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Is There More Overtime Pay In Your Future? What You Need To Know About A New Biden Proposal

It could mean more than 3 million more workers are eligible for overtime pay.

By

Jessica Washington

Published

August 31, 2023
Business, Culture

Reclaiming Our Time? A New Bill Could Shorten the Work Week

A California rep wants to make your weekend a little longer

By

Angela Johnson

Published

March 15, 2023
Business, Culture

NYC’s New Pay Transparency Law Could Help Close Racial and Gender Pay Gaps

Starting today, employers must include a "good faith salary range" with job postings.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

November 1, 2022
Business, Culture

The Four-Day Work Week is Catching On Around the World, and I Am Here For It

As the COVID pandemic changed the way we live and work, more employees are looking for improved work-life balance.

By

Angela Johnson

Published

October 4, 2022
News, Race Matters

This Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, Black Female Workers Say Enough is Enough!

Experts say Black women and their families have less money to survive than their white male counterparts

By

Angela Johnson

Published

September 21, 2022
News

Biden Administration To Announce Steps Targeted To Close Gender and Racial Pay Gaps

Biden expected to use an executive order that limits access to federal workers' pay history to determine salaries.

By

Murjani Rawls

Published

March 15, 2022
Culture

This Is Your Yearly Reminder That Black Women Are Still Paid 37 Percent Less Than Their White Male Counterparts

Black Women's Equal Pay Day 2021 arrives 10 days earlier than in 2020, but Black women are still paid $.63 for every dollar a white man earns in the same role.

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

August 3, 2021
News

Black Man Who Was Forced to Work Without Pay by White Boss Should Get $546,000 in Compensation, Court Rules

This may be one of the most horrific stories that The Root has ever reported. For 23 years, Bobby Paul Edwards, who owned the J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, enslaved John Christopher Smith, an intellectually disabled Black man who Edwards beat and forced to work long hours for literally no pay. Smith worked 18…

By

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

Published

May 3, 2021
Beauty + Style

This Equal Pay Day, Black Women Leaders Warn That Without Action, the Gender Pay Gap Will Only Deepen

In a year where conversations about equality have largely been centered around race and political equity, it might’ve been easy to forget the ongoing issue of the gender pay gap, even as recent reports have shown that women have been disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the ongoing pandemic. In fact, an October 2020…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

March 24, 2021
Beauty + Style

For Equal Pay Day, Venus Williams Reminds Us 'Sexism Isn't a Women's Issue Any More Than Racism Is a Black Issue'

Venus Williams has earned her way to be one of the most privileged women in tennis (if not the world)—but even her privilege didn’t always add up to equal earnings. As the tennis legend wrote in an op-ed for British Vogue timed in tandem with Women’s Equal Pay Day on March 24, her own battle…

By

Maiysha Kai

Published

March 24, 2021