On January 1, 2026, California Assembly Bill 1340 took effect — granting rideshare drivers in the state the legal right to form unions and collectively bargain with companies like Uber and Lyft. It is the most significant gig worker labor protection passed by any state in the country. It was years in the making and…
Eight in ten employees worldwide are not engaged at work. The question isn’t whether that number is alarming. It’s why the old solutions stopped working. For decades, the employer’s side of the deal was relatively simple to define. Show up. Pay fairly. Offer benefits. Keep the lights on. If workers were satisfied — not miserable,…
Faculty lawyers call the government’s evidence cherry-picked and statistically weak. The university has offered two settlements anyway. The gap between those positions is the story. Yale University has now made two settlement offers to resolve Justice Department investigations into its admissions practices — the first rejected by the government, the second pending, according to the…
Four New York Times reporters were subpoenaed by a U.S. attorney days before his confirmation hearing to run national intelligence. The instrument is the message. The Justice Department has subpoenaed four New York Times journalists — Julian Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt — according to the Times’ own reporting. The subpoenas were…
DHS told companies to terminate workers whose protected status expires this month. The firing is legal, the workers did nothing, and the employer is the enforcement mechanism. The Department of Homeland Security told employers on Friday to let go of workers whose Temporary Protected Status work permits expire later this month — a group that…
New federal borrowers now choose between a repayment plan that disqualifies them from Public Service Loan Forgiveness and one that stretches forgiveness to 30 years. Advocacy groups say the fine print is the policy. A coalition of more than 100 nonprofit and service organizations is telling federal student loan borrowers not to enroll in one…
In 1990, a British passport let you visit about 55 countries without a visa. Today, it lets you visit more than 190 — nearly every country on earth. The passport hasn’t changed much. What changed is the architecture of the international agreements that make it useful. Mobility, it turns out, is a negotiated asset. And…
Bending Spoons has acquired Evernote, Vimeo, AOL, and Eventbrite. It employs a few hundred people to run all of them. That’s the point. Bending Spoons does not look like a company managing billions of dollars in software brands. It looks like a very selective Italian startup that happens to own the internet’s back catalog. The…
New York’s tolling system has reduced traffic and generated hundreds of millions for transit. It has also revealed something more uncomfortable: policies designed around averages can impose disproportionate costs on the workers least able to change how they move through the city. Six months into New York’s congestion pricing experiment, the results are in —…
New data from Quest Diagnostics shows corporate positive rates rising as major employers quietly drop pre-hire marijuana screening — with or without a clear federal signal to do so. The numbers are moving in two directions at once, and together they tell a story about how corporate marijuana policy is actually being made in America…