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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 […]

Economic Inequality

Dec 2, 2015 Benjamin Sachs

As Brian Mahoney reports this morning, the Institute for Policy Studies has a new report out on economic inequality. Here’s one of the report’s staggering findings: America’s 20 wealthiest people — a group that could fit comfortably in one single Gulfstream G650 luxury jet – now own more wealth than the bottom half of the […]

Notable Decision — Professional Janitorial Services, Inc.

Nov 30, 2015 Abbey Q. Keister

Overview This post details a recent development in the jurisprudence of mandatory arbitration agreements that requires an employer’s mandatory arbitration policy to unambiguously communicate the fact that the policy does not prohibit employees from bringing any unfair labor charges in front of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). On November 24, 2015, a three-judge panel appointed by the […]

Why are Harris v. Quinn and Fast Food the Biggest Labor Developments of 2014?

Dec 18, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

The results of our Reader Poll show Harris v. Quinn topping the list, followed immediately by the fast food campaign, as the biggest labor developments of 2014. We asked a few readers to offer their views on why these developments ranked the highest. Below are reactions from Andy Stern (former President of SEIU and currently Senior […]

Reader Poll: The Results

Dec 18, 2014 Rachel Homer

The results of our reader poll are in! We asked: What were the biggest developments in labor law in the past year? Our readers answered that Harris v. Quinn and the fast food campaign are the biggest developments. We’ll have some discussion of these two topics, and why they are the most important, over the next few […]

Reader Poll: Closing at Noon Today!

Dec 18, 2014 Rachel Homer

Our reader poll on the biggest developments in labor law in the past year is closing at noon today — get your votes in now! And see what some labor leaders have chosen so far.

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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

Economic Inequality

Notable Decision — Professional Janitorial Services, Inc.

Why are Harris v. Quinn and Fast Food the Biggest Labor Developments of 2014?

Reader Poll: The Results

Reader Poll: Closing at Noon Today!