Unpaid and unprotected: a volunteer on the 2020 Yang campaign sues for discrimination

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A volunteer on Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign is suing for discrimination and retaliation, alleging that after she spoke up about misogyny in campaign Facebook groups, she was denied opportunities for advancement. Now, Yang's lawyers are trying to get the case thrown out, arguing that because the volunteer, Erica Lee, was never hired as a paid staffer, she doesn't have the labor protections she's claiming.

If their argument prevails, any volunteer anywhere can be horrible sexually harassed, or the victim of horrible discrimination, and there would be no recourse," says Lee's lawyer, Vincent P. White. I don't know if anyone wants to live in that world. It's a horrific world that they're describing."

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