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The Right to Disconnect: Emerging Issues and Ways to Overcome Them

Mar 30, 2022 Melody Burke

The blurring of the boundaries between work and life has been an issue plaguing workplaces for years. Even before the pandemic, digital technologies were impacting the confines of a workday to the office, creating an “on the clock” work culture that extended beyond the standard 9-to-5 workday. As observed by Dr. Kristeen Grant, Associate Professor […]

The Case for Unemployment Insurance for Incarcerated Workers

Mar 23, 2022 Isabelle Holt

Incarcerated workers harvest corn, peppers, and melons in Colorado, fight wildfires in California, clean the governor’s mansion in Nebraska, and manufacture everything from mattresses to body armor. Just like other employers, the Bureau of Prisons sets inmate-worker job descriptions, pay grades, and performance standards for federal prisons, and state prison systems do the same. Like […]

Farmworker Overtime Benefits

Mar 14, 2022 Sara Tsai

The Current Overtime Threshold for Farmworkers On January 28, 2022, the New York Farm Laborer Wage Board made a landmark decision to lower the current 60-hour overtime threshold for farm workers to 40 hours. Workers start earning time-and-a-half pay for hours worked in excess of the OT threshold. Beginning in 2024, the threshold would decrease […]

March 4, 2022
News & Commentary

Hannah Finnie

Despite company attempts to quash a unionizing effort, the first REI location in the U.S. has overwhelmingly voted to unionize. Eighty-eight workers at an REI in Manhattan voted in favor of unionizing, with 14 opposed. As previously mentioned on this blog, the outdoor/adventure retailer took somewhat of an odd stance against the union, given both […]

February 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Employers are divided on company-level vaccination policy, according to a New York Times survey published last week. Although the vast majority of large corporations plan to require vaccinations for at least some workers, there remains meaningful variation in terms of what these vaccine requirements will look like. Some employers will allow regular testing as an […]

The Aftereffects of IATSE’s Strike Authorization

Feb 3, 2022 Julia Huang

On January 29, 2022, postproduction staff at Vice Media ratified a new three-year agreement with the company by a 97% margin. These staff members are a part of Local 700, the Editors Guild of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). The union members secured 40-hour workweeks, down from 50 hours, and high pay […]

Collecting Money is Too Hard for Workers Who Have Experienced Wage Theft

Jan 14, 2022 Jon Levitan

When I learned I would be joining the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau’s (HLAB) Wage-and-Hour practice, I was thrilled. HLAB is a student-staffed legal aid clinic, and the wage practice represents workers who have experienced wage theft or retaliation for asserting their rights to be properly paid. I came to law school to fight for workers’ […]

Seven Chinese Construction Workers Sued a Saipan Casino and Won.

Dec 8, 2021 Qianfeng Lin

Migrant workers, especially indebted ones, are highly vulnerable to forced labor exploitation in the host country. Wang v. Gold Mantis is a case in which seven Chinese construction workers sued a casino in Saipan, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) for forced labor and human trafficking under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) […]

Want a More Representative Federal Workforce? Pay More Interns.

Dec 6, 2021 Jack Leahey

Over the summer, President Biden issued a lengthy Executive Order on “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.” The EO directs the federal government to revamp its personnel management practices—recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and retention—to develop a “workforce that reflects the diversity of the American people.” Biden’s EO is timely because the federal […]

All Is Not Fair in Work and Scheduling

Dec 3, 2021 Alex Blutman

In 2014, the NY Times published a profile of Jannette Navarro, a 22-year-old Starbucks barista and single mother whose unpredictable work schedule caused her intractable chaos: inconsistent childcare, housing insecurity, a pause on her degree, and a constant struggle to live on an inadequate income. The article spotlighted the many problems that schedule unpredictability—last-minute notices, […]

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OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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The Right to Disconnect: Emerging Issues and Ways to Overcome Them

The Case for Unemployment Insurance for Incarcerated Workers

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March 4, 2022

February 28, 2022

The Aftereffects of IATSE’s Strike Authorization

Collecting Money is Too Hard for Workers Who Have Experienced Wage Theft

Seven Chinese Construction Workers Sued a Saipan Casino and Won.

Want a More Representative Federal Workforce? Pay More Interns.

All Is Not Fair in Work and Scheduling