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Nathaniel Levy is a student at Harvard Law School and a member of the Labor and Employment Lab.

Workplace Ableism Is a Problem for ADA Rights

Jun 19, 2019 Nathaniel Levy

Workplace ableism is hostile to employees with disabilities Imagine, if you will, a woman in her 30s with a masters degree who works for a healthcare research non-profit. She has Crohn’s disease and fibromyalgia, so the routine activities of a weekday can, at times, be tiring. After showering or getting dressed, for example, she sometimes […]

Garcetti’s Impact on Teachers

Jun 3, 2019 Nathaniel Levy

The Supreme Court’s First Amendment decision in Garcetti (2006), which concerned the speech of public employees, has since been applied in several cases concerning public school teachers. Although some have been correctly decided, the reasoning lower courts have adopted dangerously suggests that virtually all teacher speech in schools and to students—whether made in the classroom, […]

Does the First Amendment’s Ban on Political Patronage Apply to Appointed State Judges?

Apr 26, 2019 Nathaniel Levy

A recent Third Circuit decision applies the case law on public employees and the First Amendment to appointed state judges, and raises interesting questions about how to design a judicial selection system that both respects the First Amendment and promotes courts’ capacity to act as an independent check on their co-equal branches. The Delaware constitution […]

The Green New Deal Should Help Workers Already Hit by Climate Change

Feb 26, 2019 Nathaniel Levy

You don’t need to read through much of the Green New Deal (GND) to appreciate the scale of the change it seeks. Section (1)(a) of the non-binding resolution, introduced on February 7, declares that the federal government has a duty to “achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions through a fair and just transition for all communities […]

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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Workplace Ableism Is a Problem for ADA Rights

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