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  1. Agricultural workers in Fresno often face unsafe work conditions that go unreported due to fear and lack of enforcement. Learn about transportation safety, pesticide exposure protections, heat illness rules, and legal remedies available to workers.

    Read the full article: justiceshieldlaw.com/protectin

    #Fresno #AgriculturalWorkers #WorkplaceSafety #EmploymentRights #LaborLaw #JusticeShieldLaw

  2. ๐Ÿšจ Attention Port of Long Beach workers! ๐Ÿšจ Did you know that break rights vary significantly based on your classification? Union longshore workers enjoy strong protections, while non-union truckers often face violations due to misclassification. Know your rights, document any issues, and seek legal help if needed. Remember, retaliation for reporting is illegal!

    #LongBeach #WorkerRights #UnionStrong #LaborLaw #BreakRights

    Visit our website to read the full article.

  3. ๐Ÿšจ Attention Port of Long Beach workers! ๐Ÿšจ Did you know that break rights vary significantly based on your classification? Union longshore workers enjoy strong protections, while non-union truckers often face violations due to misclassification. Know your rights, document any issues, and seek legal help if needed. Remember, retaliation for reporting is illegal!

    #LongBeach #WorkerRights #UnionStrong #LaborLaw #BreakRights

    Visit our website to read the full article.

  4. ๐Ÿšจ Attention Port of Long Beach workers! ๐Ÿšจ Did you know that break rights vary significantly based on your classification? Union longshore workers enjoy strong protections, while non-union truckers often face violations due to misclassification. Know your rights, document any issues, and seek legal help if needed. Remember, retaliation for reporting is illegal!

    #LongBeach #WorkerRights #UnionStrong #LaborLaw #BreakRights

    Visit our website to read the full article.

  5. ๐Ÿšจ Attention Port of Long Beach workers! ๐Ÿšจ Did you know that break rights vary significantly based on your classification? Union longshore workers enjoy strong protections, while non-union truckers often face violations due to misclassification. Know your rights, document any issues, and seek legal help if needed. Remember, retaliation for reporting is illegal!

    #LongBeach #WorkerRights #UnionStrong #LaborLaw #BreakRights

    Visit our website to read the full article.

  6. ๐Ÿšจ Attention Port of Long Beach workers! ๐Ÿšจ Did you know that break rights vary significantly based on your classification? Union longshore workers enjoy strong protections, while non-union truckers often face violations due to misclassification. Know your rights, document any issues, and seek legal help if needed. Remember, retaliation for reporting is illegal!

    #LongBeach #WorkerRights #UnionStrong #LaborLaw #BreakRights

    Visit our website to read the full article.

  7. California employees: "at-will" employment does not give your employer unlimited authority to fire you.

    Under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), employers cannot terminate workers based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, age (40+), disability, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status, or military/veteran status.

    #WrongfulTermination #CaliforniaLaw #FEHA #EmployeeRights #WorkplaceRights #KnowYourRights #LaborLaw

  8. Retail wrongful termination often builds quietly through retaliation.

    Changes in schedule, performance reviews, or hours after protected actions can signal legal violations.

    Strong documentation is key to protecting your rights.

    #WrongfulTermination #LaborLaw #EmployeeRights #RetailWorkers #WorkplaceDiscrimination

  9. A common misconception among California workers: if you're being denied overtime or meal breaks, it must mean you've been misclassified as an independent contractor.

    Under California law, that's not necessarily true. The ABC test โ€” established by the California Supreme Court and codified under AB5 โ€” determines your actual classification regardless of what any contract says.

    #CaliforniaLaborLaw #WageAndHour #ABCTest #AB5 #EmployeeRights #WageTheft #LaborLaw #EntertainmentIndustry

  10. Major studios face legal accountability for pay discrimination. Disney's $43M settlement requires 3 years of external pay equity audits, transparent salary bands, and ongoing monitoring. Warner Bros. faces allegations of unpaid on-call time and overtime violations. California workers are protected by strong equal pay laws that prohibit wage disparities based on gender, race, or ethnicity. #PayEquity #WorkersRights #LaborLaw #EmploymentJustice

  11. ๐Ÿšจ At-will employment doesn't strip away your wage protections. California workers have the right to fair pay, overtime compensation, and protection from retaliation under Labor Code Section 98.6. If your employer threatens your job for reporting wage violations, that's illegal. #WorkersRights #WageTheft #LaborLaw #CaliforniaEmployment

  12. ๐Ÿšจ At-will employment doesn't strip away your wage protections. California workers have the right to fair pay, overtime compensation, and protection from retaliation under Labor Code Section 98.6. If your employer threatens your job for reporting wage violations, that's illegal. #WorkersRights #WageTheft #LaborLaw #CaliforniaEmployment

  13. As previously reported, the #EEOC even moved to dismiss its own active lawsuits against companies that had been credibly accused of discriminating against #trans & #nonbinary workers. Seawrightโ€™s complaint says that the EEOCโ€™s internal non-discrimination & inclusion policy regarding gender identity & sexual orientation, which has existed since at least 2009, was also rescinded by Lucas.

