National Institute for Workers' Rights

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Some good news for workers' rights.

House Passes Key Protections For Pregnant Workers The bill, in the works for years, brings actual good news for women in 2020.

Over 60 million of America’s non-union private-sector workers are bound by forced arbitration. How did we get here? Our timeline series, Justice Denied: How The U.S. Supreme Court Forced America’s Workers Into Arbitration, answer the question. http://bit.ly/forcedarbtimeline

Our monthly newsletter, The Employee Rights Briefing, is designed to give you a digestible snapshot of news and emerging trends impacting America's workers. Each issue provides a look at employment law in the news and in the courts, along with a glance at Workers' Rights By The Numbers.

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New Institute report finds 80 of the top 100 largest companies in America, including subsidiaries or related affiliates, have used arbitration agreements in connection with workplace-related disputes since 2010. Of the 80 companies with arbitration agreements in the workplace, nearly half use arbitration clauses containing class waivers.

SIlencing workers is becoming the norm in America. This is unacceptable! The time has come the end in the American workplace!

New Report Indicates Widespread Use Of Workplace Arbitration The Widespread Use of Workplace Arbitration Among America’s Top 100 Companies By Professor Imre S. Szalai Judge John D. Wessel Distinguished Professor of Social Justice Loyola University New Orlean…

With , the deck is stacked against workers. Check out the Public Welfare Foundation's most recent article highlighting the danger of forced arbitration in the American workplace: http://www.publicwelfare.org/forcing-employees-into-arbitration/

Public Welfare - Forcing Employees into Arbitration Last year, when Fox News did not renew the contract of television commentator and anchor Gretchen Carlson, she filed a lawsuit against the network’s then chairman Roger Ailes, insisting that she was fired because of her refusal to submit to his sexual advances and not because of disappointing rating...