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July 4, 2014
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Antonia Domingo

The Labor Department reported on Thursday that the U.S. added 288,000 jobs in June and that national unemployment has fallen to 6.1 percent. The New York Times reports that low-wage sectors, like retail and restaurants, also made gains. In a victory for Illinois public-sector unions, the state’s highest court ruled on Thursday that the Illinois […]

July 3, 2014
News & Commentary

Julina Guo

According to The Washington Post, more Americans are in part-time jobs today than before the recession. The U.S. government defines “part-time work” as jobs that average less than 35 hours per week. Although the economy made gains in the job market for the fifth month in a row, economists are now worried that the 26 […]

July 2, 2014
News & Commentary

Daniel Crossen

In an advisory opinion issued Monday, an independent hearing officer ruled that Los Angeles violated labor laws when it moved to roll back pension benefits for future city workers without negotiating with the unions who would represent those workers, reports the Los Angeles Times. The city argued that because the changes would only affect future workers, […]

July 1, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

Commentators continue to weigh the impact and scope of Harris v. Quinn. At OnLabor, Prof. Jack Goldsmith discusses the case here, and Prof. Ben Sachs discusses the case here. Elsewhere, commentary and symposia on Harris are available at the L.A. Times, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Slate, the Cato Institute, and SCOTUSblog. The New […]

June 30, 2014
News & Commentary

Greg Baltz

The Washington Post offers a brief summary of today’s impending Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court decision. The issue at stake is whether unions representing employees in local and state government jobs may deduct fees from the paychecks of non-union members in their bargaining unit. Politico, Reuters, and the Chicago Tribune feature commentary from Prof. Sachs. […]

June 29, 2014
News & Commentary

Antonia Domingo

The recent NLRB v. Noel Canning Supreme Court decision has caused a “scramble” as the National Labor Relations Board revisits hundreds of decisions, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Los Angeles Times opinion page calls the ruling “reasonable” and applauds Justice Breyer for “rightly reject[ing] the appeals court’s extreme approach.” The New York Times reports […]

June 27, 2014
News & Commentary

Rebecca Chang

The Supreme Court’s decision in NLRB v. Noel Canning yesterday affirmed the D.C. Circuit, finding that the President had exceeded his authority in 2012 when appointing three people to the National Labor Relations Board. During the 18 months that two of the three now-invalid appointees were seated, the NLRB decided 436 cases. The current board […]

June 26, 2014
News & Commentary

Rachel Homer

The Los Angeles Times reports that L.A. City Council members are pushing for new regulations to combat wage theft. The Times explains, “[a] UCLA study four years ago found that the vast majority of low-wage workers surveyed in Los Angeles County had suffered some kind of wage theft, steeper rates than in New York or […]

June 25, 2014
News & Commentary

Scott Hochberg

On the Wall Street Journal opinion page, Steve Caldeira (President of the International Franchise Association) argues that many of the new higher minimum wage ordinances are unfair to franchises. Caldeira writes that in Seattle, “at the request of the SEIU, the city council and mayor classified franchisees not as the small, locally owned businesses they […]

June 24, 2014
News & Commentary

Whitney Benns

Yesterday, The Chicago Tribune covered Sen. Dick Durbin’s announcement of the “Patriot Employer Tax Credit Act”, a bill that aims to rewards with carrots in the form of tax credits those companies that pay workers fair wages and provide good benefits, and gives the stick to corporations that take jobs out of the country, by […]

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