    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ #discrimination

  14. โ€œThe conditions of my employment have continued to deteriorate & I expect they will become worse as Acting Chair Lucas takes further steps to discriminate against #transgender employees,โ€ his complaint said.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere at the agency, #EEOC staff were instructed to stop processing complaints from workers alleging #LBGTQ+ #discrimination.

    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights

  15. Seawrightโ€™s complaint is not only about what he was instructed to do at work, but also about what he was prevented from doing amid the #EEOCโ€™s efforts to โ€œmarginalize me & my role.โ€ Among other things, he says he was booted from network systems he needed to do his job & left off meeting invitations about initiatives he was supposed to be leading.

    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ #discrimination

  16. The same month, #EEOC staff were instructed that any recognition of #transgender & #nonbinary people needed to be โ€œsystematically erasedโ€ in both the EEOCโ€™s internal & external materials, Seawright explained in a formal complaint against the agency in March, before his resignation.

    โ€œWhat made it more disturbing,โ€ he wrote, โ€œwas my forced involvement in making it happen.โ€

    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights #LGBTQ #discrimination

  17. Seawright, who identifies as a queer trans man, has also served as an employee-elected board leader of the agencyโ€™s #LGBTQ+ employee resource group; that is, until the #Trump adminnโ€™s newly appointed #EEOC chair, Andrea Lucas, disbanded it in January.

    #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights

  18. Before his resignation, the information technology specialist had spent the last 8 years working on projects that enabled the #EEOC to carry out its core mission: preventing & fighting workplace #discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy status, disability, & genetic informationโ€ฆ.

    #law #LaborLaw #CivilRights

  19. Under #Trump, Federal #Workplace Anti-Discrimination Agency Engaged inโ€ฆWorkplace #Discrimination

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (#EEOC) was established by the 1964 #CivilRights Act to enforce anti-discrimination laws in workplaces across the country. But under Trump, the federal agency tasked with helping workers who experienced hostile work environments became a hostile work environment itself, acc/to one judgeโ€™s recent ruling.

    #law #LaborLaw #LGBTQ
    motherjones.com/politics/2025/

  20. I think I agree with almost every proposal stated in this text:

    "With regards to information, the challenge is to design intellectual property laws that restrict the right of private parties with proprietary knowledge to extort the rest of society and stifle innovation in the process. This means shortening the life of patents and increasing the requirements for awarding one. At least in certain critical fields of knowledge production, such as life-saving medicine, a strong case can even be made for scrapping patents altogether in favor of a fixed number of payments to inventors of new drugs and treatments. Financing open-source platforms, coding languages, and hardware is another avenue for democratizing control over information.

    Under the umbrella of predistribution, we can also place policies that significantly affect the broader economic environment. Antitrust laws are one example. By aggressively curtailing anticompetitive practices, regulators prevent the dominant firms in any given sector from calcifying their power on the market over sellers and buyers alike.

    Another example of a predistributive policy is the much-debated national job guarantee. Such a policy would force the private sector to contract on terms that are at least as desirable as those found outside of it โ€” or face a drying up of applicants.

    Now, it is not my intent to offer a full-throated defense of these policies, some of which recommend themselves better than others. My aim is rather to draw attention to the thread that is common to all of them. By recognizing that the market rewards relative scarcity, predistribution acts to shift the power that accrues to asset holders in societies characterized by highly unequal ownership."

    jacobin.com/2025/10/left-inequ

    #Predistribution #LaborLaw #JobGuarantee #Redistribution #PoliticalEonomy #Inequality

  21. #DOJPride, an #LGBTQ employee resource group at the #DOJ, shut down in late Jan, <10 days after #Trump signed an EO seeking to root out all #DEI measures from the federal govt.

