by Molly Coleman | Mar 6, 2023 | Coercive Contracts, Worker Power
Worker and consumer rights advocates from California and across the country call on the California attorney regulation agency to act quickly to clarify that it is unethical for attorneys to encourage corporate clients to include illegal or unenforceable terms in...
by Molly Coleman | May 26, 2021 | Coercive Contracts, Worker Power
The People’s Parity Project opposes Uber & Lyft’s latest attempt to write their own labor laws, this time in New York State. Last week, Bloomberg reported about a possible deal that the app-based companies are negotiating behind closed doors to undercut recent...
by People's Parity Project | Feb 11, 2021 | Coercive Contracts, Get Involved
On February 11, 2021, the House Judiciary Committee held the first hearing in over a year on the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act. The FAIR Act would stop companies from forcing workers and consumers into arbitration, a privatized “justice” system that...
by People's Parity Project | Nov 9, 2020 | Coercive Contracts, Courts, Get Involved, Legal Profession
Since Donald Trump started occupying the Oval Office, we have seen all-out assaults on workers’ rights, unprecedented rigging of the courts, and total impunity for the legal architects of this administration’s atrocities. Thanks to the tireless work of the...
by Molly Coleman | Sep 22, 2020 | Coercive Contracts
Saint Paul, Minnesota — Today, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the first step in an agency’s attempt to make a substantive change to the rules, regulations, and interpretations in its purview. The Department intends to...
by People's Parity Project | Aug 27, 2020 | Coercive Contracts, Coronavirus, In the News
This summer, law students around the country have been fighting our own schools’ efforts to lobby for corporate immunity. Universities, like many other employers, are lobbying Congress to pass sweeping liability waivers that would make businesses and...
