- Capitalism with a human face
- College Grads Taking Low-Wage Jobs Displace Less Educated
- For Job-Hunting Teenagers, the Market Is Brutal
- Canada: Unpaid internships focus of growing backlash
- Walmart's Anti-Union Training Documents Demand "Loyalty"
- My Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor—"After veteran reporter Joseph Williams lost his job, he found employment in a sporting-goods store. In a personal essay, he recalls his struggles with challenges millions of Americans return to day after day."
- Obama Will Seek Broad Expansion of Overtime Pay—"President Obama this week will direct the Labor Department to revamp its regulations to require overtime pay for millions of workers." And as expected, Republicans oppose it. NYT
- Opinion: Reduce the Workweek to 30 Hours—"Workers on shorter hours are under less stress, get sick less often and are more loyal. Plus a shorter workweek is better for the environment." NYT
- The world watches the US on labor abuse
- GOP Bill to 'Save American Workers' Would Actually Strip Health Care From a Million Workers, CBO Reports
- After 12 years of war, labor abuses rampant on US bases in Afghanistan—"More than a year after Obama’s executive order outlawing forced labor on US military bases, exploitation remains."
- Nowhere Close: The Long March from Here to Full Employment
- Can Germany Reform American Labor Relations?—"German corporations are far more respectful of worker rights—and may have more influence on future US developments than our politicians realize."
- UK: Vulnerable man starved to death after benefits were cut—"44-year-old died months after sickness and housing benefits were stopped following Atos fitness-for-work assessment."
- Fired for urinating in a box, a Minnesota factory worker takes a company to court
- McDonald's workers sue for wage theft
- USIS fires manager for pressuring employees to work overtime without pay WaPo
- Intellectually disabled woman paid $1.25 an hour wins landmark case
- Enron Billionaire Brags About Being Expert on Cutting Pensions
- Reich: The Real Job Killers
- Highest Minimum-Wage State Washington Beats U.S. Job Growth—"When Washington residents voted in 1998 to raise the state's minimum wage and link it to the cost of living, opponents warned the measure would be a job-killer. The prediction hasn't been borne out."
- Real World Evidence That Increasing The Minimum Wage Doesn't Cost Jobs
- Minimum Wage Boost Would Cut Food Stamp Tab by $4.6 Billion WSJ
- All of the Arguments Against Raising the Minimum Wage Have Fallen Apart
- Why GOP should support raising minimum wage
- Dem Guv. Candidate Wants To Raise Minimum Wage Above Obama Proposal
- Buffett: I'd love to see minimum wage at $15 an hour
- Warren: Minimum wage hike needed to 'stop income inequality in America' WaPo
- F.D.R. Makes the Case for the Minimum Wage—"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country." NYT
- U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Amazon workers' security check case—"The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case that could determine whether companies such as Amazon.com Inc must pay workers for the time they spend waiting to clear security checks at the end of their work shifts."
- How Crowdworkers Became the Ghosts in the Digital Machine—"Since 2005, Amazon has helped create one of the most exploited workforces no one has ever seen."
- Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon’s sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers—"You might find your Prime membership morally indefensible after reading these stories about worker mistreatment." Salon
- Family: Stricken Amazon worker unnoticed for 8 hours
- The Amazon Effect: Staples To Close 225 Stores, Says It's Now Making Half Of All Sales Online
- U.S. justices extend employee whistleblower protections—"The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday said whistleblower protections apply not just to publicly traded companies but also to subcontractors that do business with them."
- JPMorgan whistleblower gets $63.9 million in mortgage fraud deal
- Playboy Must Pay $6 Million to Fired Executive in Largest Federal Whistleblower Verdict Ever
- Wall Street average bonus rose 15% in 2013—Pretty much double the current Federal minimum wage.
- Does the SEC force its employees to insider trade?—"Here's a twist in the government's recent crackdown on insider selling: One of the main regulators tasked with policing the illegal practice may be instructing its employees to do just that."
- UBS traders tried to rig key Hong Kong interest rate
- George Soros blasts 'parasite' banks—"George Soros, the billionaire investor, has warned that little has changed since the 2008 crisis in the 'parasite' banking sector."
- Obama Still Wants To Kill Wall Street's Favorite Tax Loophole—Time to tax Wall Street.
- Republicans joining populists in ending corporate welfare for banks WaPo
- 15 Vermont Towns Vote to Start a Public Bank that Works for Them, Not Wall Street
- SEC investigating Citigroup over Mexico fraud: Source—Citigroup has confirmed it [NYT].
- Bank of America back in court over $2.1 billion fraud penalties
- London gold-fix banks accused of manipulation in U.S. lawsuit: report
- U.S. regulator sues 16 banks for rigging Libor rate
- Bankers Behaving Badly Face 6-Year Bonus Clawback by BoE—"Misbehaving bankers and their bosses will have to hand back bonuses up to six years after they pocket them under a rule the Bank of England is proposing to prevent excessive risk-taking." NYT
- Senate confirms Wall Street critic for Treasury Department post—"The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin to be the No. 2 official at the Treasury Department, backing a critic of Wall Street to help coordinate an overhaul of financial regulations."
- Bank told to pay $3.2M for 'shocking' foreclosure—"A New Mexico judge has issued a $3.2 million judgment against Wells Fargo & Co. for foreclosing on a man's home after his death, even though he had a purchased an insurance policy through the bank that would have paid the remaining balance on his mortgage."
- Wells Fargo made up on-demand foreclosure papers plan: court filing charges
- Wall Street buyers snap up thousands of local homes for rentals
- Key senators agree on plan to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—"The bipartisan proposal would slowly shrink the housing finance companies and replace them with a scaled-back government guarantee for mortgages."
- Watchdog faults FBI for making mortgage fraud a low priority—"The FBI ranked mortgage fraud as its lowest criminal threat after the height of the financial crisis, even though the U.S. Justice Department had said that investigating mortgage fraud was to be a priority, a report by a department watchdog said on Thursday."
- Jon Stewart Hits Back At Fox Host For Trying To 'School' Him On Food Stamps
- Gina Rinehart takes aim at Australia's 'entitlement mentality', points to Thatcher
- Park 'lounging' law rankles local family—"A local family says their afternoon at a local park was ruined after a homeless person complained to police that they were lying down. Under the city code, visitors to parks cannot 'sleep or protractedly lounge' on seats, benches or other areas." All because of anti-homeless ordinance.
- All fish in public lakes are public—Rich lodge owner lays claim over lake.
- Court ruling in land dispute could threaten bike trails
