Xplore Lakeside in Hot Springs Village lets its teen workers do their homework for an hour before their shifts start to encourage them to stay.

The owner of Mikuni Restaurant Group told KCRA his attempts to find new staff have been unsuccessful, leading to temporary closures every Monday.

A crippling labor shortage, coupled with pandemic working conditions, has restaurant workers mentally and physically exhausted.

Gig companies deployed Maya Angelou and racial justice rhetoric to pass Prop 22. But the law is just recycled racism, a gig economy expert argues.

Passengers are finally returning, but drivers are waiting for better pay among other things. Some are deciding whether they're coming back at all.

Bonuses in the white-dominated finance industry have grown by more than 1,200% since 1985, while the federal minimum wage barely doubled.

The major shift from Uber comes after it initially downplayed the court's unanimous ruling that it acts as an employer, not simply a tech platform.

California's labor commissioner said Amazon and a contract delivery company underpaid more than 700 drivers who worked 11-hour days to meet quotas.

Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit that accuses the company of illegally discriminating against workers of colour and immigrants by failing to provide PPE and implement COVID-19 safety measures. According to the complaint, Amazon “subjected these minority workers to health threats to which Amazon did not subject its primarily […]

California’s labour commissioner announced Wednesday that her office is suing Uber and Lyft, claiming the companies are stealing wages from drivers by “wilfully misclassifying” them as contractors instead of employees. The suit alleges that Uber and Lyft have failed to pay drivers minimum wage, sick pay, unemployment, and other benefits […]

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An Amazon worker in Minnesota has accused the company of retaliating against her for speaking out about inadequate safety measures during the pandemic, Bloomberg reported Friday. In a letter to the state’s attorney general, Hibaq Mohamed said Amazon managers have reprimanded her for being “off task” while she was cleaning […]

Amazon is starting to screen some warehouse employees for COVID-19 symptoms when they come into work, CNBC reported Thursday. The company told employees in at least two states, Michigan and Virginia, that it would be “introducing a symptom screen” and sending people home who show signs of the coronavirus, according […]

Massachusetts has filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft accusing the companies of misclassifying drivers as contractors and denying them benefits and workplace protections. “Uber and Lyft have built their billion-dollar businesses while denying their drivers basic employee protections and benefits for years,” Attorney General Maura Healey said in a […]

California’s Public Utilities Commission said in an order Tuesday that Uber and Lyft drivers are “presumed to be employees” under AB-5, the state’s new gig work law. The agency, which oversees ride-hailing companies, said they must now comply with existing regulations related to employees. The ruling is a significant defeat […]

At least 11 local news outlets ran nearly identical segments praising Amazon’s health and safety efforts during the pandemic, as first reported by Courier. However, all but one failed to tell viewers that the content was provided and produced by an Amazon spokesperson, according to Courier. Amazon told Business Insider […]

Amazon may have violated New York’s whistleblower law by firing a worker involved in a protest over workplace safety, the state’s attorney general said in a letter to the company,NPR reported Monday. The AG’s letter said its initial findings suggested Amazon fired the worker to “silence his complaints and send […]