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Today’s News & Commentary — June 29, 2018

Jun 29, 2018 Jenny Braun

In Chicago, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled in favor of sandwich franchise Jimmy John’s, who argued that the company cannot be liable for the FLSA violations of its individual restaurants. Jimmy John’s may control mayonnaise dispensing techniques and proper fridge organization for each restaurant, but this type of control […]

June 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

On Monday, a former Tesla employee testified before the NLRB that the company stopped him from union organizing in February of last year. Michael Sanchez was reportedly asked to leave by security guards after distributing pro-union flyers to co-workers outside a company factory. The NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla in August 2017 after several […]

June 10, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Starting tomorrow, no Costco employee will earn below $14 an hour. While some locations already saw a $13.50 an hour minimum wage, the new mark, which nearly doubles the federal minimum of $7.25, signals that the “fight for $15” is edging forward, and the nation’s largest employers are taking it seriously. (Employees at these higher-minimum […]

June 3, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Boeing pursues an NLRB appeal of the unionization vote of a “micro unit” of plant workers in Charleston, South Carolina; before the vote, the NLRB had made an anti-union reversal a little more likely. As Bloomberg Law reported on Friday, an ethics official found Member William Emanuel (R) could participate in the Boeing case, despite […]

May 21, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

The Editorial Board of the New York Daily News yesterday drew attention to what has been a repeated “pilgrimage” in a stymied search for equal rights and fair treatment: the yearly trip of “some of New York State’s 100,000 field hands to the Capitol” to ask for rights to overtime pay, an unpaid weekly day […]

May 20, 2018
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Cornell University violated the National Labor Relations Act in March of 2017, but Cornell Graduate Students United (CGSU) will not receive a unionization revote, an independent arbitrator ruled last week. In an email sent twenty-four hours prior to the election to unionize 2500 graduate research and teaching assistants, Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the […]

#BossBabes and Employment Protections

May 7, 2018 Aubrey Sparks

A local woman has had a hard time finding work, but is desperate for income, and hears from a friend about a business opportunity which allows her to work from home. Excited about the prospect, she spends $99 in order to get a starter kit, which allows her to sell product to customers. Before she […]

Prosecutorial Power, Prisons, and the Problem with Wage Theft Criminalization: A Reply

Apr 30, 2018 Benjamin Levin

Thanks to Ben Sachs for allowing me space for a reply and to Terri Gerstein and David Seligman for taking the time to respond to my post. While I appreciate Gerstein and Seligman’s perspective, and I agree with them about the need to stop wage theft and protect workers, I have to part ways with […]

A Response to “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization”

Apr 20, 2018 Terri Gerstein and David Seligman

In his recent post, “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization,” Ben Levin argues that “the impulse to use criminal law for ‘progressive’ ends”—like combatting wage theft—“is dangerous; it serves to bolster the carceral state and all of its deep structural flaws.” We write from the perspectives of lawyers who have had extensive experience protecting workers’ rights, one […]

April 18, 2018
News & Commentary

Matthew Carrieri

Arizona teachers began voting on whether to strike on Tuesday afternoon. While Republican Governor Doug Ducey has agreed to a 20% pay raise for teachers by 2020, many teachers have criticized the plan for not including pay raises for support staff and for failing to address cuts to education funding over the past several years. […]

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Today’s News & Commentary — June 29, 2018

June 13, 2018

June 10, 2018

June 3, 2018

May 21, 2018

May 20, 2018

#BossBabes and Employment Protections

Prosecutorial Power, Prisons, and the Problem with Wage Theft Criminalization: A Reply

A Response to “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization”

April 18, 2018