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Lauren Godles is a student at Harvard Law School.

January 18, 2017
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The confirmation hearing for Andrew Puzder, the President-Elect’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, has been scheduled for February 2. The hearing was initially set to happen yesterday, but was delayed due to a conflict with the hearing for Betsy DeVos, which did go forward last night. In the meantime, Puzder may be having second thoughts about the position, […]

January 4, 2017
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

Democratic representatives and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka shared a rare moment of unity with President Elect Trump during a press conference yesterday morning, in which they pledged to support Mr. Trump in revising NAFTA and other trade deals. During the conference, Trumka specifically called for tougher trade enforcement and the reworking of labor deals in NAFTA, while […]

December 14, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

After a particularly horrific week in Syria, which a UN official described as “a complete meltdown of humanity,” there is a bright spot to be found in Syrian immigrants who have made it to the U.S. The Center for American Progress reports that Syrian workers here are doing extremely well. Their median average wage is $16,000 […]

Overtime Rule Update: 5th Circuit Grants Expedited Review of Appeal

Dec 8, 2016 Lauren Godles

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has just granted the DOL’s motion for expedited briefing and oral argument in its appeal of the nationwide injunction issued against the Overtime Rule, despite opposition from the state attorneys general who filed the suit. The briefing schedule is even more accelerated than requested by DOL in its motion, in which it […]

December 7, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The legal battle over the Obama administration’s expanded overtime rule continues. Last Friday, the Department of Labor filed a motion in the Fifth Circuit, following the District Court’s nationwide preliminary injunction, seeking an expedited briefing schedule. The DOL petitioned that briefs be due February 7, 2017, and that oral arguments be scheduled soon after. On Monday, the […]

November 23, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

Yesterday, a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction against the Department of Labor’s overtime rule that increases the salary threshold of those eligible for overtime to $47,500. The judge, an Obama appointee, held that “the Department [of Labor] exceeds its delegated authority and ignores Congress’s intent by raising the minimum salary level such that it […]

November 9, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

Donald J. Trump will be the 45th President of the United States. In one of the biggest upsets in American political history, Trump defied the predictions of almost every major poll and eclipsed the 270 electoral college votes needed to win. Hillary Clinton, who conceded the race to her opponent via telephone early this morning, […]

October 26, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The Pentagon is forcing thousands of soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to repay enlistment bonuses granted to them a decade ago. The demands for repayment have surfaced in the wake of a 2011 audit of the California Guard that revealed “widespread overpayments” by officials struggling to meet enlistment quotas at the height of both wars. […]

October 23, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

The Hamilton Project released a series of new research papers last week related to the re-integration of formerly incarcerated people. In one of the papers, Jennifer Doleac proposes five principles for policy makers to adopt in order to increase access to the low-skill labor market for individuals with criminal records. These include an increase in work-readiness […]

September 28, 2016
News & Commentary

Lauren Godles

With only 40 days to go until the presidential election, hundreds of tech companies have announced that employees will get a paid company holiday on November 8. While most of these companies are located in San Francisco, others have offices nationwide, including Spotify, About.com, and Wikipedia. Participating employers hope to reverse the recent downward trend in voting […]

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