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Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPBSome of the first workers to lose jobs in the pandemic are losing them again in the “freeze.” As new business restrictions kicked in statewide this week, some workers and business owners experienced a gut-punching déjà vu. -
Employees' ability to work from home could transform small metro areas and change where Americans choose to live.
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Women hold the majority of jobs in clothing and department stores, gift and souvenir shops. They run cash registers everywhere. Now thousands of stores have shuttered, leaving them jobless.
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Labor groups that spent $20 million against Prop. 22 are warning that the measure cements gig workers as a “second class” of workers and mulling limited options to challenge it.
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Since more people are working from home, they're using the opportunity to migrate to other places. Big cities are seeing the biggest outflows, according to new surveys.
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Court documents suggest far more people are in a ‘type of adjudication’ than was previously acknowledged.
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Women have made great strides. But the uncomfortable truth is that in their homes, they are still fitting into stereotypical roles of doing the bulk of housework and parenting.
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Gig companies embark on a last-minute spending blitz after a court rules that drivers should be paid as employees and labor groups question campaign tactics.
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The agency faces a class action lawsuit over lengthy delays in delivering unemployment benefits
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The ruling is a blow to Uber and Lyft, which have argued they are not subject to state labor law. But the court's order could still be upended by a ballot measure backed by the ride-hailing companies.
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As early voting begins this week, the most expensive state ballot measure in modern history has widened the fault lines in the battle over the future of work.
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A plan to reform the state’s recycling system requires packaging producers to help pay for changes.
