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Official U.S. guidance on federal minimum wage, overtime, recordkeeping and youth employment standards, with links to regulations and worker tools. Coverage and exemptions matter; state or local laws may provide additional protections.
Joint enforcement policy statement (September 2026) from New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, Commission on Human Rights and Taxi and Limousine Commission. It states that existing city consumer, human-rights, worker and for-hire-vehicle laws apply when businesses use AI or automated systems for hiring, pay, scheduling, housing screening, pricing or customer service, and that entities stay legally responsible for what a chatbot, AI agent or algorithm does. It announces no new legal standards.
New York City's worker and consumer protection agency found DoorDash unlawfully withheld pay from roughly 260,000 delivery workers between 2022 and 2026. The company agreed to a $131.5 million settlement announced 22 September 2026 — more than $115 million direct to workers, about $16 million in penalties — and admitted it did not comply with the city's pay rules. The deal also settles how on-call time between deliveries is calculated.
Why I recommend it: If you deliver in New York, this is money owed to you — payments were slated to begin this autumn, so check the city agency's own page for how to claim rather than waiting for an app notification. The wider lesson is that a city pay floor only works when someone audits it; this took a complaint process and years. The figures here are the city's and the company's own statements.
Archive and community documenting organizing efforts, walkouts, and worker advocacy inside the technology industry.
Why I recommend it: If your workplace concerns feel isolating, the case archive here shows how others organized and what actually happened next.
Reporting on rising union interest among technology workers facing layoffs, AI-driven restructuring, and reduced leverage.
Why I recommend it: Collective leverage is an option most tech workers were told to ignore. This is a useful primer on why that is changing.
