Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference

The Tenth Annual National Law Students Workers’ Rights Conference, sponsored by The Peggy Browning Fund, will be held October 17 & 18, 2008, at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland. Registration is due by August 28 for students…

District Court Rejects NLRB’s 10(j) Motion

The NLRB has often been criticized for not seeking 10(j) injunctions enough (these are the discretionary injunctions that the NLRB can seek while a case is pending with the Board), but you can see why. In Timmins v. Narricot Industries,…

N.M. District Court Dismisses Claim of Associational Retaliation

Via Paul and the BNA comes a report on this United States District Court decision EEOC v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., in which Wal-Mart allegedly refused to hire two children of a woman who had filed a charge of discrimination with…

1000 Voices on Work and Family

I use a lot of video in my employment law class in large part because the class covers so many topics at such a superficial level that video can make a subject’s complexity resonate more effectively in a much shorter…

Goldberg on Union Democracy

Michael Goldberg (Widener) has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Suffolk U. L. Rev.) In the Cause of Union Democracy. Here’s an excerpt from the abstract: [The] article makes two broad[] points. First, it argues that the cause of…

Consumerism in Healthcare - is it working?

More Evidence Of Our Broken Immigration System

I suppose this comes as no surprise, but the Washington Post has an article putting some of the troubles with immigration enforcement in context. It chronicles ICE’s over ten-fold increase in the use of criminal, rather than administrative, arrests over…

Maryland Domestic Workers’ Political Victory

It’s apparently labor & employment day at the Washington Post, as they have another interesting article. This one discusses a grass-roots group of domestic workers in the Washington, DC area and their ability to get Montgomery County, MD to enact…

Sex as a Major Life Activity in the Cancer Context

The D.C. Circuit has held in Adams v. Rice (DC Cir 07/18/2008) that sexual relations is a major life activity under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 in a case involving a women with a record of breast cancer. And remember…

More Bad News On The Definition Of Discriminatory Soliciation Policies

The NLRB’s new rule in Register-Guard on how to determine when an employer unlawfully discriminates against protected activity was bad. Now the Second Circuit is piling on. In Salmon Run Shopping Center v. NLRB, the court adopted the Sixth Circuit’s…