else, workers must now face off against their employers one-on-one. If that sounds like an unfair fight, it is."
–Alan Blinder, economist, discussing recent SCOTUS decision permitting class action waivers in employment arbitration agreements
List of the Week
from Workplace Fairness
Top Five Discrimination Searches This Week:
- Sex/Gender discrimination
- Relgious discrimination
- Proving discrimination
- Language discrimination
- Pregnancy discrimination
Top Five News Headlines
- Starbucks Discriminates Against Older Workers, According To Former Employees
- Trump’s attacks on federal employee unions, pay and benefits draw bipartisan rebukes
- Spurred by #MeToo, a Harassment Task Force Reconvenes
- The Supreme Court case that could kneecap public sector unions, explained
- Cheesecake Factory held liable in $4M wage theft case
