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Paid Leave in the Time of Coronavirus: Lessons from Texas

Mar 20, 2020 Vail Kohnert-Yount

On Wednesday, Congress passed the first widespread federal paid sick leave mandate within its coronavirus emergency relief package. Only a massive pandemic—current estimates predict, at a minimum, hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States—could convince Congress to enact even a temporary paid sick leave measure. Since 2011, states and cities have acted on […]

Neuro-Surveillance and the Right to be Human at Work

Feb 15, 2020 Valerio De Stefano

In 2018, the news reported that some assembly line workers had been asked to wear caps that monitor brain waves in order for managers to adjust the pace of production and workflows. Some observers raised doubts on the reliability of these tools, and even cast doubts on their actual functioning, but it is undeniable that […]

Clean Slate for Worker Power, Through a Canadian Lens

Feb 12, 2020 David Doorey

A new report from Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program entitled Clean Slate for Worker Power lays out a series of ambitious reforms that would help guide U.S. labor law into the 21st century with worker empowerment as a driving policy objective. Four themes emerge from the Report, which follows a two-year research period involving […]

Why the DOL Should Keep its Hands Off of Worker Centers

Nov 26, 2019 Kate Griffith and Leslie Gates

Recently Bloomberg reported that the Office of Labor Management Standards of the U.S. Department of Labor (the DOL) has reason to believe that the Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en La Lucha (CTUL) is a “labor organization” under the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The investigation is ongoing, but if the DOL’s […]

Law and the Future of Gig Work in California: Problems and Potentials (Part 2)

Sep 10, 2019 Veena Dubal and Sanjukta Paul

This is the second part of a two-part post on AB5. A concern that has been articulated about extending generally applicable labor regulation to the platform economy is that such regulation would benefit the big players while making it more difficult for smaller firms to compete. This argument is speculative at best. Instead, appropriate antitrust […]

Law and the Future of Gig Work in California: Problems and Potentials (Part 1)

Sep 9, 2019 Veena Dubal and Sanjukta Paul

Last week, a coalition of 75 professors from across the country sent a letter to California lawmakers in support of AB5. AB5, which will soon be voted on in the California Senate, codifies the legal standard articulated in Dynamex v. Superior Court (2018) and extends it to all California employment laws. In Dynamex, the Court created a presumption of employee status and set forth a simplified legal standard (“ABC” test) for an entity attempting to classify workers as independent contractors.

This May Be the Worst Trump NLRB Decision Yet

Aug 28, 2019 Andrew Strom

If you rank the Trump National Labor Relations Board decisions by multiplying poor reasoning by impact of the ruling, the decision issued last week in Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation may be the worst one yet. Bexar involves the rights of employees who work on property that is not owned by their own employer. […]

SEIU Conditions 2020 Presidential Endorsement on Demand for “Unions for All”

Aug 21, 2019 Nicole Berner and Dora Chen

Today in Milwaukee, the site of the upcoming Democratic National Convention, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry laid out our union’s bold vision for an inclusive labor law regime that would empower millions of workers to form unions and rebalance our economy away from entrenched corporate interests. SEIU members and the workers in the Fight for […]

Storm Clouds on the Horizon

Aug 12, 2019 Jonathan R. Harkavy

The upcoming Supreme Court term is already brimming with consequential employment law issues on its argument docket. But fair warning: There is little promise that the Court’s treatment of these issues will advance the cause of workplace justice or please current and retired working people. Indeed, the anodyne term just ended may have been a […]

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Paid Leave in the Time of Coronavirus: Lessons from Texas

Neuro-Surveillance and the Right to be Human at Work

Clean Slate for Worker Power, Through a Canadian Lens

Why the DOL Should Keep its Hands Off of Worker Centers

Law and the Future of Gig Work in California: Problems and Potentials (Part 2)

Law and the Future of Gig Work in California: Problems and Potentials (Part 1)

This May Be the Worst Trump NLRB Decision Yet

SEIU Conditions 2020 Presidential Endorsement on Demand for “Unions for All”

Storm Clouds on the Horizon

Alberta’s Newly Elected Government Looks to the U.S. for Inspiration on Labor Law Reform