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Hannah Finnie is a writer in Washington, D.C. interested in the intersections of work and culture. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

The Sexism Behind Reality TV Performers’ Lack of Workers’ Rights

Jan 17, 2025 Hannah Finnie

Reality TV performers on the popular Netflix dating show “Love Is Blind” are used to being in the spotlight. Their storylines regularly generate national debates about love, betrayal, and commitment. But last month, they made national news for a different reason: labor rights. In response to labor and employment law claims filed by a former […]

August 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The Inflation Reduction Act appears to have enough support to pass both the House and Senate after Democrats brokered a deal with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). The bill, as currently written, has several provisions that will affect workers and businesses. It would create a minimum tax rate of 15% for corporations generating $1 billion or […]

July 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced yesterday that the U.S. asked Mexico to review whether workers at a facility in Mexico were denied the rights of free association and collective bargaining. The U.S. made this request under the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. This is the third time this […]

July 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

A new piece in the American Prospect hosts a conversation between Professor Benjamin Sachs and Professor Kate Andrias, about a law review article they recently co-authored. The conversation also features Steve Kest and Bob Kuttner dissecting the content of the article. The piece focuses on various ways to use the law to allow for the […]

June 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

The Government Accountability Office released a trio of reports about the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system and its successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The reports found that black applicants for UI were half as likely to receive benefits as white applicants. The reports also found that UI contributed to creating economic stability during […]

May 27, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

A new article from Harvard Law School professor Sharon Block argues that companies like Amazon and Starbucks need to listen to their workers, especially during a tight labor market when workers can easily find other work that more meets their needs. The Biden administration seems to be coming closer to announcing a decision on canceling […]

May 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

As Iman wrote earlier this week for OnLabor, the leaked Supreme Court draft decision in Dobbs earlier this week signals an all-but-certain overturning of Roe v. Wade and a constitutional abortion right, and is a workers’ rights’ issue. In response to the leaked draft, which is not yet final, some companies have announced that they […]

April 29, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

Delta Airlines announced this week it would begin paying flights attendants for time spent boarding the plane. Previously, flight attendants were not paid for their work helping board the plane until the plane’s door was closed, a practice flight attendants have derided. Delta is the first U.S. airline to begin compensating flight attendants for this […]

April 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

A Black contract worker at Tesla who alleged he was racially discriminated against at the California-based Tesla factory he worked at won his lawsuit, though a federal judge this week pared down the damages that a jury awarded him. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing is suing the same factory for racial discrimination […]

April 1, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted down President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, on a mostly party-line vote that got three Democrats to vote no alongside every Republican senator. The nominee was David Weil, who previously held the role under President Obama. He has written extensively about how modern […]

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