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Puzder to Withdraw from Nomination for Secretary of Labor

Feb 15, 2017 Lauren Godles

The President’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Andrew Puzder, is expected to withdraw from consideration before his confirmation hearing tomorrow. With four firm Republican votes against him, with as many as twelve possible, top Republican Senators urged the White House to withdraw Puzder’s nomination. Puzder’s spokesperson has not yet released a statement. Read more from […]

Lawsuit Alleging Antitrust Violations Filed Against Puzder's Company

Feb 9, 2017 Lauren Godles

Yesterday, shift leaders at Carl’s Jr. filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and those similarly situated alleging various antitrust violations by Carl’s Jr. Restaurants and CKE, of which Andrew Puzder is CEO. The complaint was filed in California Superior Court. The complaint is based on a “no hire” policy extending to all CKE franchises, under which […]

Guest Post: An Obama Executive Order That Trump Should Love

Feb 1, 2017 Sharon Block and Chris Lu

This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post. As former political appointees in the Obama administration’s Labor Department, we can think of few areas where we are in agreement with Donald Trump. In fact, we have fundamental differences with him about how to build an economy that works for everyone. Yet, we share his belief that […]

Politics and the DOL Website

Jan 25, 2017 Catherine Fisk

I reported on Saturday that at the very moment Donald Trump was at the Capitol delivering his Inaugural Address promising a better life for the working class, a staffer was inside the Department of Labor taking information off the DOL website. The first to go was a report on efforts to promote LGBT inclusion in […]

Guest Post: How President Trump Could Surprise with Improvement for the NLRB and a Boost for the Middle Class

Jan 25, 2017 Charlie J. Morris

Charlie J. Morris is Professor Emeritus at the Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University. This is a piece whose unlikely outcome is based on wishful thinking. It’s what I want to believe, not what I really believe. But whether I’m right or wrong, the information that follows should prove useful for general understanding of […]

The New Regime

Jan 21, 2017 Catherine Fisk

President Trump’s first afternoon in office was short on major developments for labor rights. The big news was that shortly after noon, a U.S. Department of Labor webpage about LGBT rights suddenly disappeared from the government’s website. You can read the deleted report here. Now, a Google search on the DOL.gov site for LGBT produces […]

Regressive Federalism

Jan 11, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

As we approach January 20th, labor advocates and other progressives are placing their hopes in a handful of states and cities. The hope, as part of a “progressive federalism,” is that these states and cities will have the capacity to chart a course distinctly different from the one being pursued by the federal government. Among these promising localities is New […]

When They Talk About Joint Employers, Republicans Are Either Lying or Confused

Jan 10, 2017 Andrew Strom

Now that Republicans in Congress are about to get a President who will sign their bills into law, they are eager to overturn even the most modest pro-worker measures that President Obama’s appointees were able to implement. One of the top items on the chopping block is the “joint employer” standard that the NLRB announced […]

Thinking about a Third Category of Work in the Trump Years

Jan 2, 2017 Benjamin Sachs

During the last few years of the Obama Presidency, we saw a productive debate over the question of whether changes in the organization of work called for a new legal categorization of workers. In particular, the question was whether we need a third category, intermediate between “employee” and “independent contractor,” to capture the kinds of […]

Guest Post: Against Despair

Dec 2, 2016 Kate Andrias

Kate Andrias is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. This post is part of a series on Labor in the Trump Years. As others have written, including on this blog, the Trump presidency could be devastating for unions—and for workers generally. The administration is likely to oppose any increase to the […]

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