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September 4, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), August saw a 1.4 million increase in nonfarm payroll employment, bringing the unemployment rate down to 8.4%. Yet, both the BLS and the New York Times note that this increase is much smaller than that which has occurred in past months. Moreover, the Times highlights that the […]

Weekend News & Commentary— August 16, 2020

Aug 16, 2020 Deanna Krokos

This week, Reveal completed their investigative series “American Rehab” that follows and describes how thousands of individuals receive “work therapy” instead of addiction treatment after entering drug rehabilitation centers. The series documents how these individuals work for little or no pay, often over 60 hours per week and with little or no training. Reveal further […]

Criminal Records Exclusion, “Rational Discrimination,” and Ban the Box

Jul 22, 2020 Noah Zatz

It is now well understood that employers discriminate against applicants with criminal records, but less is known about why they do so. This question is critical to designing appropriate laws and policies. New research shedding light on this issue has recently been published in Criminology and an accompanying policy brief. With my co-authors Naomi Sugie […]

June 29, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

This past Wednesday, a group of about 50 Uber drivers staged a protest outside Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s house. According to Forbes, the protesters blasted labor-friendly music and held up a banner reading, “A Thief Lives Here” in front of the $17 million mansion. The Uber drivers were protesting the company’s efforts to avoid complying […]

Employee Resource Groups Can Advance Workplace Equality. Should They Be Illegal?

Mar 22, 2020 Jared Odessky

Nearly sixty years after the enactment of Title VII, discrimination still pervades the American workplace. Meanwhile, white men continue to dominate the ranks of corporate management. To address (or to give the appearance of addressing) their lackluster workplace diversity, companies have increasingly turned to employee resource groups (ERGs). ERGs are internal organizations that serve to […]

Fighting Workplace Hairstyle Discrimination: An Explainer

Mar 12, 2020 Alisha Jarwala

In 2010, Chastity Jones applied for a customer service job at Catastrophe Management Solutions. Jones, who is African American, was selected for an interview, and she arrived at the office dressed in a business suit and wearing her hair in short dreadlocks. Jones was hired. Minutes later, her job offer was rescinded after she refused […]

June 19, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

On Friday, June 14, the NLRB overturned 38 years of precedent, holding in UPMC and SEIU, 368 NLRB No. 2 (June 14, 2019), that an employer has no duty to permit nonemployee union organizers to use public space on its property to solicit union support. The case involved two union representatives who entered a public […]

Is New Prime a Poison Pill for Title VII?

Jan 22, 2019 Benjamin Sachs and Adrienne Spiegel

The Supreme Court’s opinion in New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira is rightly being heralded as a victory for workers. The Court, after all, has finally found a mandatory arbitration agreement that it won’t enforce. But it seems odd that this Supreme Court would hand workers a victory, particularly in the arbitration context. And we think […]

October 26, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

While the U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief to the Supreme Court this week arguing that Title VII’s workplace discrimination protections do not extend explicitly to transgender or transitioning workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Acting Chair Victoria Lipnic said the agency has no plans to stop enforcing the law based on its more […]

Pay Equity in Massachusetts

Apr 10, 2018 Maura Healey

Today we recognize Equal Pay Day, symbolizing how far into the current year the average woman has to work to earn as much as her male colleagues in the prior year. Thanks to persistent gender wage gaps and gender discrimination, women in Massachusetts still only make about 84 cents for every dollar made by men.

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September 4, 2020

Weekend News & Commentary— August 16, 2020

Criminal Records Exclusion, “Rational Discrimination,” and Ban the Box

June 29, 2020

Employee Resource Groups Can Advance Workplace Equality. Should They Be Illegal?

Fighting Workplace Hairstyle Discrimination: An Explainer

June 19, 2019

Is New Prime a Poison Pill for Title VII?

October 26, 2018

Pay Equity in Massachusetts