#labor department

[threefeline]

Haven’t seen anything about this here yet but they’re trying to pass something in March that basically makes companies like Lyft and DoorDash to reclassify their workers from "contractors" to "employees" and idk this is kinda cool. It basically makes them follow six criteria to see wether the worker is an ‘employee’ or a ‘contractor’ whereas Trump’s old rule was only two and it was like super weirdly vaguely worded

The title is a bit inflammatory but the article describes that it’s a pretty big win for the workers so

#just go read it it’s good #I do wonder how it’s gonna impact shit #I’ve seen other articles fearmongering about it but like. pay your workers lmao #us politics #uspol #Biden #trump #labor department #DoorDash #uber eats #Lyft #Uber

[gwydionmisha]

#Biden Administration #Labor Department #Overtime #Worker's Rights #News

[pressnewsagencyllc]

US producer prices rose 2.1% from last year, most since April, but less than forecasters expected

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. producer prices rose rose in March from a year earlier at the fastest pace in nearly a year, but the gain was less than economists expected. And wholesale inflation eased on a month to month basis. The Labor Department said Thursday that its producer price index — which measures inflationary pressure before it reaches consumers — rose 2.1% last month from March 2023 ,…

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#Consumer price inflation #core inflation #Federal Reserve #Labor Department #month to month #producer price #Producer Price Index #producer prices

[narmadanchal]

लोक सेवा केन्द्र कर्मचारी संघ ने कलेक्टर के नाम दिया मांगों का ज्ञापन

इटारसी। लोक सेवा केन्द्र कर्मचारी संघ (Public Service Center Employees Union) ने कलेक्टर को ज्ञापन देकर कर्मचारियों ने अपनी समस्या सुनाई। संघ ने कलेक्टर (Collector), अनुविभागीय अधिकारी, तहसीलदार एवं श्रम विभाग (Labor Department) के नाम ज्ञापन दिया। लोक सेवा केन्द्र कर्मचारी संघ के जिला अध्यक्ष सचिन केवट (Sachin Kevat) एवं प्रदेश कर्मचारी संघ के सह मंत्री उत्तम यादव (Uttam Yadav), भारतीय मजदूर संघ…

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#Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh #collector #Dilip Kahar #Labor Department #Public Service Center Employees Union #Sachin Kevat #Uttam Yadav

[parttimereporter]

PSSI, one of the country's largest cleaning services for food processing companies, started being investigated last summer, the DOL said. 

While searching three meatpacking plants owned by JBS USA and Turkey Valley Farms in Nebraska and Minnesota, department officials found 31 underage workers as young as 13. PSSI's headquarters in Kieler, Wisc., was also searched.

The DOL ultimately found 13 plants in eight states had 102 underage workers – Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas. 

#child labor #labor department #labor laws

[rkopro]

Source is redbubble

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[jkanelis]

POTUS doesn't deserve the pounding

POTUS doesn’t deserve the pounding

The U.S. Labor Department each month gives us a snapshot of where the nation’s economy stands. It comes in the form of its jobs report. What did the Labor stats show us this month? Oh, that private non-farm employers added 428,000 more Americans to their payrolls and that joblessness remains at 3.6%, or at the same level it stood prior to the coronavirus pandemic. Still, and this just baffles…

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#joblessness #Joe Biden #Labor Department

[pressnewsagencyllc]

US labor market still tight; trade seen subtracting from Q1 growth

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits increased to a two-month high last week, though labor market conditions remain fairly tight. The weekly claims report from the Labor Department on Thursday also showed fewer people remaining on jobless rolls towards the end of March, suggesting that laid-off workers continued to find work,…

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#claims data #Initial claims #Labor Department #labor market #Unemployment benefits #unemployment rate

[iww-gnv]

Oct 6 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) must provide U.S. regulators with documents detailing its spending on efforts to discuss unionizing with workers, part of the agency's probe into whether the coffee chain violated financial disclosure laws, a federal judge has ruled. The decision, which the U.S. Labor Department announced on Friday, requires Starbucks to document travel expenses it paid to send former CEO Howard Schultz and other company officers to Buffalo, New York in 2021 after workers there filed a petition to hold a union election. The Labor Department subpoenaed the information as part of its investigation into whether Starbucks should have disclosed expenses related to the trip and bonuses paid to the company officers. Federal law requires employers to report expenses aimed at discouraging organizing and union membership.

#news #starbucks #us news #uspol #us pol #us labor department #unions #union strong

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The company that chartered the cargo ship that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was recently sanctioned by regulators for blocking its employees from directly reporting safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard — in violation of a seaman whistleblower protection law, according to regulatory filings reviewed by The Lever.

Eight months before a Maersk Line Limited-chartered cargo ship crashed into the Baltimore bridge, likely killing six people and injuring others, the Labor Department sanctioned the shipping conglomerate for retaliating against an employee who reported unsafe working conditions aboard a Maersk-operated boat. In its order, the department found that Maersk had “a policy that requires employees to first report their concerns to [Maersk]... prior to reporting it to the [Coast Guard] or other authorities.”

#us politics #news #the lever #Francis Scott Key Bridge #baltimore #Maryland #Maersk #department of labor #2024 #whistleblowers #silencing whistleblowers #sanctions

[kp777]

By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

Aug. 29, 2023

"The evidence presented in Treasury's report challenges the view that worker empowerment holds back economic prosperity," a department economist wrote.

A report released Monday by the U.S. Treasury Department argues that labor unions are critical to combating income inequality, which has risen dramatically in recent decades as union membership has declined and real wages have largely stagnated.

The report estimates that unions boost the wages of their members by between 10% and 15%, an impact that spreads to the broader economy as nonunion workplaces compete for employees.

"Unions also improve fringe benefits and workplace procedures such as retirement plans, workplace grievance policies, and predictable scheduling," the report notes. "These workplace improvements contribute substantially to middle-class financial stability and worker well-being. For example, one study has estimated that the average worker values their ability to avoid short-notice schedule changes at up to 20% of their wages."

In a summary of the report's findings, Treasury Department economist Laura Feiveson wrote that "increased unionization has the potential to contribute to the reversal of the stark increase in inequality seen over the last half-century."

"All in all, the evidence presented in Treasury's report challenges the view that worker empowerment holds back economic prosperity," wrote Feiveson. "In addition to their effect on the economy through more equality, unions can have a positive effect on productivity through employee engagement and union voice effects, providing a roadmap for the type of union campaigns that could lead to additional growth."

The Treasury Department report was released less than a week after UPS Teamsters ratified a five-year contract that includes substantial wage increases, a deal secured after the union threatened a nationwide strike.

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is also looking to win a major pay increase for General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis employees. Last week, 97% of UAW members who participated in the vote opted to authorize a strike if contract talks with the three automakers fail.

Meanwhile, Hollywood writers and actors are still on strike, and others across the country—including nurses, hotel workers, and city employees—have walked off the job in recent weeks to demand better pay, benefits, and conditions.

The wave of strikes followed significant labor victories in 2022, a year in which Starbucks employees organized hundreds of locations across the U.S.—victories that contributed to an increase in the total number of U.S. workers in unions last year.

The union membership rate, however, fell from 10.3% in 2021 to a record-low 10.1% in 2022 as nonunion jobs grew at a faster rate than union jobs.

In a Monday speech outlining her department's findings, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that unions are "critically important to workers' well-being."

"Unionization also has spillover effects," Yellen added. "Competition means workers at nonunionized firms may see increased wages too. Heightened workplace safety norms can pull up whole industries. Benefits also spill over to workers' families and communities."

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#treasury department #janet yellen #unions #unionization #labor unions