Five top women soccer stars from the U.S. Women’s National Soccer team are alleging pay discrimination by the U.S. Soccer Federation, the governing body for the sport in America. Numbers recently uncovered by the New York Daily News have shown the huge difference in compensation given to the U..S. men’s and women’s soccer teams. Team...
Fixing the Pay Gap for Women and Minorities
A study was published by the Newspaper Guild-affiliated Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, the union that represents newsroom employees, concerning the disparity of pay between men, women and minorities. Soon after, in a memo to staff at the Wall Street Journal, Will Lewis, chief executive of the newspaper’s parent company, Dow Jones & Company,...
Tyson Foods Class-Action Lawsuit
Recently, in a 6-2 opinion, the Supreme Court sided with thousands of workers at a Tyson Foods Iowa Park processing plant in order to recover overtime pay. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said that the plaintiffs were entitled to rely on statistics to prove their case. The Tyson workers were seeking to...
Misclassification of Workers
The Department of Labor (DOL), Wage and Hour Division, continue to enforce the rules concerning the misclassification of workers in many different industries. Businesses continuously outsource activities in order to boost their bottom lines. Subcontractors fall under the outsourcing category which oftentimes causes the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. This merely causes workers to...
Wage Gap and Black Women
It has been a memorable Black History month, with Chris Rock hosting a controversial Academy Award Ceremony and Beyonce’s Superbowl performance of Formation- referencing police brutality. Now, as Black History Month comes to an end and Women’s History Month begins, it is a good time to discuss the challenges that we still face concerning Black...