WBUR reports how action by a union worked to get some 6,500 workers at state facilities more pay - $5 to $10 an hour depending on position - in the face of a deadly pandemic.
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By adamg - 4/6/20 - 3:35 pm
With an initial donation of $25,000, the Main Streets programs in Allston Village and Brighton have created Workers Relief Funds for local workers in Allston and Brighton who have lost their jobs due to coronavirus. Read more.
By perruptor - 4/4/20 - 6:41 pm
Dr. Anne Klibanski, the president and chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare sent an email to Partners employees.
By adamg - 3/30/20 - 10:42 am
The Supreme Judicial Court and the Board of Bar Examiners announced today that the Massachusetts bar exam, originally scheduled for July 28 and July 29, has been postponed until sometime in the fall, due to Covid-19 concerns.
The exact new dates have yet to be determined.
By Bette - 3/18/20 - 8:08 pm
Does anyone have experience with unemployment? Specifically for restaurant staff that has been laid off this week? Yes, I have tried contacting the office which is impossible right now.
To receive benefits you must prove you are actively looking for work. The restaurant industry is entirely closed, how on earth can any of us look for work?
By adamg - 3/16/20 - 11:56 pm
Boston Sports Clubs told workers today that when the clubs closed for the interim today, they would be laid off. The chain's Web site alerts members about the shutdown but doesn't say anything about suspending monthly memberships until the clubs can re-open. Read more.
By adamg - 3/16/20 - 10:18 am
The United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley is seeking donations for a new fund aimed at helping "the families of hospitality, retail and other hourly workers, those experiencing homelessness, and children relying on school for one or more meals each day." Read more.
By adamg - 2/5/20 - 10:23 pm
WGBH reports an agency that places foreign au pairs with US families says it will no longer place au pairs in Massachusetts now that federal courts have upheld a state law requiring they be paid at least the state minimum wage. It's a different agency than the one an au pair recently sued for back wages.
By adamg - 1/31/20 - 10:12 am
An au pair who worked in Middlesex County is seeking at least $10 million for herself and roughly 500 other au pairs in a suit against the California concern that brought them to Massachusetts, now that a federal court has upheld the legality of a Massachusetts law that requires au pairs earn at least the state minimum wage. Read more.
By adamg - 12/3/19 - 3:35 pm
A federal appeals court today dismissed a lawsuit by a private agency that places au pairs in Massachusetts - and two families that have used its services - against the state Attorney General's office, which had determined their clients should have to pay foreign au pairs at least the state minimum wage of $12 an hour, rather than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/19 - 2:57 pm
The hotel and Unite Here 26, which represents workers, came to an agreement and workers voted today to ratify the new contract, the union reports. Read more.
By adamg - 11/10/19 - 12:59 pm
No, we're not talking about fever dreams about high-speed rail between Basketballville and the Hub, but about the estimated 10,000 people who already commute from the western part of the state to jobs in the Boston area. MassLive.com interviews one guy who spends $230 a week in tolls and gas to commute from Springfield to downtown Boston - 25% of his take-home pay.
By adamg - 10/4/19 - 9:58 pm
WFXT reports National Grid has told that worker who blared his horn and yelled at a Belmont woman with Warren, pro-LGBTQ and national-park stickers on her car that his services are no longer needed.
By adamg - 9/26/19 - 5:15 pm
The city of Boston is looking to hire 11 "parking meter supervisors" to patrol city streets and municipal lots looking for vehicles that merit you issuing parking tickets or that need to be simply towed away, all while acting in a "courteous and professional manner" as you explain the law to people who are getting a ticket or watching their car be hooked up to a tow truck. Read more.
By adamg - 6/25/19 - 4:19 pm
Workers at Wayfair, the online home-furnishings concern, are organizing a walkout tomorrow afternoon to protest the company's decision to keep selling furniture to a government contractor that runs detention camps along the border. The walkout is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., with organizers hoping to have workers converge on Copley Square to demand the company end the contract and give the profits it's already made on the sales to RAICES, an immigration support group in Texas.
By adamg - 6/12/19 - 12:04 pm
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that an American who worked as an administrative assistant in the Canadian consulate in Boston can try to convince a judge that the consulate should pay her for injuries she suffered in a fall there, in a case in which both the Canadian government and the US State Department were forced to consider the intricacies of Massachusetts workers compensation law. Read more.
By adamg - 5/10/19 - 9:33 am
Rendering of proposed Flint Street farm from filing with BPDA.
The Urban Farming Institute of Boston is getting ready to break ground on quarter-acre farm on Flint Street in Mattapan, behind the Wave gas station. Read more.
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