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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 […]

Who’s Afraid of Collective Action?

Apr 1, 2016 Kelsey Bleiweiss

The law of the workplace is in the midst of a critical debate about collectivity. In case after case courts and the National Labor Relations Board have fought over the availability of collective action in two areas relevant to workers: class actions and class arbitration. (Union rights and collective bargaining represent a third area, but […]

Workplace Democracy Lite

Mar 31, 2016 Andrew Strom

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled “Workplace Democracy Catches On.” I was surprised by this headline given how undemocratic most workplaces are. But, when I read the article I was less surprised. It turns out that these workplaces are democracies the way North Korea is a democracy – they hold […]

Power At Work: Mass Incarceration’s Shadow

Mar 30, 2016 Noah Zatz

What does mass incarceration have to do with labor law? I suggest some new and disturbing answers in a report released earlier today in collaboration with colleagues at the UCLA Labor Center and A New Way of Life Reentry Project. We highlight the labor market implications when government demands that workers find and accept certain […]

Friedrichs Opinion

Mar 29, 2016 Juhyung Harold Lee

In case you missed it, the Supreme Court has handed down a 4-4 affirmance of the lower court’s opinion in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. The Court’s 1977 opinion in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education thus remains good law, and public-sector unions may continue to collect agency fees from nonmembers.

Senate Cafeteria Workers: Vindication for Some and a Continuing Fight for Others

Mar 23, 2016 Lauren Godles

In February, we reported that the DOL seemed like the best hope for Senate cafeteria workers who had been reclassified and denied the benefits they anticipated in their new contract with Restaurant Associates (RA). While the DOL investigation is ongoing, the workers have also made some promising advances through a top Capitol Administrator and a […]

Illinois HB 580: The Political Battle Over Interest Arbitration

Mar 23, 2016 Kelsey Bleiweiss

When it comes to labor news in Illinois, most attention is on the Chicago Teachers Union and its likely strike in April. But HB 580, a labor bill pending in Illinois, merits attention as well, as it has ignited fierce debate in the state for over a year. Though the future of the bill is […]

Fuzzy Math: Silicon Valley’s Diversity Statistics

Mar 22, 2016 Heidi Liu

Many articles have been written about a diversity crisis in Silicon Valley, perhaps due to tech firms’ initial resistance to releasing employee demographics. Enter Tracey Chou, an early Pinterest engineer, who launched a (still running) Google spreadsheet of the number of female hires. Around the same time, several of the largest tech companies released diversity […]

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 […]

When the Supreme Court Makes Labor Policy

Mar 14, 2016 Andrew Strom

Have you ever read a newspaper article (or the on-line equivalent) reporting on something that you know about first-hand? If you’re like me, you notice that there are invariably some factual errors. This is understandable – reporters tend to have tight deadlines, and they are often generalists who don’t possess detailed background knowledge about the […]

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