Labor

A discussion with an author of a new report laying out how Uber and Lyft’s preferred worker classification — codified in California's Prop 22 — depresses pay and deprives drivers of benefits.

A new report reveals that nearly half of the 100 largest low-wage employers spent more on stock buybacks than on long-term capital investments over the past five years.

Cleaners contracted to clean utility giant Con Edison’s facilities are paid as little as $16 dollars an hour while the company rakes in billions.

Billions of public dollars are poised to flow to semiconductor manufacturing. Here’s how to ensure the jobs they create are actually good.

The federal tipped “subminimum wage” of $2.13 an hour leaves workers impoverished and exposed to workplace mistreatment.

The outdated five-day workweek is failing today’s workers. Shortening the workweek reprioritizes the well-being of workers, addresses economic inequality, and aligns work with the needs of the modern era.

Short-term concerns about artificial intelligence replacing jobs are overblown, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be aware of how it's already warping workplaces.

Commonsense guardrails are needed to protect taxpayers dollars from wasteful stock buybacks and excessive CEO pay.

A new report reveals that chipmakers in line to receive massive subsidies could’ve given $27,000 annual bonuses to 300,000 employees with the money they blew on buybacks over the past five years.