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Finally, Overtime Coverage For All Domestic Workers In California!, Hina B. Shah
Finally, Overtime Coverage For All Domestic Workers In California!, Hina B. Shah
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After nearly 75 years of exclusion from federal and state labor protections, domestic workers have finally scored two important victories in their fight for equal treatment. Late last week, Governor Brown signed AB 241, extending California overtime protections to domestic workers who spend a significant amount of time caring for children, elderly and people with disabilities. One week earlier the federal Department of Labor finalized new rules that significantly extend federal minimum wage and overtime protections to domestic workers who care for the elderly and people with disabilities. Together, these actions extend overtime coverage to all domestic workers in California.
Worker Cooperative Creation As Progressive Lawyering: Moving Beyond The One-Person, One-Vote Floor, Gowri Krishna
Worker Cooperative Creation As Progressive Lawyering: Moving Beyond The One-Person, One-Vote Floor, Gowri Krishna
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Community Economic Development (CED) scholars posit that creating worker cooperatives, businesses owned and managed by their workers, is a progressive approach to CED that has the potential to go beyond job creation and spur grassroots political activism. Yet many workers’ rights organizations and workers’ rights advocates, especially those serving low-wage immigrant workers, struggle with how to connect worker cooperatives to broader efforts for change. This Article argues that forming a worker cooperative that acts as a change agent requires more than simply structuring the business as a worker cooperative. Cooperative corporation laws and cooperative principles set a floor — typically, …