NewsHealth, Labor Company Settles With Home Health Aides Seeking Unpaid Wages For Round-the-Clock Care The court approved a settlement of $600,000 for damages, penalties, and all unpaid wages and overtime. Liz DonovanDecember 20, 2021
InvestigationHealth, Labor Long Hours, Low Pay, Loneliness, and a Booming Industry The ranks of home health aides are expected to grow more than any other job in the next decade. What kind of work are they being asked to do? Liz Donovan & Muriel AlarcónColumbia Journalism Investigations, The New York TimesSeptember 25, 2021
InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Labor The Incalculable Cost of Cheap Chicken—and the Hidden Industry That Shoulders It Poultry plants, many of which rely on immigrant labor, already had high rates of occupational illness. Then the pandemic made everything worse. Tina VasquezScalawagJuly 20, 2021
AnalysisLabor Roundtable: How Fact-Checkers Bring Certainty to Uncertain Times A rare newsroom role can help journalism meet the moment. Maha AhmedOctober 1, 2020
InvestigationBusiness, Labor The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic While some companies do everything to escape accountability, the Fair Food Program proves there’s an alternative. John BoweThe NationSeptember 14, 2020
InvestigationBusiness, Labor, Politics Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its Own Mission The federal agency that’s supposed to protect union rights is instead championing the interests of bosses. Michelle ChenThe NationSeptember 7, 2020
InvestigationBusiness, Immigration, Labor The Factory Oversight Industry Protects Profits, Not People An investigation into the dangerously irresponsible business of “ethical factory” audits. Maria HengeveldThe NationApril 23, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Labor Detroit’s Health Care Workers Ask: ‘How Many Lives Can We Save?’ Doctors and nurses in one of the nation’s poorest, blackest big cities are fighting a raging coronavirus outbreak and a flawed health care system. Here’s what life is like for them right now. Patricia Anstett, Jonathan Cohn, Tom Perkins & Anna ClarkHuffPostApril 16, 2020
InvestigationEnvironment, Health, Labor As National Parks Remain Open, Staffers Worry They Are at Risk Department of Interior leadership sends conflicting signals Adam FedermanSierra MagazineApril 9, 2020
InvestigationBusiness, Health, Labor As Coronavirus Spread, Financial Services Contractor Told Warehouse Workers They Aren’t Allowed to Get Sick In a Long Island warehouse, immigrants work long hours doing mailings for a multibillion-dollar financial services company. Now they’re getting sick. Gabriel ThompsonThe InterceptApril 7, 2020