Weekend News & Commentary — May 19–20, 2018
Cornell University violated the National Labor Relations Act in March of 2017, but Cornell...
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Cornell University violated the National Labor Relations Act in March of 2017, but Cornell...
A local woman has had a hard time finding work, but is desperate for income, and hears from a...
Thanks to Ben Sachs for allowing me space for a reply and to Terri Gerstein and David Seligman...
In his recent post, “Rethinking Wage Theft Criminalization,” Ben Levin argues that “the impulse...
Arizona teachers began voting on whether to strike on Tuesday afternoon. While Republican...
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court decided Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro, one of those...
“Wage theft” is an evocative turn of phrase, but how literally should we take it?
Used to refer to employers underpaying workers or denying them compensation to which they are entitled, the phrase increasingly crops up in conversations about work law and policy. Scholars, activists, and politicians have leveraged its powerful rhetorical force: theft is a crime and thus invokes issues of moral culpability and wrongdoing.
n January 11, 2018, Jon Nash of Emory University School of Law and I submitted comments to the Department of Labor (“DOL”) on its proposed regulation regarding the freedom of employers that pay direct cash wages of at least the Federal minimum wage and do not take a tip credit to engage in the pooling of tips, even among employees who are not customarily and regularly tipped. We are also publishing a forthcoming article on the very subject of the proposed regulation, Samuel Estreicher & Jonathan Remy Nash, The Case for Tipping and Unrestricted Tip Pooling: Promoting Intrafirm Cooperation, 59 Boston College Law Review (Issue No.1, Jan. 2018). Our comments make the following principal points:
The Atlantic reports that the #metoo movement has yet to deliver justice for low-wage workers...
Tomorrow, the National Labor Relations Board will publish a Request for Information in the...
The Province of Ontario is testing the effects of a basic income program on poverty, reports...
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of North Carolina on behalf of the Farm Labor...