The New Yorker writes about the politics of the subminimum wage for restaurant servers. The story cites wage theft data from the Workplace Justice Lab@RU.
Monday, July 28, 2025
The New Yorker
WHYY talks to Hana Shepherd, a senior researcher in the Workplace Justice Lab@RU, about her new report on heat exposure in the service sector.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
WHYY
Rutgers Today writes about a new report co-authored by Hana Shepherd, a senior researcher in the Workplace Justice Lab@RU.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Rutgers Today
The Philadelphia Inquirer covers a Workplace Justice Lab@RU report on the shrinking number of federal wage and hour investigators, quoting Jake Barnes and Janice Fine.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The American Prospect mentions a Workplace Justice Lab@RU report, which finds that USDOL staff reductions, coupled with mass deportations, could worsen wage theft.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
The American Prospect
The Record covers a Workplace Justice Lab@RU report on the shrinking number of labor investigators and the growing risk of wage theft, quoting Jake Barnes and Janice Fine.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The Record
HuffPost writes about a Workplace Justice Lab@RU report, which finds that staffing in the U.S. Wage and Hour Division just hit a 52-year low.
Friday, May 30, 2025
HuffPost
A report by SMLR’s Workplace Justice Lab warns that staffing reductions at the U.S. Department of Labor, coupled with the recent crackdown on immigrant workers, could worsen America’s $13 billion wage theft problem.
Thursday, May 29, 2025
