Jon Steingart
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Inbox: N.Y. attorney general to make major national announcement Thursday
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The Washington Post is projecting that California voters approved Proposition 22, which will keep app-based ride-hailing drivers and food delivery workers classified as independent contractors.
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Happy pride from the Province Lands bike trail in Provincetown!
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Judge Kollar-Kotelly doesn't just quote Trump's military transgender ban tweets. She screenshots them.
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@Amtrak
Hi, conductor — I have a question for you. (The answer doesn't matter.)
It's the battle of the bunks. 👊 Which are you choosing — top or bottom?
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The Calif. Supreme Court decided a case that could add billions in labor costs to employers' bottom line by requiring them to pay employees for work time that previously went uncompensated [UPDATED STORY]
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Happy Monday and good morning, here is a car being towed from a bus lane ✌️
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On this day in 1990: Pres. George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of disability in employment and a range of other contexts
#otd
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FYI: Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan waits in the Shake Shack line like everybody else
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NEWS: Second Circuit overrules its own precedent and becomes the second federal appeals court to hold Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation
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I'm told a white pickup truck just mowed down bicyclists + a cop in Adams Morgan area of Washington DC; local officials say police on scene
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Time magazine's person of the year is journalists who were murdered imprisoned, and harassed for doing their job.
- Jamal Kashoggi
- Capital Gazette staff
- Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo
- Maria Ressa
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The Park Police is towing food trucks on the National Mall
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Safe to say today's ruling will reach far beyond employment discrimination. Numerous laws that prohibit sex discrimination rely on Title VII's definition, including protections in healthcare, housing, and education.
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"Employees shall have the right ... to engage in ... concerted activities for the purpose of ... other mutual aid or protection."
-- Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, 29 U.S.C. § 157.
NYT reporters in a rare open revolt over the opinion side running Tom Cotton’s op-Ed calling to deploy the military to “restore order.”
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@BenjaminCrew1
The university’s mascot is a terrapin turtle. Looks like they painted Kermit on a turtle statue.
Why Kermit? His creator, Jim Henson, was a Maryland alum. There is a statue of them on campus.
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A fourth contractor says it hasn't been paid for work done on the new Trump hotel in DC (background on other three: )
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As supporters and critics in my mentions are pointing out, gig companies like Uber & Lyft (and others) sunk $200M into this campaign. It was the most expensive ballot question in California history.
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NEWS: Pres. Biden continues clearing out Trump holdovers. Today, he's firing Sharon Fast Gustafson, the
@USEEOC
general counsel who manages the agency's job discrimination enforcement in court,
@VinGLaw360
reports.
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A Cabinet secretary standing with a union leader is something we have not seen in a while
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Good morning only to this parking enforcement officer who ticketed four cars parked in the 16th Street bus lane
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Take a few moments and read about his contributions to theater z’’l
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight?
Mom: *nudging me* that should've been you
Me: Not now mom
Mom: Not asking for a labor lawyer to help, are they?
Me: Mom, there's a medical emergency happening right now
Mom: Go and see if collective bargaining helps
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DC is known for its free museums, but did you know you can use your
@dcpl
library card to visit a few museums that normally charge fees?
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Passed California Ballot Measure Allows Uber, Lyft To Categorize Workers As Car Parts
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Back in February 2017,
@waltshaub
, then-director of the Office of Government Ethics, dinged another White House adviser, Kellyanne Conway, for promoting Ivanka Trump's apparel brand in her capacity as a federal employee.
If it’s Goya, it has to be good.
Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.
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#BREAKING
: The California Supreme Court just abandoned its old test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor and adopted an approach that favors employee status
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“You don’t have to have a background in gender theory or academia to be a good ally.”
If you’re seeing your trans relative this holiday season here are five tips to help turn your family time into Happy Holidays for all.
✨💖✨
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Federal employees who had been scheduled for paid time off this week are also snagged by the partial government shutdown because a furlough supersedes all forms of pay status, including leave.
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In recent years, charges have been filed against the chief of staff to Maryland's governor and the Baltimore mayor as a result of Baltimore Sun reporting.
Local news matters.
BREAKING: Roy McGrath,
@GovLarryHogan
's former chief of staff has been INDICTED in federal court on multiple counts related to his severance pay when he departed his prior job at Maryland Environmental Service.
The latest with
@justin_fenton
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No room in the garage? Just park on the lawn and the sidewalk!
(Narrator: there is room in the garage)
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BREAK: Pres. Biden is ordering federal agencies to phase in a $15 minimum wage for contractors beginning in 2022, the White House says.
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DC’s local police department seems to say it doesn’t know who the apparent group of uniformed people are or if they are even federal law enforcement personnel.
@Allen12545830
@GarrettHaake
@NBCNews
@MayorBowser
The officers in the video are not members of our agency. They appear to be with Federal Law Enforcement.
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Uhhh the portable restroom at the downtown holiday market is in a trailer with a license plate that expired more than a year ago
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Caught a bird’s eye view of today’s thunderstorms during my flight’s descent
@capitalweather
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Gentle reminder to my friends in the press who are covering Julian Assange: his alleged accomplice is Chelsea Manning.
Referring to her by her former name is not how you should report your stories.
