Published August 21st, 2018 - Rachel Sandalow-Ash
North Carolina raised the minimum wage to $15/hour for around 10,000 state government and public university employees. Legislative budget-writers explained that this raise will help retain experienced state workers, who often leave their jobs for higher-payin... More »
Published April 25th, 2018 - Jyoti Jasrasaria
Today, Breached Podcast released a new episode exploring employment as a component of the social contract. The episode treats the NLRA as the foundation of the social contract between employees and employers and asks how changes in the nature of work provide ... More »
Published April 10th, 2018 - Michael Oswalt and César Rosado
As Sharon recently covered, in January the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel announced a proposal to overhaul the agency’s long-standing structure of local offices. Though some details remain sketchy, reports suggest that the idea is to consolid... More »
Published January 3rd, 2018 - Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block
By Sharon Block and Benjamin Sachs In September, we shared our plan to hold a symposium at Harvard Law on the question of whether it is time to end labor preemption. The symposium brought together leading labor law scholars and practitioners to wrestle with t... More »
Published December 21st, 2017 - Andrew Strom
While the media was focusing on the drama over the Republican tax bill, last week the new Republican majority on the National Labor Relations Board issued five decisions overturning precedents: UPMC, Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, The Boeing Company, Raythe... More »
Published December 19th, 2017 - Sharon Block
In recent years, the end of a National Labor Relations Board member’s term occasioned an odd death watch for controversial precedent. Last week, Board Chair Phil Miscimarra finished his term with a flurry of big decisions, including five cases that overturned... More »
Published October 27th, 2017 - Maddy Joseph
Uber faces a new employment discrimination lawsuit brought by three Latina software engineers who allege that the company discriminates against women and people of color in promotions and pay. Uber is the latest in a string of tech companies–from Google... More »
Published October 23rd, 2017 - Sharon Block
The Ninth Circuit issued a decision this week on whether the City of Los Angeles can include in its contracts with companies doing business at LAX a requirement that they enter into labor peace agreements or whether such a contract clause is preempted by the N... More »
Published October 20th, 2017 - Andrew Strom
While I agree with Ben that Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones violated the National Labor Relations Act when he threatened to bench players who refuse to stand for the national anthem, if the facts were slightly different the players would face a much starker c... More »
Published October 16th, 2017 - Sharon Block
In addition to many POTUS tweets, the controversy over NFL players’ national anthem protest has also generated a number of interesting labor law questions, about which Ben has written. A new issue arose, however, in a curious exchange in the Bloomberg Daily L... More »
Published October 13th, 2017 - Maddy Joseph
In New York City, more people are taking Uber than traditional yellow cabs, the New York Times reports. Uber’s growth has been fueled by new riders in the outer boroughs; a similar trend–new customers outside the city center–is also taking h... More »
Published October 12th, 2017 - Benjamin Sachs
On Sunday, Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, said he would bench players who did not stand during the national anthem. This threat was publicized nationally and applauded by President Trump. (In the last few hours, the President told Fox News that ... More »
August 21st, 2018