As New York state struggles to stamp out pervasive wage theft, workers have been left with little legal recourse against their bosses. In the state legislature,
The Republican candidate’s odds of victory in November stand to be swayed by the decisions of judges and jurors in New York and Washington. In the Art Deco criminal courthouse in Manhattan, prosecutors started methodically building a case against Trump while the conservative justices in the US Supreme Court’s marble-walled chamber seemed inclined to give the former president some support for his immunity argument.
The FTC’s recent decision in favor of a near-total ban of noncompete provisions in employee contracts last week will have seismic positive impacts on workers and the broader economy, writes Terri Gerstein.