In December, we reported that the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission established a pay formula for drivers of transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, and Juno. The formula would set a minimum pay standard of $17.22 an hour after expenses. ... More »
Civil unrest in France continued and even expanded this weekend, as French police arrested over a thousand protesters. A large police presence seemed better able to control the violence this weekend, the fourth weekend in a row in which the Yellow Vests (as pr... More »
The Eleventh Circuit revived a suit brought by the NAACP against the state of Alabama for its law pre-empting Birmingham’s minimum wage hike. The NAACP argued that the Alabama law intentionally discriminated against black workers, who would have benefitted dis... More »
During prohibition, one of Al Capone’s liquor suppliers was a young Canadian named Samuel Bronfman. A Jewish immigrant whose family fled czarist Russia, Bronfman started his rum-running career as the owner of a small hotel and mail-order whiskey distributor. T... More »
Ben Levin is Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. What role do private employers have to play in the criminal justice system? And, what does employment law doctrine have to do with mass incarceration? In Criminal Employment Law (forthcomi... More »
Early last year, Alabama passed a preemption law preventing any city in the state from, among other things, setting their own minimum wage. The law was perceived to be targeting Birmingham, the only city in Alabama to have enacted a minimum wage ordinance tha... More »
January 31st, 2019