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Get you a man who looks at you the way I look at DC from an airplane
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If you ever want to keep your ego in check, try feeling good about waking up early to get coffee on a Saturday morning and then being thwarted by street closures for thousands of half marathon runners who got up even earlier.
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@AlexCTaliadoros
Newspaper website paywalls are a thing of the past with a
@dcpl
card. Not every newspaper, but I know Washington Business Journal and Washington Post are here, plus some other big names.
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UPDATED: It just got a lot harder for gig economy companies in California to say their workers are independent contractors. Here's why.
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Lauren McFerran, the sole Democrat on the 4-member National Labor Relations Board (plus one vacancy), has been designated chair by Pres. Biden, per NLRB announcement
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Sen. Tim Kaine appears to be wearing a puffy coat under his suit jacket
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Prop 22’s roots trace to 2018, when the state Supreme Court made it tougher to classify workers as contractors. While Californians were voting on Tuesday, the court was considering how expansive that ruling should be.
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Sadly, these ancient runes’ meaning has been lost to history. Not even drivers headed back to offices know their secret.
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A judge dismissed part of Ashley Judd's lawsuit that alleges Harvey Weinstein sabotaged her career after she spurned his sexual advances.
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I remember
@arishapiro
's coverage of Pulse like it was yesterday. Here was a gay reporter, talking to gay Floridians, about the slaughter of gay people in a gay nightclub.
Newsroom diversity makes a difference.
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@WTOP
So sad that cyclists never stop or shop anywhere. Just keep cycling on and until they fall over and die, fists full of unspent dollars.
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@glaad
I volunteer at a pro bono legal clinic where I help trans people update their name and gender markers on identity documents, and yesterday they gave me an award
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Just in: Oregon gov.
@KateBrownForOR
signs worker scheduling bill into law, making it the first state to have one
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Good morning from the 14th Street car-free lane in Columbia Heights, where a
@Metrobusinfo
bus cannot move because it’s blocked in by
@wmata
and
@MetroTransitPD
vehicles
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I asked the person in this DC parking enforcement vehicle whether parking in a bike lane is allowed.
A: “No, it’s not.”
I asked if they’d ticket a vehicle parked in a bike lane.
A: “Yes.”
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Hi 👋
@311DCgov
, I told you yesterday about this bus lane blockage and I didn’t hear back. But this group is here again today, just as they are every day. Can you ask them to stop parking in the bus lane?
2434 16th St NW
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JUST IN: Overtime lawsuit filed against
@realDonaldTrump
by Noel Cintron, his personal driver for 25+ years
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NEW: A federal judge dismissed Ashley Judd's sexual harassment lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein, but let her defamation and other claims proceed.
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Welcome to August 2020. 30 million people without jobs just lost $600/wk in unemployment benefits. That's a huge hit to their ability to pay for basic expenses like housing and food.
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Welcome to Club WMATA, the hottest nightlife spot in the metrorail system 🔥🔥🔥
@unsuckdcmetro
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Tom Perez is joining Venable as a partner in its DC office. You may know him from his time as
@TheDemocrats
chair,
@USDOL
secretary,
@CivilRights
chief at the Justice Dept, secretary of
@MD_Labor
, or member of
@MoCoCouncilMD
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Your weekly reminder that queer people are incredible 💖💫
👋 It’s time for our Friday Night Chat. What’s a piece of good news you’ve received this week? It can be big or small, just something that made you feel good. Tweet us and let us know.
Love and take care of each other. ✨
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NEWS: Harris Funeral Homes to pay $250K to settle a suit saying it discriminated when it fired transgender funeral director Aimee Stephens, per
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Stephens died in May, a few weeks before the Supreme Court ruled for her and held that Title VII bars trans discrimination.
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When journalists cover legal decisions, they fall short when they don't include the primary source. These docs aren't secret or scoops; they're public decisions rendered by public officials. People who are affected by them may want to read them. Lawyers *definitely* want to.
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Good morning from the Columbia Heights early voting center, where in-person early voting doesn’t begin for another 8 minutes. The line stretches an entire block and I stopped counting once I spotted 100 people.
#DCision20
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Riding the 42 around Dupont Circle is always a gamble. Will someone be illegally parked for *just a minute* outside Starbucks and hold up Connecticut Ave traffic? Let's find out!
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Huh, funny how that happened
Unpaid traffic tickets since 2000 cost DC taxpayers $841 million in uncollected fines, most from Maryland. Council pursuing legislation to authorize DC Attorney General to (civil) sue egregious violators. Part of major traffic law overhaul.
@wcp
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I’m just an area resident, standing in the 1600 block of U Street NW, checking out a pair of tall apartment buildings
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Prop 22 does create some minimum pay and benefits requirements for ride-hailing drivers and food delivery workers. And other sectors are still covered by AB 5 (unless they were previously exempted).
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This is new: the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel launched a Spanish-language Twitter account
A las mujeres trabajadoras se les paga $0.82 por cada dólar que se les paga a los hombres. El hablar con compañeros de trabajo sobre el pago es un derecho protegido y es fundamental para abordar las disparidades.
#EqualPayDay
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News (broke last night): Seattle defeats
@RightToWork
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