National Institute for Workers' Rights

09/25/2020

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09/17/2020

Some good news for workers' rights.

The bill, in the works for years, brings actual good news for women in 2020.

08/13/2019

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

06/04/2019

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.

Read the June issue at https://conta.cc/2KpsHFm

09/29/2017

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!

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…

06/30/2017

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/

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