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Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation

Dec 24, 2022 Benjamin Sachs

How the NLRB can promote state-level labor law innovation

August 30, 2020
News & Commentary

Deanna Krokos

This week, the Economic Policy Institute published an analysis of the growing role state attorneys general (AGs) play in enforcing workers’ rights. Authored by Terri Gerstein, who heads the State and Local Enforcement Project at Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, the report examines state enforcement actions since 2018, including initiatives that protect workers […]

Fighting Workplace Hairstyle Discrimination: An Explainer

Mar 12, 2020 Alisha Jarwala

In 2010, Chastity Jones applied for a customer service job at Catastrophe Management Solutions. Jones, who is African American, was selected for an interview, and she arrived at the office dressed in a business suit and wearing her hair in short dreadlocks. Jones was hired. Minutes later, her job offer was rescinded after she refused […]

May 27, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

On Friday Professor Sachs wrote for Vox to explain how the NFL’s new policy punishing players who kneel during the national anthem in protest of police brutality and racism violates labor law and likely the First Amendment. As Sejal summarized in her post, Professor Sachs’s labor law argument is two-fold: first, in announcing its policy unilaterally, […]

A Narrow Preemption Exception

Oct 23, 2017 Sharon Block

The Ninth Circuit issued a decision this week on whether the City of Los Angeles can include in its contracts with companies doing business at LAX a requirement that they enter into labor peace agreements or whether such a contract clause is preempted by the NLRA. Specifically, the city conditions licenses to provide services at […]

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Unpreemption: The NLRB’s Untapped Power to Authorize State Experimentation

August 30, 2020

Fighting Workplace Hairstyle Discrimination: An Explainer

May 27, 2018

A Narrow Preemption Exception