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The current Federal administration seeks to roll back numerous workplace protections and other rights
August 4th, 2025
The United States Department of Labor plans to repeal or rewrite more than 60 work-related regulations. These essential workplace rules include minimum wage protections for home healthcare workers – who provide vital services, especially as assiste…
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Rather than protecting employees as promised on the campaign trail, the President already has fired tens of thousands of essential workers while attacking employee rights and the rule of law generally
March 3rd, 2025
The Federal administration wasted no time mounting its comprehensive assault against the legal system governing the workplace generally and the core rights and key protections for millions of employees specifically. Since day one for the new Federal…
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Project 2025, prepared by senior members of the past and future Trump administrations, creates roadmap to attack fundamental rights and subvert the rule of law
January 7th, 2025
In nearly 1,000 pages, Project 2025 provides detailed analyses and urges specific actions to impose a comprehensively extreme plan across the nation. As explained in a recent report, implementation of Project 2025 would concentrate unprecedented powe…
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The Supreme Court’s end-of-term majority opinions threaten the rule of law
July 8th, 2024
On the heels of the majority opinion issued by the Supreme Court in Starbucks v. McKinney, analyzed here, the majority opinion given by the Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo declared that Federal courts can no longer defer to the…
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Supreme Court seeks to curb longstanding and vital authority of enforcement agencies
June 27th, 2024
Consistent with rhetoric used by the prior Federal administration and its allies in Congress, a majority of the Supreme Court appears interested in limiting law enforcement agencies’ effectiveness as the investigative and prosecutorial missions of…
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DOL targets gig economy abuses
January 15th, 2024
The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently announced the adoption of an administrative rule that better addresses the escalating problem of employee misclassification. In particular, companies increasingly misclassify employees as ind…
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Rampant child labor violations associated with prominent corporations underscore the need for coordinated enforcement
December 22nd, 2023
The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) is currently investigating approximately 700 child labor cases around the country. In one such case, the DOL found that the corporation under investigation employed over 100 children across nearly 10…
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Employers increasingly using stay-or-pay “contracts” that facilitate exploitation
November 27th, 2023
Since the declaration of the global pandemic in 2020, awareness about fundamental disparities in the labor market between employers and employees has grown significantly. Consequently, and as an example, States like Minnesota have outlawed non-compet…
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DOL seeks to expand the right to overtime pay significantly
September 5th, 2023
On the eve of the Labor Day weekend, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule that – if adopted – will dramatically increase the number of people who have the right to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLS…
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Minneapolis joins other visionary cities to combat gig economy exploitation
August 21st, 2023
The Minneapolis City Council recently adopted an ordinance that requires increased pay and other protections for rideshare drivers who work for Uber, Lyft, and similar gig economy businesses. To that end, the ordinance compels rideshare companies to…
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