Maia Usui is a student at Harvard Law School.
Concerns continue to mount over Brexit. EU leaders are calling on Britain to make a speedy exit (“[T]his is not an amicable divorce,” said the European Commission president), but the consequences of its departure remain unclear. The Financial Times looks at what Brexit might mean for immigration, predicting greater barriers for immigrant workers. Many Leave campaigners have advocated for an immigration regime similar to Australia’s, which admits immigrants based on certain characteristics — language, qualifications, work experience — and enforces occupation-based quotas.
Meanwhile, in the United States, small steps are being taken to improve job opportunities for former prisoners. More than half of those released from prison will return within three years, without having found employment. The New York Times reports on an ambitious prison-to-work program in the Eastern District of Missouri and its recent successes matching former prisoners with the right employers.
Lastly, more businesses are starting to experiment with employee stock ownership programs (ESOPs), with now about 7,000 ESOPs nationwide. The New York Times explores the benefits of one such program at King Arthur Flour in Vermont, which has experienced significant growth since becoming 100% employee-owned — and which could become a model for other businesses, too.
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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 […]
July 7
LA economy deals with fallout from ICE raids; a new appeal challenges the NCAA antitrust settlement; and the EPA places dissenting employees on leave.
July 6
Municipal workers in Philadelphia continue to strike; Zohran Mamdani collects union endorsements; UFCW grocery workers in California and Colorado reach tentative agreements.