There has been a major shift in the use of mandatory arbitration contracts by businesses of all sizes following a series of arbitration-friendly U.S. Supreme Court decisions over the last two decades. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 53% of nonunion private-sector employers have mandatory arbitration procedures.
Courthouse News Service
January 13, 2020
Daily Kos
January 13, 2020
- Labor Department replaces Obama-era ‘joint employer’ standard
The Labor Department on Sunday issued a final rule narrowing an Obama-administration policy on when a worker can be considered to be employed by more than one company. The Obama administration policy increased the number of businesses that were made legally liable for contractors or franchisees that failed to pay overtime, minimum wages, or meet other obligations. Franchisors said that resulted in a surge of lawsuits against them. The Trump administration rule sets four tests to determine whether a company is a “joint employer,” including whether it can hire or fire employees, or sets their pay. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia said the rule helps “address regulations that hinder the American economy.” The pro-labor Economic Policy Institute said the policy gives companies incentive to outsource jobs to dodge responsibility. [The Associated Press]
The Week
January 13, 2020
The Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor group, has argued that the new rule “dramatically narrows” the likelihood that a company can be considered liable for overtime or minimum wage violations. It provides an incentive for companies to outsource more jobs and avoid that responsibility, the EPI said.
Chicago Tribune
January 13, 2020
- Economic Policy Institute, June 1998:
- “In the model presented in this paper, it is assumed that in the first year after implementing a universal, single-payer plan, total national health expenditures are unchanged from baseline. If expenditures were higher than baseline in the first few years, then additional revenues above those described here would be needed. However, these higher costs would be more than offset by savings which would accrue within the first decade of the program.”
Daily Kos
January 13, 2020
Despite blacks having much higher poverty rates – 61.7 percent compared to the white poverty rate of 10.7 percent – black parents in Portland are better at sending children to school. The absenteeism rate for black children in Portland was 10.7 percent compared to 14.5 percent for the white population in Portland. Nationally, the Economic Policy Institute reports that 23 percent of black students missed three or more days of school in the previous month compared to 18.3 percent of white students.
Central Maine
January 13, 2020
That’s in large part because women play an outsized hand in education and health services, filling more than three-quarters of those roles. Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute notes that construction and manufacturing companies added 356,000 jobs over the last two years. But education and health added more than 600,000 jobs over that period.
AP News
January 13, 2020
That’s in large part because women play an outsized hand in education and health services, filling more than three-quarters of those roles. Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute notes that construction and manufacturing companies added 356,000 jobs over the last two years. But education and health added more than 600,000 jobs over that period.
Politico
January 13, 2020