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Teachers’ Strikes: An Explainer

May 8, 2018 Feyi Lawoyin

For the past couple months, teachers’ strikes have featured prominently in national headlines. The first of these high-profile strikes began on February 22, 2018 when teachers across the state went out on strike. The strike, which protested low pay and high healthcare costs, has since inspired teachers’ strikes across the country, including in Arizona, Kentucky, […]

New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira

Apr 26, 2018 Feyi Lawoyin

At the end of February, the Supreme Court granted cert. in New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira. In so doing, the Court added to the list of cases that examine how and to what extent the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) applies in the employment context (see our coverage of Epic Systems). The FAA The FAA makes arbitration […]

April 10, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Today is equal pay day. The date each year symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. The National Committee on Pay Equity encourages people to wear red in honor of equal pay day. On Monday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Rizo v. […]

March 27, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

“Technical education struggles to gain funding traction,” Rafael Bernal writes at The Hill. Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs have received attention in light of concerns about the “skills gap” in the U.S. economy (which we’ve briefly covered here and here). The Strengthening Career Technical Education for the 21st Century Act would reauthorize, with slight changes, […]

March 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Last Friday, respondents filed a motion for reconsideration in the Hy-Brand case. As we’ve covered (here and here), the NLRB vacated its decision in Hy-Brand (thus restoring the Obama-era joint-employer standard) because a Board member had a conflict of interest and should have recused himself. The motion argues, among other things, that the Inspector General Report concluding […]

February 27, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Last week on the blog, we wrote about why the NLRB should withdraw the Hy-Brand decision (here and here)—in short, because a Board member who voted for the result, William Emanuel, should have recused himself (his former law firm represented one of the companies in the Browning-Ferris case). Hy-Brand overruled Browning-Ferris, thus reinstating a joint-employer standard under which […]

February 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

On Monday, President Trump’s administration “proposed deep spending cuts” in the U.S. Labor Department’s budget for the second consecutive year. The administration requested a 21% budget reduction over current levels for fiscal year 2019. In particular, reductions in funding for job training and placement programs, training and employment service programs, and Job Corps programs for […]

January 23, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

The government shutdown is over. Monday night, President Trump signed a spending bill ending the three-day shutdown. Senators reached agreement, reportedly with the help of a talking stick, after Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that it was his “intention” to address the status of “dreamers.” Some are skeptical, and disappointed that Senate Democrats retreated without holding […]

January 9, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

“Employers Brace for the Loss of an Immigrant Work Force,” says the New York Times. On Monday, the Trump administration announced that about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador would have to leave the U.S. by September 2019. Over 45,000 Haitian immigrants will have to leave the U.S. by July 2019. The article describes the bind that […]

December 26, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Jim Hackett, CEO of Ford Motor Company, apologized to Ford employees last week following accusations of sexual harassment in two Chicago plants to which the plants responded inadequately. Hackett published an open letter expressing a zero tolerance policy for workplace harassment. The letter was published in response to a New York Times profile of rampant misconduct […]

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