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May 19, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Yesterday, the Department of Labor announced the final overtime rule, which will take effect on December 1 this year, and employers will have six months to comply. The final rule raises the salary threshold from $455 per week to $913 per week, or $47,476 per year. The rule will also automatically update this salary threshold […]

May 5, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Earlier this week, the EEOC issued a fact sheet to employers nationwide, stating they must allow transgender employees access to the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity, Politico reports. The fact sheet explains denying an employee equal access to a “common restroom corresponding to the employee’s gender identity” constitutes sex discrimination under Title VII of […]

April 21, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument for Encino Motorcars v. Navarro, a dispute arising under the FLSA. There is an exception to the FLSA for any “salesman, partsman or mechanic primarily engaged in selling or servicing automobiles.” At issue in the case is whether service advisors at car dealerships–who work at service desks, prepare work orders, and […]

April 17, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Fight for $15 was a winner at the Democratic presidential debate on Thursday night. As Politico reports, when asked about their support for a $15 minimum wage bill, both Democratic candidates indicated their support. In a shift in Hillary Clinton’s platform, Clinton explained she would “set a national level of 12 and then urge any place that […]

April 7, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Yesterday, the New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor, Noam Scheiber, and Thomas Fuller, discussed their views about new family leave laws in California, New York, and companies across the country. Kantor attributes the recent momentum for paid parental leave to demographics–more women in the workforce–and innovation in legislative methods for creating the funding for parental leave. […]

March 24, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Yesterday, the Labor Department released its long-awaited persuader rule, requiring public disclosure of any consultants employers hired to help persuade workers not to form a union or support a union’s collective bargaining position, the New York Times reports. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez explains the rule is necessary because in about 75% of organizing campaigns, employers hire […]

March 20, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

The New York Times reports that voters and workers believe international trade costs the American economy more jobs than it creates, a belief that has manifested itself in the polls over the last few weeks. Last month, Carrier announced it would be moving its factory, with all 1,400 jobs manufacturing furnaces and heating equipment, to Mexico. In Mexico, […]

March 10, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Opening statements are set to begin today in the McDonald’s hearing before an administrative law judge at the NLRB in New York, the Chicago Tribune reports. This hearing comes almost two years after the NLRB determined that McDonald’s could be held liable as joint employers for franchise operator labor law violations. On one side, the International Franchise […]

February 25, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit upheld a 2011 Labor Department rule prohibiting businesses from collecting tips given to waiters, casino dealers, or other service employees, to share with support staff, such as dishwashers, according to Politico and ABC News. This rule applies even if tipped employees are receiving minimum wage. Seven states have minimum wage statutes that […]

February 11, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Nash

Teachers in Los Angeles have voted to raise their membership dues, according to the Los Angeles Times. Union leaders explain the 30% increase in dues is needed to fight well-funded and non-union charter schools, and other challenges to the traditional public school system. Charter schools currently enroll about 101,000 students in the city. Public school funding […]

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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