Labor violations include unsafe working conditions, unfair wages, and exploitation of workers, leading to physical and psychological harm. These violations can cause severe injuries, chronic health issues, and even death to the workers. Furthermore, by undermining fair labor practices, these violations contribute to economic disparities, perpetuating cycles of poverty and social instability.
Worker Rights • Corporate Power • Racial Justice Home Depot vs. Black Lives Matter A $40 billion corporation fired a worker for writing three letters on an apron, and then convinced a federal court that was reasonable. Filed: November 6,…
Workers’ Rights / Labor Law Worked to the Bone, Paid for 40 Hours: How One Call Claims and TWIA Stripped Overtime from Hurricane Steve Harvey Workers EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 23-13205, 11th Cir. (Oct. 16, 2025) • 26 min read…
TL;DR Starbucks fired Hannah Whitbeck, a shift supervisor at their Ann Arbor, Michigan store, after she spent months openly organizing her coworkers into a union — and a federal court just confirmed that firing was illegal. Starbucks’s stated reason for…
TL;DR Bar Manager Randy Charlins at Logan Inn in New Hope, Pennsylvania helped himself to tip pool money that was supposed to go entirely to hourly bartenders and servers. Bartender Graham Lundeen filed a federal lawsuit under the Fair Labor…
TL;DR Eight workers at a Houston karaoke restaurant called Hungry Like the Wolf went on strike in September 2022 over unpaid extra duties and broken wage promises; the owner fired all of them two weeks later. The company, Hiran Management,…
TL;DR AllService Plumbing, a small Louisiana company, illegally fired three workers who supported a union drive in 2009, and an NLRB judge ordered them reinstated with full backpay plus compounding daily interest. The company never challenged the original ruling, the…
TL;DR A Puerto Rican engineer named Efrain Oliveras-Villafañe spent 29 years climbing the ranks at Baxter Healthcare, only to be pushed out in 2018–2019 after a new non-Hispanic, White VP allegedly ordered the removal of all senior Puerto Rican managers…
A Contractor Poisoned Homes. The EPA Let Them Buy Their Way Out. TL;DR Landmark Modernization Contractors, a remodeling company based in Rocklin, California, broke federal lead-paint safety laws that exist specifically to protect families and workers from one of the…
ERISA Breach Investigation How Intel Turned Employee Pensions into Private Equity Paydays Intel’s own retirement committee moved workers’ savings into high-fee hedge funds and private equity vehicles that served the company’s venture capital arm. The court let them walk. Here’s…
EvilCorporations.com • First Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 22-1394 • 66 min read Half the Pay for the Same Work: How Acadia Hospital Got Caught Cheating Women Psychologists Out of Decades of Stolen Wages TL;DR Acadia Hospital, a nonprofit in…