If work for companies like Uber and Lyft once carried some appeal for offering flexibility, the kind of labor it has come to represent is now used by some as shorthand for a raw deal.
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She Said Her Professor Sexually Harassed Her. His Wife Won Damages.
A case involving a graduate student and her art history professor illustrates the tangled state of sexual power dynamics in Japan.
She Said Equinox Fired Her for Being a Black Woman. A Jury Agreed.
The high-end gym franchise was ordered to pay Röbynn Europe, a former employee, damages of $11.25 million.
A Hiring Law Blazes a Path for A.I. Regulation
New York City’s pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in work force decisions.
What If Instead of Trying to Manage Your Time, You Set It Free?
We all understand, rationally anyway, that time never stops, moves in only one direction, is owned by no one and is impossible to make more of.
Working From Home and Realizing What Matters
The U.S. economy has experienced a remarkable recovery from the Covid recession of 2020.
A.I.’s Threat to Jobs Prompts Question of Who Protects Workers
Tens of millions of jobs could be automated by generative artificial intelligence. The makers of new technologies are looking to the government to step in.
Companies Are Taking a Harder Line on Union Organizers, Workers Say
Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and REI are accused of targeting union supporters after organizing efforts gained traction, charges the companies deny.
Minnesota Passes Bill Seeking to Ensure Minimum Wage for Gig Workers
Lyft and Uber have opposed the legislation, threatening to reduce operations or leave the state if it is enacted.
A Movement to Make Workplaces ‘Menopause Friendly’
What is a menopause-friendly workplace? Women in cities like New York may soon find out, as U.S. companies adopt practices that were already spreading in Britain.
Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute.
Elon Musk says we should all get off our duffs and go back to the office. People who want to work from home aren’t just “phoning it in” from “some remote pseudo-office” as he’s put it in the past. Now he says we’re immoral, too.
Unions Accuse UPMC of Wielding Market Power Against Workers
A coalition of unions has filed an antitrust complaint with the Justice Department, accusing the Pennsylvania hospital system of suppressing wages and worsening working conditions.
The Increasingly Absurd Illogic of Workplace Drug Tests
The email from my new job was not the welcome I was anticipating.
Strippers and California Club Reach Accord on Union After Long Fight
The club agreed not to block the dancers from affiliating with Actors’ Equity, a move that would be the industry’s first unionization since the 1990s.
Flush With Federal Money, Strings Attached, a Deep South Factory Votes to Unionize
Friday’s victory by the United Steelworkers at a factory building electric school buses was a test for Democratic hopes that clean-energy funding from Washington could bolster organized labor.
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