Weekend News & Commentary — April 7-8
The Washington Post reports that Target has agreed to a $3.74 million settlement with black and...
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The Washington Post reports that Target has agreed to a $3.74 million settlement with black and...
The Atlantic reports that the #metoo movement has yet to deliver justice for low-wage workers...
We are experiencing a watershed moment in relation to sexual harassment: boldface names fall...
The Province of Ontario is testing the effects of a basic income program on poverty, reports...
It seems like ages ago, but before the President starting telling NFL owners whom to fire, the...
With Vice President Pence staging a counterprotest and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones issuing...
French public sector workers across the nation's 9 main unions have engaged in another strike...
The Trump Administration's announcement that it plans to end DACA has understandably been the...
At the New York Times, Michael Corkery writes about the allies "Dreamers" find in the business...
The New York Times opinion page profiles unemployment "in black and white," examining the...
After Google terminated James Damore for his now infamous memo, he claimed that he was fired for concerted activities protected under the National Labor Relations Act (discussed in Part One) as well as for pointing out “potentially illegal policies/behavior.” This post examines whether Damore might have a claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for retaliation for opposing his employer’s (allegedly) discriminatory HR policies. (As noted in the first post, this analysis is inevitably premature, as further facts may come to light that could dramatically change these claims.)
In an article published in The Atlantic, Victor Tan Chen discusses the impact of the economy on...