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Randon Herrera is a student at Harvard Law School.

Wrestler Misclassification: The WWE’s Continued Chokehold over Its Performers

Jul 3, 2019 Randon Herrera

For those who have yet to cue in, professional wrestling is fake—the conflicts are fabricated, the fights are choreographed, and the maneuvers are (in theory) designed to prevent injury. Yet, for anyone who has spent even a few minutes watching World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), it should come as no surprise that the dangers of professional […]

Weight-Based Discrimination: The State of the Law and Why it Should be Rethought

Jun 12, 2019 Randon Herrera

As it currently stands, Michigan is the only state in the union to explicitly prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of weight. That may change in the coming months, as a bill was recently filed in Massachusetts which seeks to ban weight-based employment discrimination. It is still too early to assess the likelihood of that […]

How ICE Is Undermining Undocumented Immigrants’ Employment Rights—and What States Are Doing in Response

May 28, 2019 Randon Herrera

In 2017, ICE agents reportedly showed up to labor dispute proceedings at the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) on two separate occasions in an attempt to arrest undocumented immigrant workers. Officials suspect that employers tipped off the agents. In theory, this kind of retaliation against undocumented immigrant workers trying to assert their labor […]

Uber, Overtime, and the Taxicab Exemption

May 6, 2019 Randon Herrera

As the debate over the employment status of Uber drivers continues, one employment benefit raises a set of questions not presented by the others: overtime pay. Uber has suggested that if it is forced to reclassify its drivers as employees, it will cap its drivers’ hours to escape having to pay time-and-a-half for overtime work. It […]

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Wrestler Misclassification: The WWE’s Continued Chokehold over Its Performers

Weight-Based Discrimination: The State of the Law and Why it Should be Rethought

How ICE Is Undermining Undocumented Immigrants’ Employment Rights—and What States Are Doing in Response

Uber, Overtime, and the Taxicab Exemption