WSNYC Blog: The Latest in Employment Law

Last summer, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill aimed at removing barriers preventing employees from suing over workplace sexual misconduct. The bill, titled Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (S. 2342), was introduced with bipartisan support and is seen as a legal extension of the #MeToo movement. The bill currently has backing from 10 Republican senators and has a good chance of attaining the 60 votes it needs to advance in the chamber.

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Plenty of us have difficult bosses. But not many of us have bosses who will dump 500 pounds of pennies in front of our homes. Andreas Flaten, a former employee at an auto repair shop in Georgia owned by Miles Walker, contacted the US Department of Labor after he never received his final paycheck. Flaten had quit his job after getting into an argument with Walker, his boss. Flaten told the DOL he was owed $915. When the DOL contacted Walker

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In December 2020, Amazon Flex driver Drickey Jackson filed a complaint against Amazon accusing the company of invasion of privacy under the California Constitution and violation of the federal Wiretap Act. The lawsuit seeks to include any Flex drivers whose social media activity was monitored in a manner similar to Jackson’s. The complaint alleges that the e-commerce giant used an “Orwellian-sounding” and “sophisticated and secret program” to monitor closed Facebook groups managed by Flex drivers. In these groups, drivers would

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Matco Tools allegedly misclassified distributors of their products as independent contractors. An independent contractor is a self-employed individual or contracted entity that provides a service to another entity as a nonemployee. As such, Matco Tools did not have to provide employee benefits; which resulted in allegedly denying the distributor’s overtime pay, timely wages upon termination, meal breaks, rest breaks, reimbursement for business expenses, and accurate wage statements. John Fleming worked as a distributor for Matco Tools from 2012 to 2018.

According to an article published on Business Insider, Google is currently undergoing an investigation by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) for alleged harassment and discrimination against Black female workers. The DFEH interviewed several Black women previously employed at Google’s parent firm, Alphabet. While Google has responded to the allegations expressing their efforts to build an inclusive workplace, this is not the first time that Google has been accused of mistreating its workers. This time last year,

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