April 14th 2021
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This spring, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is slated to generate nearly a billion dollars in revenue from its annual March Madness men’s basketball tournament. But only a small pinch of it (in the form of cost-of-attendance scholarships and...
Employment relationships have long been a central battleground in conflicts over religious freedom. This should not come as a surprise: entering into an employment relationship necessarily entails both employers and employees ceding certain freedoms at the...
It really, truly is infrastructure week this time. Yesterday, President Joe Biden unveiled his administration’s $2.5 trillion economic revitalization package, proposing massive new federal investments in transportation infrastructure, broadband,...
Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden delighted labor unions by dismissing the notoriously anti-union Peter Robb as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”). As Fred notes, Biden justified his unprecedented...
In a perhaps unlikely upswell of concerted worker activity, a group of junior investment bankers at Goldman Sachs banded together last week to demand better conditions on the job. In an eleven-page “Working Conditions Survey” amusingly presented on Goldman’s...
Last week, new, seasonally-unadjusted state unemployment claims totaled 746,496. The total number of claims surpassed those of the week prior by over 24,000, leading some to warn of a stalling labor market. A recent report from the California Policy Lab reinforces...
More than half of nonunion private-sector employees are subject to forced arbitration clauses. These clauses, many of which also include class action waivers, require that employees bring legal complaints through private arbitration—a setting that favors employers....
Should religious employers be able to discriminate against their transgender employees in the provision of health insurance? Recently, in Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Azar, a federal district court in North Dakota answered that question in the...
If you cast your mind back over the decades that have elapsed since March 2020, you might dimly remember the early-pandemic feeling of solidarity. While the American public has never been unanimous, about the pandemic or anything else, last spring there were “We’re...
As tens of millions of Americans await congressional action on coronavirus relief, talks among lawmakers have hit another snag. Sticking points remain over the extent of federal aid for state and local governments and the nature of lawmakers’ proposed...
The Trump administration has finalized its rule granting broader exemptions to religious institutions under President Obama's executive order forbidding federal contractors from engaging in anti-LGBTQ discrimination. The new rule will go into effect on January 8....
Union organizers may lose the ability to reach farmworkers on their work premises. The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in Cedar Point Nursery vs. Hassid to consider whether a California regulation that entitles organizers to enter agricultural...