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January 29, 2023
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

Republican states challenge DOL's ESG rule, Ninth Circuit agrees to hear lawsuit challenging private prison labor

September 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Miriam Shestack

In today’s News and Commentary: the NLRB challenges an Amazon rule, Amazon promotes a former private prison exec to run its warehouse training program, continued delays for the Equal Rights Amendment, and no rehearing on workers’ ERISA claim against Oshkosh Corp. A complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board’s Brooklyn office on Tuesday said […]

Pension Funds: These Once Hyper-Safe Investors Are Going to the Moon

Mar 7, 2022 Chinmay G. Pandit

In a world overcome by the cryptocurrency frenzy, large public pension funds — historically known for their ultra-safe investing style — have just entered the chat. The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund, a pension fund for, as the name suggests, Houston’s firefighters, made news last October as the first American public pension plan to […]

October 14, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

A record 2.9% of U.S. workers left their jobs in August, marking the highest month-to-month quits rate of the century. According to a report released Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), some 4.2 million workers resigned from work, including over 1.6 million in the retail and hospitality industries. While quits remain disproportionately concentrated […]

July 4, 2021
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

As the Baltimore Sun reported, on Saturday a Baltimore judge issued a temporary restraining order requiring the state of Maryland to continue administering federal unemployment benefits, a day before the state was set to end the pandemic-related unemployment aid for tens of thousands of residents. With about 178,000 people still receiving jobless benefits as of […]

January 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday marked a momentous occasion in the nation’s history, as former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Kamala Harris were inaugurated president and vice president, respectively. Shortly after their swearing in, President Biden wasted little time carrying out his agenda, issuing 17 executive orders after the inaugural ceremony that included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Muslim ban, […]

June 14, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

The upcoming Supreme Court term could be “the term of ERISA,” according to Bloomberg. The justices have already agreed to hear two cases involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and could hear up to four. In Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma, the Court will decide when the clock starts for the three-year […]

Review of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder

Mar 11, 2019 Jared Odessky

Last Monday the Labor and Employment Action Project (LEAP) at Harvard Law School hosted David Webber, professor at Boston University School of Law, for a discussion of his book The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon. In difficult times for the labor movement, Webber offers some reason for hope. While union density […]

November 28, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

Employees of online retailers that are acquired by Walmart face significantly increased premiums for company-sponsored health coverage. As the New York Times reports, the health benefits Walmart provides to the employees of its online retail operations is inferior to those offered by its e-commerce competitors. Some worry that as Walmart expands into the e-commerce space, it could […]

May 5, 2017
News & Commentary

Jon Weinberg

Congress may be open to revisiting the classification of gig economy workers as employees or independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Per Bloomberg BNA, “the head of the House workforce committee May 3 told an audience of innovators that she would be open to updating the Great Depression-era Fair Labor Standards Act to better […]

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