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Explainer: What Does President Obama’s Equal Pay Day Executive Order Change?

Apr 21, 2014 Rachel Homer

On April 8, Equal Pay Day, President Obama signed two orders meant to promote gender equality in pay among federal contractors. We covered the story at the time. The first, Executive Order 13665, entitled “Non-Retaliation for Disclosure of Compensation Information,” prohibited federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their salary with coworkers. The second, […]

April 8, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Yesterday, as expected, the Senate passed a bill that would restore unemployment benefits to 2.8 million “long-term unemployed” workers, according to the Washington Post. The House is expected to vote down the bill, according to the New York Times. On April 1st, New York City’s paid sick leave law began to take effect, as the New York […]

April 3, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

In political news, yesterday in McCutcheon v. FEC the Supreme Court eliminated the overall limit on the amount of money any one person can give to a political candidate or party. The 5-4 decision broke along predictable conservative versus liberal lines. The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and SCOTUSblog all have coverage. The Los Angeles Times reports that 20 students were arrested […]

March 27, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Yesterday, the Chicago regional director of the NLRB ruled that football players at Northwestern are employees of the university, and are therefore entitled to unionize. Niko’s excellent post yesterday explained this new development. We previously covered the football player’s unionization drive, and some of the potential implications of NCAA unions. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times also […]

Olympics Aftermath: How Are Workers Being Treated in Sochi?

Mar 8, 2014 Rachel Homer

Russia spent $51 billion to build facilities for the Sochi Olympics. Much of the construction work was performed by at least 100,000 migrant workers who endured poor working and living conditions, and were never paid the promised wages for their work. (Workers were treated similarly poorly in the run-up to the 2008 summer games in […]

March 6, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

CNN Reports that employees at Bloomberg LP’s New Jersey campus are starting a unionization drive. Organizers hope they will join the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Local 32025. Bloomberg LP is a data and media company that publishes news reports and operates Bloomberg Law, a legal search engine. Bloomberg LP employs about 15,000 workers, approximately 700 of […]

February 6, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Yesterday, we covered the NLRB’s proposed new rule to expedite union elections. Stay tuned for a more in-depth post on the proposed rule later today. In international news, the New York Times reports that transit workers on the London underground began a 48-hour strike on Tuesday night to protest a plan to cut approximately 950 jobs. […]

January 23, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Continuing our ongoing coverage of Harris v. Quinn, the Los Angeles Times agrees with Jack Goldsmith’s analysis: Justice Scalia may be the swing vote. The Times writes, “[Justice Scalia] suggested he was not ready to switch course, noting the court has previously ruled that employees should not be allowed to reap the benefits of union […]

January 19, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

Last week, 350 members of Actors’ Equity, an actors’ union, meet to express their frustration with lower salaries for musicals on tour, according to the New York Times. Prior to 2004, contracts for actors in musicals on tour tended to be the same as those for actors on Broadway. In 2004, producers introduced tiered contracts, […]

January 9, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

As we move out of the holiday shopping season, there are several reminders that the economy is still struggling: According to the New York Times, Macy’s announced on Wednesday that it plans to lay off 2,500 employees. The most recent round of large-scale lay offs at Macy’s was in 2009, when Macy’s laid off 7,000 […]

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