Category: Worker Rights

By now you’ve probably heard about the Wells Fargo scandal, where the bank relentlessly pressured its employees to open new customer accounts, resulting in…

Having a job you don’t like is more than just a drag: it might also be compromising your health. Dissatisfaction with your job in…

Good news for American workers: new federal overtime rules are going into effect at the end of the year. Back in 2014, President Obama…

In a widely-circulated article this summer, Jynne Dilling made a radical proposition to American workers who take fewer and fewer vacation days, and feel…

In a recent NYT article about work meetings, contributor Virginia Heffernan describes the only meeting ever led by Octavian Costache, the chief technology officer…

For bosses who want to spy on employees at work, it’s never been easier – or more commonplace – than it is today. But…

As business writer Jo Confino recently argued, having a meaningful job doesn’t automatically translate into personal happiness. In fact, the truth often works the…

The bill requires contracts for projects and payment within 30 days of completion. When it comes to a timely paycheck, freelancing sucks. Freelance workers…

Every institution needs rules. But companies don’t need to be shortsighted and lazy in their efforts to maintain and ordered, functioning workplace. Most of…