Emily Miller is a student at Harvard Law School.
Just in time for the election, JD Supra Labor and Employment has published a brief overview of the candidate’s views on workplace laws. Highlights of Clinton’s plans include her plan to increase the minimum wage to $12 an hour, improve collective bargaining rights, reward profit sharing arrangements, and support Wall Street reform. Trump likewise plans to increase the minimum wage to $10 an hour and has focused his economic platform on job creation. Read the full article here.
The New York Times noted the uncertain future of a federal policy which allows undocumented migrants to remain in the United States and apply to travel abroad and re-enter the United States without penalty. The program, known as deferred action, has allowed thousands of young people to visit their home countries since its inception by the Obama Administration in 2012. However, as the Times points out, the next President will have the power to repeal the program, leaving its future contingent on the outcome of today’s election. Politico also weighed in on the status of immigration plans, saying that if Hilary Clinton wins, a comprehensive immigration reform bill will likely be one of her first moves as President. Meanwhile, if Trump wins, the National Immigration Forum plans to “move into a very defensive posture… [to] pressure House Republicans, Senate Republicans … so that they [become] the wall between what Trump wants to do and what he can do.”
The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments on presidential power to make appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. The justices heard arguments over President Obama’s appointment of Lafe Solomon, who was appointed temporarily as Acting General Counsel without Senate approval. In 2014, the Supreme Court limited presidential powers by ruling that three of Obama’s 2013 NLRB appointments were invalid. As Reuters points out, the outcome of the case could have widespread impacts on the next president’s ability to make temporary appointments.
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July 14
More circuits weigh in on two-step certification; Uber challengers Seattle deactivation ordinance.
July 13
APWU and USPS ratify a new contract, ICE barred from racial profiling in Los Angeles, and the fight continues over the dismantling of NIOSH
July 11
Regional director orders election without Board quorum; 9th Circuit pauses injunction on Executive Order; Driverless car legislation in Massachusetts
July 10
Wisconsin Supreme Court holds UW Health nurses are not covered by Wisconsin’s Labor Peace Act; a district judge denies the request to stay an injunction pending appeal; the NFLPA appeals an arbitration decision.
July 9
the Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with mass firings; Secretary of Agriculture suggests Medicaid recipients replace deported migrant farmworkers; DHS ends TPS for Nicaragua and Honduras
July 8
In today’s news and commentary, Apple wins at the Fifth Circuit against the NLRB, Florida enacts a noncompete-friendly law, and complications with the No Tax on Tips in the Big Beautiful Bill. Apple won an appeal overturning a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision that the company violated labor law by coercively questioning an employee […]