An advocate says the new law protecting temp workers was in part due to a 2016 investigation by Reveal.
Will Evans
Senior Reporter and Producer
Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Posted inAccountability, Inequality, Returning Home to Battle, The Trump Era, Workers’ Rights
Trump civil rights nominee called allowing women in combat ‘laughable’
An Iraq War veteran nominated by Trump to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says he has since changed his mind about women in combat.
Posted inInequality, Religion and Government, The Trump Era
Woman who fought Abercrombie: ‘I feel like we are taking a step backward’
The woman who took her discrimination case to the Supreme Court calls Eric Dreiband’s nomination to a DOJ post “a step backward.”
Posted inThe Trump Era
Steel firm that stayed on Trump council until the end knows about racism
A federal court said racial discrimination at Nucor was highly offensive. The company’s CEO was a member of Trump’s disbanded manufacturing council.
Posted inInequality, Techsploitation
Has Google increased representation of women? Not so much
There is a mistaken but entrenched belief that the tech industry is based on pure meritocracy, says Caroline Simard, senior director of research at Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Posted inAnd Justice for Some, Government Workers, The Trump Era
Jack Abramoff: Trump Labor Department nominee ‘very ethical person’
Patrick Pizzella, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy labor secretary, has one endorsement he may not want. Jack Abramoff, the infamous lobbyist who went to prison for fraud and corruption, called Pizzella “a very ethical person” in an interview with Reveal.
Posted inGovernment Workers, The Trump Era, Workers’ Rights
Trump’s pick for wage chief sued for stiffing house cleaners
Currently head of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, Cheryl Stanton was named last year in a lawsuit alleging she failed to pay her house cleaners.
Posted inInequality, Workers’ Rights
Timeline of Uber troubles traces CEO’s downfall
Amid the cascade of Uber scandals, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Little ones get lost – like the time, last year, when a federal judge berated Uber for using unlicensed private investigators to fraudulently dig up dirt on a conservationist who had sued the company. To help keep track of the mess, here’s a timeline of Uber’s more recent troubles.
Posted inUncategorized
Trump budget promises focus on workers but slashes discrimination office
President Donald Trump’s budget claims to “focus on the forgotten American worker.” But when it comes to protecting the American worker from job discrimination, the focus is on cuts.
Posted inAccountability, Worked Over
Given a test to apply for a job? Watch out if you are not a white man
The misuse of employment tests – which measure reading, math and other cognitive skills – can unfairly disadvantage minorities and women without the employers or the job applicants even realizing it.