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February 28, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Employers are divided on company-level vaccination policy, according to a New York Times survey published last week. Although the vast majority of large corporations plan to require vaccinations for at least some workers, there remains meaningful variation in terms of what these vaccine requirements will look like. Some employers will allow regular testing as an […]

ThedaCare v. Ascension: At-Will Employment, Healthcare, and the Private Provision of Public Goods

Feb 22, 2022 Hannah Hubbard

Wisconsin-based hospital group ThedaCare attracted national attention this January by filing for a temporary restraining order to prevent seven of its eleven-member interventional radiology specialty support team from assuming positions at fellow healthcare system Ascension. According to ThedaCare, loss of these employees would impede its ability to “provide care to trauma victims at ThedaCare’s Level […]

COVID-19 and Whistleblowers: The Expansion of Legislative Protections and Judicial Guidance

Feb 9, 2022 Melody Burke

On March 30, 2020, after complaining to management about the lack of personal protective equipment and distancing measures designed to ensure health and safety, an Amazon worker named Christian Smalls organized a warehouse-worker walkout to protest unsafe working conditions relating to the pandemic. That same day, he was fired. Throughout the pandemic, whistleblowers like Christian […]

January 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work appears here to stay. As infection rates have surged in recent weeks, many employers across the country have instructed their employees to continue working remotely, putting a halt to company return-to-office plans. And it appears increasingly likely that working from home will remain the long-term norm—at least […]

September 1, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

In Local 23, American Federation of Musicians v. NLRB, a D.C. Circuit panel overturned the National Labor Relations Board’s Trump-era legal rule for deciding when property owners can lawfully exclude employees of contractors. The rule, which was established in 2019, overturned two Obama-era precedents on off-duty contractor worker access: New York New York Hotel & Casino , and Simon DeBartolo […]

June 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

A brutal heat wave is endangering farmworkers and construction workers, as well as people living in poverty and confronting housing insecurity, ABC News and the New York Times report. Many workers in these sectors are undocumented, which makes them especially vulnerable to abusive labor practices. In cities like Phoenix, many of the construction workers who […]

June 3, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission plans to wage a multi-year, “multi-agency effort to combat worker misclassification,” according to its Fiscal Year 2022 White House budget proposal. Part of its proposal would specifically target racial disparities, focusing on “racial justice and systemic discrimination, pay equity, and the civil rights impact of the pandemic.” It also plans […]

February 2, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

“Normalcy is returning to Texas.” This bold anachronism was uttered today, in a small business in Central Texas, by the governor of the state. In his state of the state address, Greg Abbott announced a series of emergency authorizations to the Texas legislature, including “election integrity,” changes to bail bonds, improved broadband access, discouraging cities from […]

January 19, 2021
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

Jeanna Smialek of The New York Times recently analyzed the changing economic philosophy underlying Biden administration plans to return the job market back to low unemployment. Smialek looked at Biden’s appointments and statements from upcoming Biden administration officials and Fed officials to demonstrate a new willingness to engage in government spending and borrowing without past […]

January 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

All eyes are on the Georgia Senate run-off race. Democrat Raphael Warnock won his race against Republican Kelly Loeffler. The race between Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican David Perdue remains close. The nationwide rollout of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is not moving fast enough. State officials are pointing the finger at multiple targets: the […]

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