PlanSponsor.com has a NewsDash this morning about how younger workers (18-29) may prefer to be hourly workers than exempt, salaried workers: For many workers in the 18 to 29-year-old age group, being in an hourly job is just fine. According…
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Thanks to Dennis Walsh for pointing out to me this piece in the July 23rd BNA Daily Labor Report (subscription required) about a new General Counsel Memo by Ronald Meisburg about political activity by workers: National Labor Relations Board General…
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Paul M. Secunda (left), ‘The Longest Journey, With a First Step’: Bringing Coherence to Sovereignty and Jurisdictional Issues in Global Employee Benefits Law (123). Jeffrey M. Hirsch (right), Employee Collective Action in a Global Economy (57). Jonathan Zittrain, Ubiquitous Human…
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For reasons I do not understand, SSRN’s ranking of these papers is not available today. rb
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Anne Marie Lofaso (left), September Massacre: The Latest Battle in the War on Workers’ Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act (136). Arlen Specter (center) & Eric S. Nguyen (right), Representation Without Intimidation: Securing Workers’ Right to Choose Under the…
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Theodore Eisenberg (left) & Charlotte Lanvers (center), Summary Judgment Rates Over Time, Across Case Categories, and Across Districts: An Empirical Study of Three Large Federal Districts (120). Michelle A. Travis (right), Looking Back at the ADA Backlash: How the Americans…
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Ross Runkel brings to our attention a decision by the Fourth Circuit in NLRB v. Mullican Lumber (4th Cir. 7/25/08), in which the court held that the employer did not violate the NLRA in withdrawing recognition of a union. Here’s…
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BNA Daily Labor Report (subscription required) has a story about OSHA lowering the boom on a serious industrial accident: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposes an $8,777,500 fine against Imperial Sugar—the third-largest fine in OSHA history—in connection with combustible…
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We’ve posted before about some of the problems with politics infecting hiring at the Department of Justice. Now the DOJ’s own internal investigation has found that some of the hiring throughout the DOJ was unlawfully based on politics (the text…
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I’m live-blogging from the Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) conference in Palm Beach. Right now, I’m at the New Scholars Workshop on Religion and the Law. Keith Blair (Baltimore) just spoke on Praying for a Job: Why Employees Need…
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