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Today’s News & Commentary—July 20, 2017

Jul 20, 2017 Raj Salhotra

According to the Washington Post, the U.S. Postal Service violated federal law by pressuring managers to approve employees’ requests for time off last year to campaign for Hilary Clinton. While federal workers can use their time to off to campaign or donate to candidates, by directing managers to approve the time off even though they […]

Weekend News & Commentary — July 15-16, 2017

Jul 16, 2017 Kamika Shaw

On Wednesday, nurses at Tufts Medical Center went on strike. This marks the first nurses’ strike in Boston in over 30 years and, according to the union, the largest in Boston’s history. Approximately 1,200 members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association participated. The strike comes on the heels of 15 months of failed contract negotiations between […]

Uber’s Passenger Acceptance Rules: More Evidence of Employee Status

Jul 14, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

I’ve been reading Alex Rosenblat’s excellent work on Uber, and want to emphasize one of her findings, a finding that is highly relevant to the employment question but one that we haven’t highlighted sufficiently on the blog. (For other coverage of Rosenblat’s findings, see here). In a paper co-authored by Luke Stark, Rosenblat describes what […]

More Labor Nominees and Appointments

Jun 23, 2017 Sharon Block

The pace of nominations and appointments to the Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, and other federal labor agencies is expected to continue to accelerate. Following the nominations earlier this week of Marvin Kaplan to the NLRB and Patrick Pizzella to be the Deputy Secretary of Labor, the White House announced the nomination ofKyle […]

You Call That a Hearing?

Jun 22, 2017 Andrew Strom

The Republicans have rightly been criticized for refusing to hold hearings on their bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but even when they do hold Congressional hearings, the only benefit to the public is to reveal how little they seem to care about fact-finding. Last week, the House of Representatives held a hearing on […]

June 22, 2017
News & Commentary

Maddy Finucane

In an effort to reduce the gender pay gap, Delaware has enacted a law prohibiting employers from screening applicants based on salary history. In doing so, Delaware joins Massachusetts, Oregon, New York City, and Philadelphia. Philadelphia’s ordinance is under fire for allegedly violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments and allegedly being overly broad. Meanwhile, advocates […]

Expanding the Workers’ Bill of Rights

May 31, 2017 Andrew Strom

I recently proposed a Workers’ Bill of Rights, and invited others to respond with suggestions for other rights that should be included. I did receive some helpful comments, and in response I would propose adding three additional rights to the ones I had previously proposed: A Right to Strike and Engage in Other Concerted Actions: […]

The Sixth Circuit Holds that Class Arbitration Waivers Are Prohibited Under the NLRA

May 30, 2017 Melissa Greenberg

This post is part of OnLabor’s continuing analysis of National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA. Bloomberg BNA reports that in National Labor Relations Board v. Alternative Entertainment, Inc., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit joins the Seventh and Ninth Circuits in upholding the NLRB’s position and finding that the National Labor […]

How Bad Could it Get (Legally)?

May 26, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

It’s a good moment to think creatively and expansively about how to revitalize the U.S. labor movement. This important work is underway, with contributions from academics, labor lawyers, union organizers, and others. Substantive debates about the future of labor law and labor organizing now populate the pages of publications ranging from the Yale Law Journal to Boston Review. […]

Pensions v 401(k)s: An Illinois Case Study

May 26, 2017 Kezmen Clifton

Illinois’ pension liability is estimated to stand at more than $130 billion. The reason behind Illinois’ ever-growing pension liability is one of debate. Some attribute the deficit to legislators voting on pension bills they didn’t fully understand. Others argue that politicians chose to kick the pension ball down the road to avoid raising taxes or […]

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Today’s News & Commentary—July 20, 2017

Weekend News & Commentary — July 15-16, 2017

Uber’s Passenger Acceptance Rules: More Evidence of Employee Status

More Labor Nominees and Appointments

You Call That a Hearing?

June 22, 2017

Expanding the Workers’ Bill of Rights

The Sixth Circuit Holds that Class Arbitration Waivers Are Prohibited Under the NLRA

How Bad Could it Get (Legally)?

Pensions v 401(k)s: An Illinois Case Study