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Goldsmith on Online Student Writing

Oct 28, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

Jack has a great post up on Lawfare about online writing by law students. The piece reflects Jack’s thinking on: why students should write for the public; which kinds of student writing tend to work (and which don’t); how to write well for an online audience; and which kinds of audiences make sense for student writing. He […]

Guest Post: What Hillary Needs to Say About Trade

Sep 29, 2016 Katherine V.W. Stone

Katherine V.W. Stone is the Arjay and Frances Miller Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. She is the author of “From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace” (Cambridge Univ. Press) and “Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment” (with Harry Arthurs). (Russell Sage Foundation 2013). This post originally appeared in The […]

Frances McDormand and The Wooster Group Call Attention to "Fair Treatment for Theatre Labor"

Sep 6, 2016 Jon Weinberg

OnLabor is excited to share that a post from this summer, “Fair Treatment for Theatre Labor: A Right to Perform Plays,” has attracted the attention of the performing arts community. In a new video, noted actress Frances McDormand and members of The Wooster Group read from the post, which argues that “we should extend to theatre performers […]

Fair Treatment for Theatre Labor: A Right to Perform Plays

Jun 27, 2016 Catherine Fisk and Alisa Hartz

Catherine Fisk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine and an OnLabor Senior Contributor. Alisa Hartz is a staff attorney at Public Counsel Opportunity Under Law in Los Angeles and has a Ph.D. in comparative literature. Creative workers experience some of the same kinds of exploitation that other workers do: long […]

Andy Stern on Universal Basic Income

Jun 14, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

Andy Stern, former president of SEIU, released a book today in which he argues for a universal basic income in the United States. Raising the Floor focuses on the impact of new technologies on the labor market, a subject we’ve been covering here at OnLabor. Barbara Ehrenreich, in her review of the book, writes that “[w]hen a veteran labor […]

Class Bias on Display at the D.C. Circuit

May 26, 2016 Andrew Strom

When it comes to imposing remedies, the NLRB is as toothless as an infant. When an employer issues threats to its workers, or when it refuses to bargain with a newly certified union, the standard remedy is an order to cease and desist, plus a requirement that the employer post a notice assuring workers that […]

New OECD Study Finds Lower Job Threat from Robots

May 19, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

An important new paper published for the OECD predicts that robots and automation will impact far fewer jobs than the now-famous 47% number established by Frey & Osborne. The OECD paper estimates that 9% of jobs in the United States are at risk of automation. Nine percent is quite significant, but substantially different than the estimate of nearly 1-in-2 […]

The Free Speech Rights of Public Employees: Heffernan v. City of Paterson

May 11, 2016 Catherine Fisk and Erwin Chemerinsky

Catherine Fisk is Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine and an OnLabor Senior Contributor. Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Although some say the Roberts Court has been zealous in protecting First Amendment rights, it has ruled against government […]

Use and Abuse of the Non-Compete: When Employers Utilize Non-Compete Clauses to Undercut Vulnerable Workers

May 3, 2016 Hannah Belitz

The use of non-compete clauses in the United States is fairly widespread. Recent research suggests that 18 percent of all workers, or nearly 30 million people, are covered by non-compete agreements. These agreements are, at least in theory, primarily intended to protect trade secrets: they prevent employees from taking proprietary information to a firm’s competitor. […]

Enforcing Labor Standards Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership

Feb 29, 2016 Vivian Dong

The United States Trade Representative touts the Trans Pacific Partnership as having “the strongest protections for workers of any trade agreement in history.” On paper at least, the Trade Representative is probably correct about the TPP. The TPP requires that all parties to the agreement adopt and maintain laws recognizing the International Labor Organization’s fundamental […]

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Goldsmith on Online Student Writing

Guest Post: What Hillary Needs to Say About Trade

Frances McDormand and The Wooster Group Call Attention to "Fair Treatment for Theatre Labor"

Fair Treatment for Theatre Labor: A Right to Perform Plays

Andy Stern on Universal Basic Income

Class Bias on Display at the D.C. Circuit

New OECD Study Finds Lower Job Threat from Robots

The Free Speech Rights of Public Employees: Heffernan v. City of Paterson

Use and Abuse of the Non-Compete: When Employers Utilize Non-Compete Clauses to Undercut Vulnerable Workers

Enforcing Labor Standards Under The Trans-Pacific Partnership