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October 21, 2021
News & Commentary

William Greenlaw

Unionization efforts at Amazon have revived, this time from a group of workers in a Staten Island distribution center. The workers have already collected 1,700 signatures and say they will have enough support to initiate a unionization vote with the National Labor Relations Board by Monday. The organizers of the efforts are current and former […]

June 23, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

The house is poised to vote on bills aimed at fighting bias in the workplace. The first repeals a Trump-era U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rule. The rule concerns the EEOC’s conciliation process, which is a means of resolving disputes over allegations of workplace bias after the agency has determined an employer discriminated against an […]

Workplace Harassment and the Ministerial Exception

May 28, 2021 Rachel Casper

An in depth article on this topic by the author, titled “When Harassment at Work is Harassment at Church,” is forthcoming in The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Social Change, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (2021). “Ministerial employee of a religious organization” sounds niche: an imam at a mosque, a pastor at a church, a […]

The Strike Zone—May 24, 2021

May 24, 2021 Alex Blutman

Welcome to The Strike Zone, a new biweekly feature dedicated to labor and employment developments in the world of sports. To kickoff this initial installment, we turn first to the National Football League (“NFL”). In response to a concerted effort by the National Football League Players Association (“NFLPA”) to encourage players to forego voluntary offseason […]

Litigation Can Help Curb Algorithmic Discrimination in Hiring, Here’s How

Apr 7, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

As described in my last post, employers who use algorithmic decision systems (ADSs) in hiring reify past prejudices and systemic discrimination while coating the process in a veneer of objectivity. More troubling, mathematician and social activist Cathy O’Neil predicts these systems will disparately impact already marginalized communities, writing, “the privileged” will be “processed more by […]

March 15, 2021
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

The House will vote again this week on the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which expands the H-2A visa program and provide a path to legal status for undocumented agricultural workers. The bill also freezes farmworker wages for one year; increases would then be capped for most of the country at 3.25% per annum for the […]

Want to Understand American Priorities? Just Look at How Workplace Injuries are Taxed

Mar 5, 2021 Hannah Finnie

Let’s say someone’s physically injured on the job – we’ll call them Bob. Bob receives worker’s compensation for his injury, as well as an award for resulting emotional distress from that injury. According to the tax code, Bob can exclude the income he received from his worker’s compensation award and the emotional distress award from […]

Bostock’s Surprise Winner: Intersectional Age Claims

Feb 24, 2021 Maxwell Ulin

Susan, age 49, has a problem at the restaurant where she works. After waiting tables for years, she now faces termination after her boss deemed her and other older women servers “too old” to continue working there. At the same time, management has made no moves to fire older men waiters and continues to hire […]

December 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

The Trump administration has finalized its rule granting broader exemptions to religious institutions under President Obama’s executive order forbidding federal contractors from engaging in anti-LGBTQ discrimination. The new rule will go into effect on January 8. According to Washington Blade, the rule’s definition of a “religious institution” is vague enough to allow a wide variety […]

September 28, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

President Trump announced Saturday his intention to nominate federal appeals court Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett likens her judicial philosophy to that of the late Antonin Scalia, a notorious labor antagonist. Indeed, the solidification of the conservative majority on the high court is expected to result in considerable losses for organized […]

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October 21, 2021

June 23, 2021

Workplace Harassment and the Ministerial Exception

The Strike Zone—May 24, 2021

Litigation Can Help Curb Algorithmic Discrimination in Hiring, Here’s How

March 15, 2021

Want to Understand American Priorities? Just Look at How Workplace Injuries are Taxed

Bostock’s Surprise Winner: Intersectional Age Claims

December 8, 2020

September 28, 2020