If you’ve ever been in a fast food kitchen, you know that they’re hot. The air surrounding heat lamps, stove tops, open ovens, and fryers swirls together like a thick soup, often making it hard…
California’s FAST Recovery Act: Wage Increases
Workers and Corporations Have Competing Interests Corporations don’t have an incentive to increase wages beyond the minimum that it takes for an employee to stay with the company and keep producing profit. Instead, they prefer…
Tipped Worked in Today’s World
Written by Cecil Mattson, 2L of Texas A&M University School of Law A Very Brief History of Tipping Tipping originated in European aristocratic culture, where wealthy guests would slip money to their host’s servants, presumably…
Tracking Your Employment Rights as a Domino’s Driver
Order Placed: Justin Oakley worked for Domino’s for two years, driving a semi truck to fulfill Domino’s stores’ supply orders. At the start of each workday, he’d arrive at a Supply Chain Center in Kent, Ohio,…
States Further Protections Against Discrimination, Wage Violations
The states of Minnesota, New York, Maine have enacted legislation in late 2019 that is a major step forward to further protect employees subject to discrimination and wage violations. Continue Reading States Further Protections Against Discrimination, Wage Violations