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.
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 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.
Posted inTechsploitation, Workers’ Rights
Objecting to sexual harassment got me fired, says ex-Uber employee
A former Uber employee claimed he was fired last year after sticking up for female colleagues facing sexual harassment, according to a formal complaint that has not previously been made public.
Posted inInequality, Workers’ Rights
‘This is a man’s job’ remark leads to settlement, but manager stays
The manager still works at Automation Personnel Services, a Alabama-based temp agency, where rampant discrimination was found in a Reveal investigation.
Posted inAccountability, The Trump Era, Worked Over
Trump’s labor agenda: Cutting accountability, safety and training
President Trump has already rolled back or stalled regulations meant to protect workers from wage theft, harassment, on-the-job injuries, greedy financial advisors and cancer-causing dust. And that’s all without a new secretary of labor.
Posted inAccountability
Trump budget targets programs that help people get jobs
Trump has promised to create 25 million jobs over the next decade, but his proposed budget shrinks key job programs designed to help laid-off workers and low-income adults break into the workforce.
Posted inAccountability, Immigration, Inequality, The Trump Era, Worked Over
How Trump is transforming America’s anti-discrimination watchdog
With two more Trump appointments to come, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will lurch from a Democratic majority to a Republican one. Acting Chairwoman Victoria Lipnic’s voting record shows what is at stake.
Posted inInequality, Worked Over
Here’s one plan to stop exploitation in the temp industry
An Illinois bill would require temp agencies to track the race and gender of all job applicants. Supporters say it would provide evidence of discrimination when agencies shut out black workers in favor of Latino workers considered easier to exploit.