    โ€œIn this time of uncertainty & concern, we have taken the extraordinary measure of ceasing operations of DOJ Pride,โ€ DOJ Pride's board wrote in an email sent to members at the time. โ€œWe have made this decision in the interest & for the protection of all members.โ€

    #law #LaborLaw #discrimination #Nazis

  22. When #Trump was weeks away from inauguration in January, #FBI agents & #DOJ prosecutors were warning one another to be careful about displaying information revealing their own #SexualOrientation or support for #LGBTQRights. After the inauguration, one person said, FBI agents warned colleagues that they heard new pro-Trump appointees installed at the FBI were combing through internal employee files to find lists that identified employees as #LGBTQ.

    #law #LaborLaw #discrimination #Nazis

  23. The agent trainee, who had most recently been assigned to the #FBI Academy in #Quantico, won an Attorney Generalโ€™s #Award in 2022 in recognition of his work, according to a #DOJ news release.

    News of the traineeโ€™s firing spurred some agents in the FBIโ€™s Washington field office to scour their work stations & social media accounts for signs or commentsโ€”anything that could be viewed as offensive to #Trump, his top appointees & #MAGAโ€ฆ.

    #law #LaborLaw #discrimination #LGBTQ

  24. #KashPatel fires #FBI agent trainee for displaying #GayPride flag

    The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the govt #shutdown as #Trump threatened more terminations.

    The trainee, who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letterโ€”dated Oct 1 & signed by Patelโ€”claiming he had displayed an improper โ€œpoliticalโ€ message in the workplace during his assignment in California under President Bidenโ€ฆ.

    #law #LaborLaw #discrimination #LGBTQ
    msnbc.com/msnbc/news/kash-pate

  25. Just in: The NLRB has apparently had a change of heart, dropping claims against Apple concerning Tim Cook's 'leakers don't belong' email and the firing of #AppleToo activist Janneke Parrish. Guess some 'violations' are more fleeting than others.

    Are labor boards becoming more company-friendly, or is this just standard legal gymnastics? What's your take?

    engadget.com/big-tech/us-labor
    #Apple #LaborLaw #TechNews #Corporate

  26. LG Energy Solution halted U.S. plant construction and repatriated over 300 detained workers, providing equal support to both employees and partner staff, highlighting responsible corporate conduct amid labor law debates.
    #YonhapInfomax #LGEnergySolution #USDetention #PartnerCompanies #LaborLaw #CorporateResponsibility #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
    en.infomaxai.com/news/articleV

  27. Interesting. Something Iโ€™ve long known to be a myth will become law, at least in #Minnesota. That is, fifteen minute paid breaks will be required for every four hours worked as of 1/1/26.

    #LaborLaw

    revisor.mn.gov/laws/2025/1/6/l

  28. One employee at #USCIS said morale was already low at his workplace, but the #union decision drove it lower. He said he complained to his family, many of whom are former #government union members. The advice he got back, he said, was to move on and find a job outside of government.
    โ€ฉโ€œI feel like the rug just got pulled from under us,โ€ the employee said. โ€œI joined USCIS & the union for #WorkersRights, but this administration wants to erode all that.โ€

    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #CollectiveBargaining

  29. In interviews, several #FederalWorkers lamented the curtailing of #union activities โ€” tying it to a broader erosion of #ChecksAndBalances in American #democracy โ€” & predicted additional agreement cancellations would follow. Most spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
    โ€ฉThe loss of union protections is โ€œjust another way to make life miserable for the employees who are left,โ€ said a #FEMA staff member.

    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #contracts #CollectiveBargaining #FederalAgencies

  30. โ€ฆMost of #VeteransAffairsโ€™s 400,000 #workers are also represented by the AFGE, which has sued the #Trump admin for staffing cuts.
    โ€ฉEverett Kelley, AFGEโ€™s national president, said the decision was โ€œanother clear example of retaliation.โ€
    โ€ฉThe Center of American Progress analyzed #federal #employment data in May & found that ending #CollectiveBargaining agreements at more than a dozen #FederalAgencies would affect 4 out of 5 #FederalWorkers.

    #law #LaborLaw #contracts #unions

  31. The #EPA & the US Citizenship & Immigration Services [#USCIS] have also canceled their #CollectiveBargaining agreements. The agenciesโ€™ actions come after #VeteransAffairs, the federal governmentโ€™s second-largest agency, announced plans last Wednesday to end nearly all of its contracts with federal #unions.โ€ฉ
    #Trump #law #LaborLaw #contracts #FederalAgencies #FederalWorkers

  32. #FEMA & at least 3 other #FederalAgencies have canceled their #contracts with #unions to comply with #Trumpโ€™s #ExecutiveOrder stripping many federal #workers of union protectionsโ€ฆ.
    โ€ฉOn Friday, FEMAโ€™s acting administrator David Richardson sent a memo to American Federation of Government Employees Local 4060, the #union representing the agency, saying that FEMAโ€™s #CollectiveBargaining agreement had been terminated, ending a nearly 10-year #contract.

