Gigi Generaux

I am a failed Twitter user.

[Charlotte Burrows @BurrowsCA]

I’m reminded that almost six decades ago, on June 10, 1964, a bipartisan coalition of Senators ended a 60-day filibuster to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which finally extended civil, political, and legal rights to African Americans.

[Charlotte Burrows @BurrowsCA]

I’m disappointed @USEEOC voted today to rescind its civil rights guidance on theories of discrimination, rather than examining civil rights issues raised by COVID-19. We should focus in future on how to apply the ADA & other employment laws during the pandemic.

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“The poster recommends ten infection prevention measures all workplaces can take to reduce the risk of exposure to coronavirus.”

[Employment Law News @Labor_Law]

OSHA Issues Workplace Posters to Reduce Risk of Coronavirus Exposure https://t.co/YdNBEh137Q | by @CSG_PC

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“The Board found that the direct solicitation by an employee’s supervisor had a reasonable tendency to coerce and interfere with the employee’s protected rights under the Act.”

[Employment Law News @Labor_Law]

NLRB Reaffirms Limitations on Employers’ Ability to Solicit Employee Assistance in Anti-Union Campaigning and Confidentiality Restrictions https://t.co/MDZpI0tWLW | by @LaborRelUpdate

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

Please read and share this first-person account of PPE shortages in American hospitals that I published on Medium. Thanks!

https://t.co/BYAparKwf4

[Braden Campbell @TweetsByBraden]

The EEOC has launched 50 percent more sexual harassment lawsuits since the #MeToo movement started, @VinGLaw360 reports https://t.co/CkAMdQokM8

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“Amazon outsources liability for this program, making use of a legal loophole that allows it to evade the traditional responsibilities that would come with the employee/employer relationship  . . . This raise won’t apply to independent contractors.”

[Braden Campbell @TweetsByBraden]

PS: Stay tuned for Vin's exclusive interview with @USEEOC Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic on the first year of #MeToo

[Chai Feldblum @chaifeldblum]

Useful graph from @Law360 on the 12% increase in sexual harassment charges filed w/EOC in the past fiscal year. The increase has happened even while our overall number of charges have dropped. https://t.co/M2t0d07PWM

[NewsandGuts @NewsandGuts]

Dan Rather: “Time and time again, in the course of American history, solitary acts of courage have blossomed into movements for social justice.” https://t.co/zBMajHm6fM #christineblaseyford

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“Equileap, which ranks firms on gender-equality criteria, now includes sexual-harassment policies. It is seeing strong demand for such data . . . partly because the headline costs of a scandal are clear: shares of several big firms have fallen sharply after executive departures.”

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Sexual-harassment scandals are hurting companies’ reputations and balance sheets https://t.co/6kyMrF4Z7w

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“Across Minnesota, the number of farms declined between 2007 and 2012, but the number of large farms grew. Independent pharmacies used to account for half of all pharmacies in the state, but in 2012 had declined to just one quarter of all pharmacies.”

[Mike Elk (Mike Elk on Bluesky - Moving There) @MikeElk]

@tribunemagazine Jacobin has long contended that they lack the money to pay their writers more than $50-$100.

However, their acquistion of the legacy @tribunemagazine raises questions about how much money they truly have

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“If employers consider salary history, any pay discrimination that occurred at one company is likely to follow a worker around for the rest of their life. It makes it very difficult to address long-term pay discrimination.”

[Scott Law Team @ScottLawTeam]

California State Law Bars Use of Salary History in Attempts to Justify Paying California Women Less Than Men https://t.co/fKgKJCr0H9 #employmentlaw #lawyers #california

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“Uber's defense got a boost after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Epic Systems Corp v Lewis, ruled 5-4 in May that companies could compel workers to waive their right to class actions and instead pursue arbitration for various workplace disputes.“

[Paul M. Secunda @psecundaWrkProf]

No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. appeals court | Article [AMP] | Reuters https://t.co/cHXnL21enH

[Mike Elk (Mike Elk on Bluesky - Moving There) @MikeElk]

Jacobin Publisher Bhaskar Sunkara Accused of Reneging on Wage Deal in British Takeover of @tribunemagazine.

Workers says they accepted 70% of back wages owed but then were axed after sale completed.

https://t.co/rs41K2L0jO

[ACLU of Wisconsin @ACLUofWisconsin]

BREAKING: We just won our case against the State of Wisconsin over health insurance coverage for transgender state employees. The Judge called the exclusion of coverage "a straightforward case of sex discrimination."

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“A union election took place in Greensboro, N.C., the day before Hurricane Florence made landfall . . . Two days before the election, Haeco requested that the vote be postponed because of the hurricane. The #NLRB regional director denied the request, and the vote took place.”

[Gigi Generaux @GigiGeneraux]

“Since February, when the center re-opened its legal clinic, it has received more than 170 complaints from workers for wages totaling in excess of $557,000. The training appears to be paying off as more workers are starting to come forward prepared to take action.”

[Mike Elk (Mike Elk on Bluesky - Moving There) @MikeElk]

A year after Hurricane Harvey, I went down to Houston to see how workers’ rights groups used hurricane recovery as an opportunity to grow power https://t.co/9a0RYLOnAF

[Labor initiatives @gotrudovi]

Public accountability and anti-corruption work is about more than courts and laws, it's about moving power from elites to average people. It's about creating solidarity and democracy, power, at the local level. - Tristan Masat, @SolidarityCntr Country Program Director, #Ukraine