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The Fashion Industry Has a Health Problem. And That's a Labor Issue.

Mar 3, 2016 Sara Ziff

This post is the first installment in a series on labor rights and health and safety issues in the fashion industry. The model Amy Lemons, who started modeling women’s clothing when she was 12 years old, reached supermodel status when she scored the cover of Italian Vogue at age 14. But just a few years later, as […]

Guest Post: Should Workplace Supervisors Wear Body Cameras?

Aug 27, 2015 Andrew Strom

Andrew Strom is Associate General Counsel of SEIU Local 32BJ. In the wake of several high profile incidents of police misconduct, there is growing support for proposals to require police officers to wear body cameras when they interact with the public. This call for body cameras has resonated because in several high profile cases, bystanders happened […]

Protect Those Who Protect Our Food

Nov 13, 2014 Benjamin Sachs

Jake Gersen and I have an op-ed in today’s New York Times arguing that the law should recognize “food workers” as a legal category and then offer a set of heightened employment protections to this class of employees. (Jake is a professor at HLS and the founder and director of the Harvard Food Law Lab. Jake and […]

The Battle Against Black Lung Disease

Oct 10, 2014 Emily Cusick

For many years, black lung disease has been thought of as a relic of the past. The last great debate over black lung disease and occupational hazards for miners happened over 40 years ago, resulting in a federal statute that requires coal companies to compensate miners who contract black lung. The market’s movement away from […]

Guest Post: Truck Driver Rights and Recent California Rulings

Jul 31, 2014 Jon Zerolnick

Jon Zerolnick is the Research Director at LAANE, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, where he has authored a number of reports concerning port truck drivers. Truck drivers in California’s ports have been fighting for decades for rights most workers take for granted: the right to a minimum wage, the right to proper […]

New Disclosure Requirements Under the Black Lung Benefits Acts

Jun 7, 2014 Greg Baltz

On May 23, 2014, the Department of Labor announced that it would propose a new rule regarding the disclosure of medical evidence in mining compensation cases. The announcement came just a month after the Center for Public Integrity won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for its coverage of coal companies’ failure to disclose medical […]

House Committee Hearing on "OSHA's Regulatory Agenda"

Feb 3, 2014 Emily Cusick

On Tuesday, February 4 at 10:00 a.m., the House Education and the Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held a hearing entitled “OSHA’s Regulatory Agenda: Changing Long-Standing Policies Outside the Public Rulemaking Process.” The subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), stated in a media advisory today: “On numerous occasions the Obama administration has circumvented […]

House Labor Committee Members Raise Concerns about OSHA Intrusion into Family Farms

Jan 15, 2014 Emily Cusick

Yesterday, the House Education and Workforce Committee members raised concerns that OSHA has been intruding into family farms. In a letter to OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels, the committee requested documents surrounding guidance that unilaterally extends OSHA jurisdiction over farms with 10 or fewer employees. The Committee members note in their letter: “Now, without any […]

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The Fashion Industry Has a Health Problem. And That's a Labor Issue.

Guest Post: Should Workplace Supervisors Wear Body Cameras?

Protect Those Who Protect Our Food

The Battle Against Black Lung Disease

Guest Post: Truck Driver Rights and Recent California Rulings

New Disclosure Requirements Under the Black Lung Benefits Acts

House Committee Hearing on "OSHA's Regulatory Agenda"

House Labor Committee Members Raise Concerns about OSHA Intrusion into Family Farms