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September 21, 2023
News & Commentary

Linh Tang

DHS policies for Venezuelan migrants; reduced arbitration fees under No Surprises Act; increasing religious objections to workplace DEI policies.

August 8, 2022
News & Commentary

Fred Wang

In today’s news and commentary, a major spending bill passes the Senate, while the labor market exceeds analyst expectations — and then some. More big news from Washington. The $740 billion climate, health-care, and tax bill that Kevin teed up over the weekend passed the Senate yesterday afternoon, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the […]

SAG-AFTRA’s New Influencer Agreement: What It Means for Influencers – and for Labor

Apr 14, 2021 Hannah Finnie

Meghan Markle, an American actress who married Prince Harry, highlighted in a recent interview with Oprah how being part of SAG-AFTRA, a union that represents people in the entertainment industry, gave her somewhere to turn for help – a resource she lacked when she went on to work for the royal family. Now, SAG-AFTRA is […]

Religious Employers Win Right to Discriminate Against Transgender Employees

Feb 18, 2021 Jenny Samuels

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 affirmative. The court held that this result was required by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), without acknowledging […]

November 13, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

With the number of coronavirus cases mounting, many American workers, faced with continued uncertainty, are looking to Congress for additional assistance. Yet, as Mackenzie reported on Monday, so far, legislators have been unable to reach an agreement about what the government will provide in the form of relief. Democrats have proposed $2.4 trillion in aid, an amount that they […]

October 11, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

Healthcare costs and coverage dominated the democratic party primary in 2020, with numerous plans and policies being considered. A new report adds color to that conversation, showing that in 2020, employer-sponsored healthcare became more expensive across the board. The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that annual family premiums increased by 4% this year, higher than the […]

October 2, 2020
News & Commentary

Alexandra Butler

The U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 661,000 nonfarm jobs were added in September, lowering the unemployment rate to 7.1%. Roughly half of those jobs added were found in the leisure and hospitality sector. Though the economic recovery has exceeded some economists’ expectations, many note that the number of jobs added has decreased from […]

June 10, 2020
News & Commentary

Leigh Thomas

Commentary continues to emerge about the Bureau of Labor Statistics May jobs report released on Friday. Ben Casselman writes for The New York Times that “No, the Jobs Report Wasn’t Rigged.” The bureau has indicated that it and the Census Bureau are investigating why the misclassification of some unemployed workers as “employed by absent from […]

January 17, 2020
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

Working-class candidates are making personal and financial sacrifices to run for office, despite campaign guidelines specifically intended to make it easier for them to quit their jobs and run. A 2002 Federal Election Commission rule permits candidates running in a general election to pay themselves salaries from their campaign contributions at a per-diem rate equal […]

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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September 21, 2023

August 8, 2022

SAG-AFTRA’s New Influencer Agreement: What It Means for Influencers – and for Labor

Religious Employers Win Right to Discriminate Against Transgender Employees

November 13, 2020

October 11, 2020

October 2, 2020

June 10, 2020

January 17, 2020

After Work: Automation and Employment Law, Part Three