The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge against Minnesota's ban on captive audience meetings.

What does current federal law say about overtime pay? The overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provide protections to most hourly workers and many low-salaried workers, guarantee...

What does current federal law say about unemployment insurance? Established in the wake of the Great Depression through the Social Security Act of 1935, unemployment insurance (UI) is a critical safet...

What does current federal law say about child labor? The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets guidelines for the hours and nonhazardous jobs for which employers can hire minors under 16. The FLSA...

What does current federal law say about wage payment? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)—which establishes wage and hour standards that apply to most workers at private businesses with annual revenue...

What does current federal law say about workplace nondiscrimination protections? Discrimination in the workplace—either in employment, promotion, job assignments, pay, benefits, discipline, discharge,...

What does current federal law say about workplace health and safety?  The federal Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act—passed in 1970 after decades of fierce advocacy by organized labor and its al...

What does current federal law say about overtime pay? The overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provide protections to most hourly workers and many low-salaried workers, guarantee...

The America’s Work Force Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Jennifer Sherer of the EPI joined us on today’s show.

Deadly violence not random as staff have endured ‘months of mistreatment, neglect and vilification’, says union

Yesterday, Trump announced that he will nominate E.J. Antoni as the next commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Antoni has repeatedly and unfairly attacked the agency he’d be set to run...

State action to strengthen worker rights and protections has become critically important at a moment when long-standing U.S. labor standards are under acute threat. Escalating threats include Trump ad...

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Today, Trump directed his team to fire the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he didn’t like the jobs numbers they released. This is a move straight out of an autocratic play...

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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Statement from Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham and Secretary-Treasurer Brad Lehto in response to today’s political violence:“On behalf of Minnesota’s Labor Movement, we are heartbroken at

After multiple attempts in recent years, farmworkers will now have the right to state minimum wage like most other employees in Maine.

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…

Labor advocates scored a win on Monday after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a new law to extend unemployment benefits to striking workers in Washington.

Summary: An anti-union Colorado law, passed in 1943 amid intense big business and white supremacist campaigns to block worker organizing, has suppressed unionization in the state.  Resulting low ...

Mahdawi was at a naturalization interview in Vermont when he was taken in move his lawyers say is ‘retaliation’

The Iowa Republican was pressed on President Trump’s policies, including the case of a Salvadoran immigrant who his administration has admitted it mistakenly sent to a prison in El Salvador.

Proponents claim that adding more work requirements for programs like food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid will lead to higher levels of employment among low-income adults. But EPI’s research shows that th...