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Sharon Block is a Professor of Practice and the Executive Director of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.

Deregistering Apprenticeships and Devaluing Accountability

Jun 16, 2017 Sharon Block

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order purporting to boost the Department’s apprenticeship program. In announcing his plans to make available more federal grant money for new apprenticeship programs, Trump also announced that he would diminish federal oversight of these new programs. Traditionally, DOL has required grantees to register their apprenticeship programs with DOL […]

Chipotle Lawsuit and the Overtime Rule

Jun 7, 2017 Sharon Block

A class of employees at Chipotle in New Jersey filed a lawsuit today seeking overtime pay under the Obama Administration’s rule that raised the overtime threshold to $47,476. The suit will test the scope of the injunction issued by a Texas district court in November. Chipotle had started paying the employees overtime but then stopped shortly […]

A Missed Opportunity: Worker Voice in Portable Benefits

Jun 1, 2017 Sharon Block

Last week, Senator Mark Warner and Rep. Suzan DelBene introduced the Portable Benefits for Independent Workers Pilot Program Act. The Act would authorize $20 million for competitive grants to states, local governments and nonprofits to fund pilot projects around portable benefits. The program aims to provide wide latitude for grantees to experiment with innovative new […]

Guest Post: Curtis Ellis Considered to Lead the Bureau of International Labor Affairs

May 15, 2017 Sharon Block

Bloomberg/BNA’s Ben Penn is reporting that the White House is considering appointing Curtis Ellis to lead the Bureau of International Labor Affairs at the Department of Labor. Ellis, a Steve Bannon associate, has written that he believes progressives “literally” want the death of white working people and that the Obama Administration sought to “liquidate” American […]

Guest Post: A Letter from Sharon Block

Mar 28, 2017 Sharon Block

Sharon Block is the Executive Director of Harvard University’s Labor and Worklife Program. She formerly served in the Obama Administration as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Labor and Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Labor. Dear Friends: Two months ago, I walked out of the Frances Perkins Building in […]

Guest Post: An Obama Executive Order That Trump Should Love

Feb 1, 2017 Sharon Block and Chris Lu

This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post. As former political appointees in the Obama administration’s Labor Department, we can think of few areas where we are in agreement with Donald Trump. In fact, we have fundamental differences with him about how to build an economy that works for everyone. Yet, we share his belief that […]

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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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Deregistering Apprenticeships and Devaluing Accountability

Chipotle Lawsuit and the Overtime Rule

A Missed Opportunity: Worker Voice in Portable Benefits

Guest Post: Curtis Ellis Considered to Lead the Bureau of International Labor Affairs

Guest Post: A Letter from Sharon Block

Guest Post: An Obama Executive Order That Trump Should Love