Union bosses are a significant financial booster of the Democratic party, sending billions of dollars of union dues to Democratic candidates every campaign cycle.
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The traditional office workplace is dead, and you’ll be surprised to learn why
We now have definitive proof that the traditional Monday-through-Friday, 9-to-5 is over for remote-capable employees.
Updated federal workplace guidelines protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated the federal workplace guidelines after a quarter of a century to protect pronouns, bathrooms and abortion.
Workplace wellbeing programs don’t work; here’s what actually helps
Nobody needs to be reminded that you spend the majority of your waking life at work.
AI is causing massive hiring discrimination based on disability
AI hiring algorithms are riddled with harmful biases. This is a reflection of the real-life hiring data they were trained on, which is heavily biased.
Return-to-office mandates can’t fix stagnant post-COVID worker productivity
More than two-thirds of managers report that they’re under immense pressure to squeeze more out of their workers, according to a recent Slack survey of 18,000 knowledge workers.
New York anti-bias laws cover nonresidents seeking employment, state’s top court rules
New York’s top court ruled Thursday that laws banning workplace discrimination cover people who are applying for jobs in New York but live elsewhere.
Employers who spy on their remote workers do so at their own peril
In the brave new world of hybrid work, where the lines between office and home are blurred, employers are navigating uncharted waters.
Return-to-office mandates will be worse for federal employment than leaders realize
For many months, public sector unions warned about the damaging consequences to federal employee retention and recruitment posed by the federal government’s planned mandate to force staff to return to the office.
Watch out — California’s damaging gig workers law is going nationwide
In 2019, I was a California writer-consultant, reinvention coach and E-RYT 500 yoga instructor and programs lead whose life was upended by the passage of Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law.
Cuomo files suit against James for access to sexual harassment report materials
Former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) filed a lawsuit against the state’s attorney general Thursday over access to a 2021 report on sexual harassment allegations against the then-governor.
Telework is actually rescuing the federal workforce; its abolition won’t be pretty
Under heavy pressure from Republicans in Congress, and from the Democratic mayor of Washington, the Biden administration has been pressing federal agencies to get their staff back into the office.
Big Labor systematically lies to forced dues-paying workers
Throughout last month’s first-ever U.S. House hearing on national right-to-work legislation in the Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP), the dividing line between the panel’s Republican majority and its Democratic minority was very clear.
Starbucks labor report — demanded by shareholders — calls for better training on union issues
Starbucks should better communicate its commitment to workers’ collective bargaining rights and train its employees to respect those rights, according to an independent assessment released Wednesday.
Auto workers’ grand slam in Detroit is a home run for the US workforce
The United Auto Workers union has just hit a grand slam. Instead of the World Series, we’re talking about the turbulent national auto talks between the Detroit Three and the United Auto Workers union.