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September 7, 2020
News & Commentary

Randon Herrera

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 return to campus for the fall term. The university has since […]

August 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

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 around $200 million in aid to state and local governments. Sensing the upper hand, Democrats have […]

July 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

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 qualified for state unemployment benefits signed up for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). The […]

Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

Jul 14, 2020 Andrew Strom

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 to silence workers. Last month, in California Commerce Club, Inc.,the NLRB held that where […]

July 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

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 exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer contraception mandate. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence […]

Effective Enforcement During COVID-19 and Beyond: Strengthening California’s Private Attorneys General Act

May 1, 2020 Jason Salgado

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 refused to pay taxes and provide wage information to unemployment insurance (UI) agencies, workers entitled […]

Collective Action Notice Requirements: The Next Hurdle in the Arbitration Fight

Apr 30, 2020 Alisha Jarwala

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 strategy can pressure companies to change arbitration policies or to settle claims, because large numbers of individual arbitrations […]

The Future of Gig Economy Drivers and Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

Mar 31, 2020 Tara Boghosian

With the economic uncertainty wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more urgent than ever that gig economy workers be recognized as employees with the attendant rights, protections, and benefits like sick leave. Mandatory arbitration agreements that prohibit class actions are arguably the greatest current barrier to gig workers vindicating their employment rights. Under the […]

February 13, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Organized labor is set to play a key role in the Democratic presidential nomination this year, and most candidates have taken note. Unions are far from unified around one candidate, however; while labor support helped power Bernie Sanders to victory in New Hampshire this week, Nevada’s powerful Culinary Workers Union released flyers this Tuesday warning […]

January 8, 2020
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

The New York Times reports that the American Federation of Musicians and Employers’ Pension Fund—the largest musicians’ pension plan in the United States—is seeking to cut benefits that have already been earned by thousands of musicians to prevent the plan from running out of money. The plan covers over 50,000 people, including Broadway musicians, orchestra […]

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September 7, 2020

August 6, 2020

July 23, 2020

Trump’s Labor Board to U.S. Workers: “Shut Up and Work”

July 9, 2020

Effective Enforcement During COVID-19 and Beyond: Strengthening California’s Private Attorneys General Act

Collective Action Notice Requirements: The Next Hurdle in the Arbitration Fight

The Future of Gig Economy Drivers and Mandatory Arbitration Agreements

February 13, 2020

January 8, 2020