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Federal Court Upholds New York’s Just Cause Protections for Fast Food Workers

May 9, 2022 Sarah Leadem

On February 11, 2022, the Southern District Court of New York preserved just cause protections for fast food workers in Restaurant Law Center v. City of New York. This decision lands a significant blow to the norm of at-will employment and is a boon to just cause advocacy in other cities and industries. The subject […]

February 13, 2022
News & Commentary

Nikita Rumsey

The New York Times published an exposé on Kroger, the U.S.’s largest supermarket chain and the fourth-largest employer in the Fortune 500, whose tremendous financial success during the pandemic has not translated into improved wages and working conditions for many of its employees. While Kroger, whose stock has risen about 36% over the past year, […]

September 30, 2021
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

In a report published yesterday, researchers at the UC Berkeley Labor Center found that Massachusetts rideshare drivers could earn well below the federal and state minimum wage under a proposed state ballot initiative pushed by ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft. The measure, filed with state authorities last month, claims to mandate an hourly pay standard […]

June 21, 2021
News & Commentary

Fran Swanson

A brutal heat wave is endangering farmworkers and construction workers, as well as people living in poverty and confronting housing insecurity, ABC News and the New York Times report. Many workers in these sectors are undocumented, which makes them especially vulnerable to abusive labor practices. In cities like Phoenix, many of the construction workers who […]

On Work: What It Does to Us and What We Can Do About It

May 17, 2021 Fred Wang

Echoing Marx, it was Mark Fisher who likened capitalism’s core nature to that of an “abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker… [where] the living flesh it converts into dead labour is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” For Fisher, the figure of the zombie represents today’s homo economicus—the human subject under capitalism […]

The Requirements for Notice of Termination and Just Cause in Canadian Employment Law

May 4, 2021 David Doorey

In a recent OnLabor post, Michael Migiel-Schwartz examined the growing movement to abolish at-will employment, the distinctly U.S. employment law doctrine that permits employers to terminate employees for no reason at all with no prior notice. Several months ago, Professors Kate Andrias and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez published a detailed report for the Roosevelt Institute arguing for […]

Fight for Just Cause: Start Local, Force the Impossible

Apr 28, 2021 Michael Migiel-Schwartz

In December New York City passed a law granting its 67,000 fast food workers “just cause” protections. The law, taking effect in July, mandates that the city’s fast food workers can no longer be fired “at will.” That New York’s fast food workers will enjoy greater job protections is indeed a victory. But the law […]

October 6, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

Workers at the New Yorker union have won their fight for a just cause provision. For the first time in the magazine’s 95 year history, its workers will not be at-will employees, and have a guarantee that they will only be disciplined or fired for cause. While negotiations for a final contract are ongoing, both […]

October 1, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday marked an eventful occasion for workers’ rights advocates in Sacramento, as California Governor Gavin Newsom moved on a number of major employment rights bills at his desk. Among other measures, Newsom signed legislation to require businesses of over 100 employees to track and report employee compensation based on race and gender. The new law, […]

A New Moment for Wrongful Discharge Law

Jul 16, 2020 Jared Odessky

At-will employment is out of favor. In recent polling from Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Data for Progress, and the Omidyar Network, a striking 68% of respondents said that employers should be limited in their discretion to fire workers, rejecting the default rule of near-unfettered control. In line with public opinion, momentum to replace the at-will rule is […]

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Federal Court Upholds New York’s Just Cause Protections for Fast Food Workers

February 13, 2022

September 30, 2021

June 21, 2021

On Work: What It Does to Us and What We Can Do About It

The Requirements for Notice of Termination and Just Cause in Canadian Employment Law

Fight for Just Cause: Start Local, Force the Impossible

October 6, 2020

October 1, 2020

A New Moment for Wrongful Discharge Law