Andrew Puzder, President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, really doesn’t like minimum wage increases: He once spent $10,000 to oppose a pay bump of one dollar an hour.
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
Why privacy advocates are worried about Uber’s security problems
Blackmail. Espionage. Hacking. These are the potential threats that worry Claire Gartland, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, about former Uber employees’ description of how the ride-hailing giant handles customer data.
Posted inAccountability, Surveillance and Privacy
Uber said it protects you from spying. Security sources say otherwise
Uber insists it has strict policies that prohibit employees from accessing users’ trip information, with limited exceptions. But five former Uber secu
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Posted inVoting
Ohio voting restrictions hit the elderly and homeless
Voting rights advocates say the laws are part of a decade-long effort that is likely to continue.
Posted inAccountability, Voting
Last-ditch effort to ease Ohio voting laws lands at Supreme Court
A Cleveland homeless organization and the Ohio Democratic Party are asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a ruling they warn will disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters in the battleground state during this presidential election.
Posted inWorkers’ Rights
The feds plan to fight discrimination by temp agencies
The temp industry is about to get some probably-unwanted attention from the federal agency in charge of cracking down on job discrimination.
Posted inWorkers’ Rights
Please fine us more, say New Jersey temp agencies
Some temp agencies operate without a license. One allegedly screened out black workers. Female temps face sexual harassment and lower pay. Many workers are undocumented immigrants, often too scared to speak up about abuse.
Posted inWorkers’ Rights
Discrimination is in fashion for New York retailers
Applicants with disabilities were much less likely to get a job, according to a study commissioned by Disability Rights New York.
Posted inWorkers’ Rights
The dark side of New Jersey’s temp industry just got some light
Death, discrimination and despair are among the obstacles faced by workers in New Jersey’s temp industry.
Posted inInequality, Workers’ Rights
There’s discrimination amid the dust on government asbestos projects
Demolition and asbestos removal isn’t glorious work. It’s also ripe for racial discrimination. Certain government contractors don’t want to hire black workers, and they don’t treat their predominantly Latino workforce well either, according to interviews and two government lawsuits.