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October 12, 2022
News & Commentary

Sarah Leadem

DOL proposes new employee-classification rule; the President of the Los Angeles Labor Federation resigns; Amazon workers begin their union vote in Schodack, NY

October 9, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

NLRB judge: Starbucks illegally fired Michigan employee for union activity; Labor Sec'y Walsh pledges to help marijuana-pardon recipients; union organizing among undergrads on the rise

Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

Sep 27, 2022 Sharon Block

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the federal agencies charged with setting employment standards for the fair treatment of the nation’s workforce. Instead, the Federal Trade Commission made […]

August 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, workers at a Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan became the first to organize one of the chain’s 3,000 locations; U.S. Senator Bob Casey urged the Department of Labor to take action on the use of workplace surveillance technology, including by Amazon; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. […]

August 2, 2022
News & Commentary

Travis Lavenski

In today’s News & Commentary, OSHA fines two Family Dollar stores in Ohio, US railroad workers may be gearing up to strike, and a new Washington Post article discusses the impacts of inflation on Government workers. Two Ohio Family Dollar stores are each facing over $500,000 in fines, according to a Monday Department of Labor […]

July 18, 2022
News & Commentary

Nicholas Anway

In today’s news and commentary: a labor reporter analyzes the factors driving the recent spike in union organizing; workers increasingly pick up extra jobs to pay for gas and food; conflicting data may show early signs of a weakening labor market; restaurant industry employment lags behind pre-pandemic levels; and lagging enforcement of transit worker protections […]

July 15, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

In today’s news & commentary: DOL rulemaking on employee retention for changing federal contractors; pro-labor amendments passed in a House Defense bill; and both celebrations and limitations of a DOL policy offering protections to undocumented workers who file certain labor law complaints. Today, the DOL issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for a rule […]

July 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, the U.S. labor market proves resilient, experts look back on — and ahead at — President Biden’s pro-worker agenda, and union momentum reaches Chipotle. The latest Labor Department numbers describe a strong labor market, despite high inflation and rising interest rates. The U.S. economy added 372,000 jobs last month — much better than […]

July 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

A new piece in the American Prospect hosts a conversation between Professor Benjamin Sachs and Professor Kate Andrias, about a law review article they recently co-authored. The conversation also features Steve Kest and Bob Kuttner dissecting the content of the article. The piece focuses on various ways to use the law to allow for the […]

The Court’s “Major Questions Doctrine” Is a Canon of Deregulation — and Could Be Bad News for Labor

Jul 6, 2022 Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Last week, in West Virginia v. EPA, the Court concluded that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act when it sought to regulate carbon dioxide emissions through a cap-and-trade system. West Virginia already has the damaging effect of severely limiting the EPA’s ability to “respond to the most pressing […]

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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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Employing Lots of Law to Do “Employment Law”

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July 8, 2022

The Court’s “Major Questions Doctrine” Is a Canon of Deregulation — and Could Be Bad News for Labor