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Fighting Workplace Caste Discrimination: An Explainer — Part I

Mar 4, 2022 Priya Kamath

This post is the first of a two-part series that addresses caste discrimination in American workplaces. Part I, below, discusses the history of the Indian caste system and how caste discrimination may surface in American workplaces. Part II describes where caste may fit in existing anti-discrimination doctrine, proposals for reform, and recent developments. Setting the […]

February 14, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Starbucks workers across the United States are in the middle of a historic unionization wave. A Washington Post profile dives deep into the organizing victory at a single Starbucks store in Buffalo that started it all. The article not only tracks the events leading up to the first unionized Starbucks in the country — including the […]

January 27, 2022
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

As the Biden Administration continues to roll out its agenda, holdouts from the previous administration have continued political fights over unions. Currently, the Republican Party has a majority on the Federal Labor Relations Authority and is continuing to attempt to eliminate the federal immigration judges union. The union, the National Association of Immigration Judges, represents […]

The Sound of Discrimination: How Employment Law Handles Linguistic Profiling

Jan 26, 2022 Oscar Heanue

Discrimination on the basis of speech patterns — also called “linguistic profiling” — is an unfortunate reality in many workplaces. For employees who experience discrimination on the basis of an accent or dialect, it can be important to know what protections the law offers. What is Linguistic Profiling? Linguistic profiling occurs when a listener makes judgments […]

Criminal Records, Employment Discrimination, and the Limits of Back-End Solutions

Jan 20, 2022 Benjamin Levin

For decades, activists, advocates, and academics have decried mass incarceration and its harms. At least 70 million people in the United States have some form of record — a record that carries with it numerous collateral consequences and marks its bearer as a target for discrimination and exclusion. In the labor market, people with criminal […]

Workplace Discrimination in the Remote Environment

Dec 22, 2021 Julia Huang

More than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in roughly half of paid work hours being logged from home, many workers continue to opt into working remotely. In a survey of 33,250 participants conducted by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute between May 2020 and March 2021, 77.6% of those able to work […]

How the U.S. Women’s National Team and the U.S. Soccer Federation Can Reach an Agreement

Nov 17, 2021 Mike Klain

In July 2015, 26.7 million Americans tuned in to watch the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team win the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final – at the time the most watched soccer game in American history. The U.S. Soccer Federation, the body that governs the U.S. Men’s and Women’s national soccer programs, awarded the team a […]

The Players of the National Women’s Soccer League Meet Crisis with Action

Nov 12, 2021 Alex Blutman

In 2015, former National Women’s Soccer League player Mana Shim filed a misconduct complaint with the Portland Thorns regarding head coach Paul Riley. After an investigation, which was shared with the league, the team declined to renew Riley’s contract, although Riley was rehired elsewhere. Six years later, Riley has been dismissed from the league after […]

October 27, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

On Monday, New York City’s largest police union filed a lawsuit seeking to permit unvaccinated police officers to continue working—in violation of the city’s recently imposed vaccine mandate. Under that mandate, all municipal workers must receive at least one coronavirus vaccine dose by November. The suit represents just the latest effort on the part of […]

October 21, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Unionization efforts at Amazon have revived, this time from a group of workers in a Staten Island distribution center. The workers have already collected 1,700 signatures and say they will have enough support to initiate a unionization vote with the National Labor Relations Board by Monday. The organizers of the efforts are current and former […]

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Fighting Workplace Caste Discrimination: An Explainer — Part I

February 14, 2022

January 27, 2022

The Sound of Discrimination: How Employment Law Handles Linguistic Profiling

Criminal Records, Employment Discrimination, and the Limits of Back-End Solutions

Workplace Discrimination in the Remote Environment

How the U.S. Women’s National Team and the U.S. Soccer Federation Can Reach an Agreement

The Players of the National Women’s Soccer League Meet Crisis with Action

October 27, 2021

October 21, 2021