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Watchful AI: Artificial Intelligence and Job Quality in the Fissured Workplace

Sep 30, 2024 Samantha Schwartz

Image Credit: Max Gruber / Better Images of AI / Clickworker Abyss / CC-BY 4.0 AI has the potential to improve the quality of work, but right now, it seems to be making it worse. Why is that? And how can we ensure the proliferation of AI in the workplace has the benefits its proponents […]

The Shameful Defeat of David Weil’s Nomination

May 3, 2022 Sara Tsai

On March 30, 2022, David Weil’s nomination to head the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division was defeated in an unexpected 47–53 vote, marking the first time one of President Biden’s nominees was defeated in a floor vote. In an unexpected twist, three Democratic Senators — Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and Mark Kelly — joined the […]

April 29, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In his first speech to Congress yesterday, President Joe Biden laid out his administration’s sweeping policy agenda, outlined in two major legislative packages delivered to Congress. The latter of the two proposals, dubbed “The American Families Plan” (AFP), was released yesterday in anticipation of the speech. Among other provisions, the plan would provide up to […]

The NLRB’s Final Joint-Employer Rule Moves Labor Law Backwards

Feb 25, 2020 Jared Odessky

Tomorrow the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will formally publish a final rule codifying an employer-friendly test for determining whether an employer can escape liability for labor law violations by franchising and contracting out its operations. Under the new standard, a business can only be considered a “joint employer” under the National Labor Relations Act […]

August 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

On Saturday, several Democratic presidential candidates headed to Las Vegas for a forum hosted by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The candidates laid out their plans for the economy and labor law reform in front of an audience of AFSCME members. The forum brought a focus to labor issues that were […]

Protecting Worker Power with Antitrust

Feb 19, 2019 David Seligman and Brian Shearer

Workers principally have two ways to exercise power in the labor market: exit and voice (as labor scholar and former Department of Labor Administrator David Weil has explained). Labor law is concerned with worker voice, namely the right of workers to engage in concerted action to exercise power in their workplace. But worker exit is […]

CWS Surprise!

Jun 11, 2018 Sharon Block

Some of the hottest questions in labor policy over the past few years have been: how big is the “gig economy” or the “fissured workplace” or the “on-demand sector”? The Bureau of Labor Statistics gave its surprising answer to this question last week: smaller than it used to be. Some background: In 2016, the Department […]

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Watchful AI: Artificial Intelligence and Job Quality in the Fissured Workplace

The Shameful Defeat of David Weil’s Nomination

April 29, 2021

The NLRB’s Final Joint-Employer Rule Moves Labor Law Backwards

August 4, 2019

Protecting Worker Power with Antitrust

CWS Surprise!