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April 1, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

The newest coronavirus projections from the White House paint a grim picture: the best case scenario predicts 100,000 to 240,000 fatalities in the United States. This scenario requires continued extensive social distancing: without community mitigation, 1.5 million to 2.2 million Americans could die. As a result, the President has instructed continued social distancing for an […]

March 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Courtney Brunson

Bloomberg News reported today that the Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is limiting the power of its General Counsel in deciding what types of discrimination suits it can bring against employers. One of these changes includes the creation of communication channels that members of the General Counsel Office must use to consult the Chair regarding the appropriateness […]

March 4, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Voters took to the polls in fourteen states for Super Tuesday yesterday. As The New York Times reports, former Vice President Joe Biden won big: winning in states across the South and in several states where he did not seriously campaign. Senator Bernie Sanders won prized delegates in California, along with Colorado, Utah, and his […]

February 28, 2020
News & Commentary

Ryan Gorman

Yesterday, a group of major unions filed a petition with the Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) asking the F.T.C. to investigate Amazon. The petition highlights a range of Amazon business practices that have received scrutiny over the past few years for the impacts such “anti-competitive” practices have had on Amazon’s workers, Amazon’s competitors, and its competitors’ […]

February 27, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board formally published a final rule revising the established test of joint-employer liability for labor violations. As Jared explained on Tuesday, the new rule replaces an Obama-era decision that allowed the board to consider businesses’ indirect or reserved control over workers as an independent basis for liability—as opposed to […]

The NLRB’s Final Joint-Employer Rule Moves Labor Law Backwards

Feb 25, 2020 Jared Odessky

Tomorrow the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will formally publish a final rule codifying an employer-friendly test for determining whether an employer can escape liability for labor law violations by franchising and contracting out its operations. Under the new standard, a business can only be considered a “joint employer” under the National Labor Relations Act […]

February 21, 2020
News & Commentary

Mackenzie Bouverat

What’s in labor news today? A cursory Google search gives the impression that organized labor is today plagued by fractious infighting. Indeed, there is no shortage of articles highlighting the apparent ideological divisions among labor unions in the face of a Democratic primary in which health care reform has been the subject of fierce debate. […]

February 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Jon Levitan

In a budget request released yesterday, the Trump Administration proposed to slash Department of Labor spending by 11% in fiscal year 2021. The National Labor Relations Board’s budget would be reduced by 10% and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s budget would fall by 7%. One agency that would get increased funds? The Office of Labor-Management […]

February 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Lolita DePalma

The labor market is in good shape. Employers added 225,000 jobs in January. A New York Times article delves into the experience of black workers, whose wages are finally rising after a year of stagnation. While the unemployment rate for black workers over the past year has been the lowest recorded, established structural barriers remain. […]

February 9, 2020
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

Yesterday John Myers at the Los Angeles Times profiled Lorena Gonzalez, the tenacious California assembly member behind AB5. The profile follows an almost-certain court victory for the pioneering law, which is aimed at curbing misclassification of workers in the gig economy. On Friday, Uber and Postmates urged a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction […]

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