September 21st 2021
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Yesterday, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum urging agency field staff to seek a more expansive set of remedies in settlement agreements with employers. As noted in the Board’s press release, the...
The tight labor market continues to produce gains for workers not seen for decades. On Saturday, The New York Times published an analysis of the shifts in bargaining power that have allowed job-seekers to demand higher wages and better work conditions—and to...
It really, truly is infrastructure week this time. Yesterday, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s $2.5 trillion economic revitalization package, proposing massive new federal investments in transportation infrastructure, broadband,...
More than half of nonunion private-sector employees are subject to forced arbitration clauses. These clauses, many of which also include class action waivers, require that employees bring legal complaints through private arbitration—a setting that favors employers....
President Biden is set to sign an executive order this morning bolstering the federal government’s “Buy American” policy. While order’s full text had not yet been released at the time of this post, CNN reported that its key provisions included increasing the...
The University of Kansas Graduate Teaching Assistant’s Coalition (GTAC) will join university students on a Labor Day strike today to demand the school close due to rising Covid-19 cases on campus. KU is one of a few major universities to allow its students to...
As unemployment benefits declined this week, lawmakers have remained at an impasse over the contents of Congress’s upcoming relief bill. Republicans thus far have offered to extend expanded unemployment benefits at a reduced $400 per week and have proposed...
The Department of Labor reported this morning that another 1.4 million Americans filed for state unemployment benefits in the last week. New numbers mark the first increase in the weekly tally in the past three months. In addition, about 975,000 workers not...
I recently wrote about how the Trump National Labor Relations Board has allowed employers to fire workers for urging their co-workers to vote for unionization during working time. On the heels of that decision, the Trump appointees gave employers another tool...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court released two landmark decisions striking at the heart of federal employment law. In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, No. 19–431, the Court ruled 7-2 to uphold two Trump administration rules expanding existing religious...
COVID-19 has laid bare the consequences of years of noncompliance with and underenforcement of employment laws. Misclassified workers have been denied paid sick time and leave to which they are entitled under a number of states’ laws. Because gig-companies have...
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Epic Systems Corp v. Lewis, which upheld employer use of class and collective action waivers, plaintiffs’ lawyers have turned to filing hundreds or thousands of simultaneous individual arbitrations against employers. This...