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Prosecution of Workplace Health and Safety Violations: The Sentencing of Donald Blankenship

May 9, 2016 Melissa Greenberg

In April of this year, District Court Judge Irene C. Berger sentenced Donald Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy Company (Massey) to one year in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of $250,000 for conspiring to violate mine safety standards. Massey owned Upper Big Branch mine, where six years ago an explosion […]

The Modeling Industry Needs a Makeover. A Bill in CA Offers Hope.

Apr 5, 2016 Sara Ziff

A girl walks into a job interview. After engaging in some small talk with her prospective employer, she is asked to undress and perform a sexual act right then and there. Outrageously inappropriate? Yes. Illegal sexual harassment within the modeling industry? Sadly, not yet. A friend of mine who is a former model allegedly experienced […]

Is Trump's Modeling Agency Flouting Immigration and Employment Agency Law?

Mar 15, 2016 Sara Ziff

This post is part of a series on labor rights and health and safety issues in the fashion industry. Twenty-two year old Jamaican model Alexia Palmer is suing Donald Trump’s modeling agency, Trump Models, which she claims treated her “like a slave” since bringing her to New York at age 17. “I was very excited because all the […]

The Safe Haven That’s Not So Safe

Mar 8, 2016 Lauren Godles

The New York Times and This American Life recently collaborated to publish two harrowing accounts of Alan Pean, a hospital patient in Houston, Texas. Pean went to the hospital seeking medical attention during a manic episode and was held overnight. When he became delusional, singing and dancing naked in his room, the nurse called for […]

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 […]

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Prosecution of Workplace Health and Safety Violations: The Sentencing of Donald Blankenship

The Modeling Industry Needs a Makeover. A Bill in CA Offers Hope.

Is Trump's Modeling Agency Flouting Immigration and Employment Agency Law?

The Safe Haven That’s Not So Safe

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