    #law #LaborLaw
    washingtonpost.com/climate-env

  33. โš  ๐๐„๐– ๐๐‹๐Ž๐† ๐๐Ž๐’๐“ โš 

    ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐œ๐ฒ ๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐คโ€”๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ. ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐!

    ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž โ•ฐโ”ˆโžคหŽหŠห— ๐ก๐ญ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ฌ://๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ.๐œ๐จ๐ฆ/๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ -๐ญ๐ก๐ž-๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ-๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ-๐จ๐Ÿ-๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ-๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐ข๐ง-๐ญ๐ก๐ž-๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž/

    #employmentlawyernearme #workplacelawyer #employmentandlaborlaw #attorneynearme #ConfidentialInformation #medicalinformation #employmentlaw #laborlaw

  34. โš  ๐๐„๐– ๐๐‹๐Ž๐† ๐๐Ž๐’๐“ โš 

    ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐œ๐ฒ ๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐คโ€”๐๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ž๐ซ. ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐!

    ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž โ•ฐโ”ˆโžคหŽหŠห— ๐ก๐ญ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ฌ://๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฐ.๐ฌ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฅ๐š๐ฐ.๐œ๐จ๐ฆ/๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ -๐ญ๐ก๐ž-๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฅ-๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ-๐จ๐Ÿ-๐ฆ๐ž๐๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ-๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง-๐ข๐ง-๐ญ๐ก๐ž-๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž/

    #employmentlawyernearme #workplacelawyer #employmentandlaborlaw #attorneynearme #ConfidentialInformation #medicalinformation #employmentlaw #laborlaw

  35. Maryland employees: The clock is ticking on your right to recover unpaid wages. State law provides a three-year window to file a lawsuit for unpaid wages. Don't let the deadline pass without taking action to secure your earnings.
    buff.ly/426mKoF
    #UnpaidWages #MarylandLaw #WorkersRights #FairCompensation #WageTheft #LaborLaw #ActNow #JusticeForWorkers #EmploymentLaw #KnowYourRights #WageRecovery #LegalSupport #ProtectYourEarnings #WorkersUnite #MarylandLabor #EqualPay #TimeIsRunningOut

  36. Maryland employees: The clock is ticking on your right to recover unpaid wages. State law provides a three-year window to file a lawsuit for unpaid wages. Don't let the deadline pass without taking action to secure your earnings.
    buff.ly/426mKoF
    #UnpaidWages #MarylandLaw #WorkersRights #FairCompensation #WageTheft #LaborLaw #ActNow #JusticeForWorkers #EmploymentLaw #KnowYourRights #WageRecovery #LegalSupport #ProtectYourEarnings #WorkersUnite #MarylandLabor #EqualPay #TimeIsRunningOut

  37. YES! A hopeful milestone for American #Labor & working families:
    The #Teamsters launched what the #union described as "the largest strike against #Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce behemoth's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse workers across the country.

    Workers in New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, and other locations are expected to participate in Thursday's strike, with more facilities prepared to join if Amazon's management doesn't agree to #negotiate contracts with unionized employees.

    commondreams.org/news/teamster

    #dol #laborLaw #collectiveBargaining #negotiation #negotiations #contract #antifeudalism #unionize #workers #strike #fairPay #benefits #PTO #sickPay #peoplePower #livingWage #inflationCausedByUndueProfitTaking #profiteering #antitrust

  38. YES! A hopeful milestone for American #Labor & working families:
    The #Teamsters launched what the #union described as "the largest strike against #Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce behemoth's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse workers across the country.

    Workers in New York City, Atlanta, San Francisco, and other locations are expected to participate in Thursday's strike, with more facilities prepared to join if Amazon's management doesn't agree to #negotiate contracts with unionized employees.

    commondreams.org/news/teamster

    #dol #laborLaw #collectiveBargaining #negotiation #negotiations #contract #antifeudalism #unionize #workers #strike #fairPay #benefits #PTO #sickPay #peoplePower #livingWage #inflationCausedByUndueProfitTaking #profiteering #antitrust