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September 11, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

In this weekend’s news and commentary, the National Labor Relations Board published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) to expand the number of business regarded as “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act, and a new report from the National Domestic Workers Alliance demonstrates that domestic workers are still struggling to make ends meet […]

Rebooting Joint-Employer with Presumptions — A Modest Proposal

Jul 7, 2022 Sachin S. Pandya, Kate Griffith and Andrew Elmore

Coming soon: The return of the fight over joint-employer doctrine. Earlier this year, the National Labor Relations Board announced that it plans to amend the current joint-employer rule that a Trump-era NLRB adopted to supplant a broader legal standard. Good. NLRA joint-employer doctrine needs a serious reboot. Here, we offer an idea: Add industry-specific rebuttable […]

February 25, 2022
News & Commentary

Tascha Shahriari-Parsa

Earlier this morning, Bloomberg Law reported that Joe Biden plans to nominate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Earlier this month, Brown’s first decision after her appointment to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down a 2020 rule by the Federal Labor Relations Authority to […]

Collecting Money is Too Hard for Workers Who Have Experienced Wage Theft

Jan 14, 2022 Jon Levitan

When I learned I would be joining the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau’s (HLAB) Wage-and-Hour practice, I was thrilled. HLAB is a student-staffed legal aid clinic, and the wage practice represents workers who have experienced wage theft or retaliation for asserting their rights to be properly paid. I came to law school to fight for workers’ […]

January 10, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

The Washington Post published an analysis of an underdiscussed dynamic in the pandemic labor market: the dramatic increase in employee resignations in the manufacturing sector. Part of the increase is attributable to the elevated Covid risk present in a job that inherently cannot be performed remotely. But, the Post explained, the larger driver of the […]

January 5, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work appears here to stay. As infection rates have surged in recent weeks, many employers across the country have instructed their employees to continue working remotely, putting a halt to company return-to-office plans. And it appears increasingly likely that working from home will remain the long-term norm—at least […]

December 13, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

Core Amazon policies and business practices have come under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Amazon warehouse collapse in Edwardsville, Illinois that killed six workers last Friday. For one, the incident raised concerns about Amazon’s reliance on contractor labor, an arrangement that enables the company to avoid liability for accidents, while inhibiting union organizing. According […]

The Strike Zone—October 11, 2021

Oct 11, 2021 Alex Blutman

On September 29, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo issued a memorandum outlining her position that student-athletes, or “Players at Academic Institutions,” are employees under the NLRA. “My intent in issuing this memo,” Abruzzo wrote, “is to help educate the public, especially Players at Academic Institutions, colleges and universities, athletic conferences, and the NCAA, about the […]

The Strike Zone—September 27, 2021

Sep 27, 2021 Alex Blutman

A couple of weeks after publishing an open letter requesting that the men’s and women’s national team’s unions agree to a plan that would equalize the FIFA World Cup prize money distributed to the federation, U.S. Soccer announced that it had offered the respective unions identical proposals for a new collective bargaining agreement. The U.S. […]

June 6, 2021
News & Commentary

Fred Messner

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 refuse positions with employers unwilling to provide them. According to the Times, a […]

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September 11, 2022

Rebooting Joint-Employer with Presumptions — A Modest Proposal

February 25, 2022

Collecting Money is Too Hard for Workers Who Have Experienced Wage Theft

January 10, 2022

January 5, 2022

December 13, 2021

The Strike Zone—October 11, 2021

The Strike Zone—September 27, 2021

June 6, 2021