November 5, 2024
Grindr Inc. illegally imposed a return-to-office policy last year that forced out half its staff in an attempt to thwart a unionization push, the US labor board alleged in a new complaint. The US National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel …
August 23, 2024
Amazon.com Inc. was legally the boss of a group of subcontracted delivery drivers, US labor board prosecutors have concluded, rejecting the company’s claims that workers in its sprawling delivery network aren’t its employees. The general counsel office of the US …
June 19, 2024
California’s largest business and labor groups agreed to change a landmark law that has helped workers sue companies such as Walmart Inc., Uber Technologies Inc. and Google for workplace violations. The deal caps years of efforts by the state’s employers …
June 13, 2024
For two decades, a California law has helped workers sue the world’s biggest companies. Drivers for Uber Technologies Inc. won a $20 million settlement, Google employees secured $27 million over complaints of free-speech violations, and Walmart Inc. agreed to pay …
March 5, 2024
SpaceX’s bid to keep its lawsuit against the US National Labor Relations Board in Texas was denied by a federal appeals court, a setback for Elon Musk’s aerospace company in its battle against the agency. The aerospace company sued the …
February 6, 2024
Executives at Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated against women, joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, seven former employees allege in California civil rights complaints viewed by Bloomberg. The California-based workers, who were fired in 2022 after circulating …
February 6, 2024
Executives at Elon Musk’s SpaceX discriminated against women, joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, seven former employees allege in California civil rights complaints viewed by Bloomberg. The California-based workers, who were fired in 2022 after circulating …
January 30, 2024
Grocery chain Trader Joe’s is joining Elon Musk’s SpaceX in arguing that the US labor board, which is prosecuting cases against both companies, is unconstitutional. At a Jan. 16 National Labor Relations Board hearing in Connecticut, an attorney for Trader …
December 11, 2023
Microsoft Corp. has agreed to union contract language governing its use of artificial intelligence, creating an avenue for workers to challenge how it deploys the evolving technology. As part of negotiations with the Communications Workers of America – the first …
December 11, 2023
Starbucks Corp. said it reached out to the union representing hundreds of its stores to try to end an impasse over contract talks, a conflict that has frayed the coffee giant’s relationship with some of its frontline employees. The chain …