*SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource management*
*APRIL 30, 2021*
*Title:* No College, No Problem. Some Employers Drop Degree Requirements to Diversify Staffs
*Source:* NPR
*Author:* Kirk Carapezza
*Date:* April 29, 2021
*Summary:* On a recent afternoon, Emily Knowles was testing out apps with her software development team, making sure they work properly. "This is something that I never thought would be possible," she said. That's in part, because the 23-year-old from Watertown, Mass., has some credits but she doesn't have a college degree. Knowles, a quality assurance analyst, is bi-racial. Both her parents are immigrants and they never went to college. And now Knowles is working in tech — a field dominated by highly-educated white and Asian men.
*Link:* https://n.pr/3e1QIRo
*Title:* Graduate Students are on Strike at N.Y.U., Long a Labor Battleground
*Source:* The New York Times
*Author:* Emma Goldberg
*Date:* April 30, 2021
*Summary:* N.Y.U.’s campus is in limbo as graduate students stop working, with their union demanding higher wages, more benefits and less police presence on campus.
*Link:* https://nyti.ms/334iy9a
*Title:* U.S. Labor Secretary Throws His Support Behind Classifying Gig Workers as Employees
*Source:* Reuters
*Author:* Nandita Bose
*Date:* April 29, 2021
*Summary:* A lot of gig workers in the United States should be classified as “employees” who deserve work benefits, President Biden’s labor secretary said on Thursday, suggesting a shift in policy that is likely to raise costs for companies that depend on contractors such as Uber and Lyft.
*Link:* https://reut.rs/2RfjNzD
*Title:* New York City Sues Chipotle, Alleging Hundreds of Thousands of Labor Law Violations
*Source:* CNN Business
*Author:* Danielle Wiener-Bronner
*Date:* April 29, 2021
*Summary:* New York City is suing Chipotle Mexican Grill, alleging that the company violated a law that requires fast food chains to give their employees more predictable, less hectic schedules. In a lawsuit filed this week, the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said that from the end of November 2017 through at least September 2019, workers experienced nearly 600,000 violations of the law.
*Link:* https://cnn.it/3u6JlOj
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