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January 22, 2023
News & Commentary

Kevin Vazquez

As Bloomberg detailed on Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders, next in line to chair the powerful Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), has not given up on last year’s struggle to secure sick leave for railway workers. According to Bloomberg, Sanders is quietly planning to introduce legislation in the coming months that would require rail carriers […]

November 6, 2022
News & Commentary

Swap Agrawal

IAM members vote to accept a revised contract agreement with railroad companies; NLRB GC Abruzzo issues new memo on employers’ unlawful use of electronic surveillance and automated management technologies

What’s the Deal with Algorithmic Discrimination?

Mar 10, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

It’s no secret that the hiring process is rife with bias and discrimination. Hiring personnel are only human, after all, and their personal biases lead to both unintentional and intentional discrimination. But what if hiring personnel weren’t human? What if we could replace them with objective, data-driven algorithmic assessments? No more bias! Or at least […]

November 18, 2020
News & Commentary

Courtney Brunson

According to ABC News, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued more than $2.8 million in fines and 204 citations to companies in the last few months. These fines cover various COVID-19 related worker protection violations including failures by businesses to implement plans to protect workers from respiratory viruses, provide workers with PPE […]

May 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

In a recent online survey, the Groundwork Collaborative gauged national approval of potential ideas on how to mitigate the effects of COVID-19. Two of these proposals included increased, federally-mandated collaboration between 1) worker representatives and business leaders and 2) labor unions and business leaders to develop plans on how workplaces can better support their employees. […]

October 23, 2019
News & Commentary

Owen Senders

New York City’s Transport Workers Union Local 100 is holding a contest for the photo capturing the NYC train car with the most litter. The contest, whose winner will receive a $500 reward, is intended to draw attention to recent cuts to subway cleaner jobs. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reports that 10,000 members of […]

May 8, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

The biggest internationally coordinated strike by Lyft and Uber drivers is expected to take place today in major U.S. cities and in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South America. Driver demands vary by organizing group, but include calls for livable incomes, job security, and regulated fares. A study recently released by the Economic Policy Institute […]

February 13, 2018
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

On Monday, President Trump’s administration “proposed deep spending cuts” in the U.S. Labor Department’s budget for the second consecutive year. The administration requested a 21% budget reduction over current levels for fiscal year 2019. In particular, reductions in funding for job training and placement programs, training and employment service programs, and Job Corps programs for […]

October 17, 2017
News & Commentary

Feyi Lawoyin

In an interesting take, Austin Frakt at the New York Times, discusses how a healthy economy can shorten life spans—at least in the short term. According to Frakt, this counterintuitive finding (counterintuitive because economic growth promotes higher living standards) is attributable in large part to the increase in air pollution caused by increased production in the […]

After Work: Automation and Employment Law, Part Three

Aug 3, 2017 Cynthia Estlund

For over a century, workers and their organizations have struggled to raise labor standards and expand employee rights and benefits. Whatever the benefits to workers and the society, to any one private firm those laws represent a tax on employing human labor, and part of the calculus in decisions to contract out work or to replace people with machines. A logical though dispiriting response to plausible predictions of escalating net job losses would be to find ways to unburden the employment relationship.

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After Work: Automation and Employment Law, Part Three