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Full-Text Articles in Law
Rigid Rideshares And The Driver Flexibility Myth, Seth Goldstein
Rigid Rideshares And The Driver Flexibility Myth, Seth Goldstein
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
In 2018, Uber, Lyft, and similar organizations spent $224 million to ensure that Proposition 22 ("Prop. 22") passed in California, reclassifying gig workers as independent contractors, but with some rights not typically guaranteed to independent contractors. Through the most expensive ballot measure in U.S. history at that point, Uber and Lyft argued that to preserve flexibility for drivers, they must remain as independent contractors under the law. However, Prop. 22 did not increase driver benefits nor provide any assurances of flexibility. Many workers in California "regret casting their ballots for Prop. 22" and "feel deceived" by Uber and Lyft. …
Whither The Wagner Act: On The Waning View Of Labor Law And Leviathan, Brandon R. Magner
Whither The Wagner Act: On The Waning View Of Labor Law And Leviathan, Brandon R. Magner
Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal
The National Labor Relations Act’s (NLRA) well-documented weaknesses in substance and enforcement, combined with legislators’ inability to adapt the Act to the modern economy, have understandably created many cynics in the field of labor law. For several decades, legal scholars have almost unanimously derided the NLRA and the agency which administers it, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), for failing to prevent rampant anti-union conduct by employers and the collapse of the union formation process through the Board’s election machinery. This “ossification” of the law, as it has come to be known, is considered to be a key contributor to …
Releasing The Captives: How The National Labor Relations Board Can Correct The Anomalous Captive Audience Meeting Doctrine, Adam J. Drapcho
Releasing The Captives: How The National Labor Relations Board Can Correct The Anomalous Captive Audience Meeting Doctrine, Adam J. Drapcho
University of Cincinnati Law Review
No abstract provided.
All Along The New Watchtower: Artificial Intelligence, Workplace Monitoring, Automation, And The National Labor Relations Act, Bradford J. Kelley
All Along The New Watchtower: Artificial Intelligence, Workplace Monitoring, Automation, And The National Labor Relations Act, Bradford J. Kelley
Marquette Law Review
Recent technological advances have dramatically expanded employers’ ability to electronically monitor and manage employees within the workplace. New technologies, including tools powered by artificial intelligence, are being used in the workplace for a wide range of purposes such as measuring employee work rates, preventing theft, and monitoring drivers with GPS tracking devices. These technologies offer potential solutions for many companies that may increase efficiencies and support operations, dramatically reduce human bias, prevent discrimination and harassment, and improve worker health and safety. Despite these potential benefits, the use of these technologies may raise concerns under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), …
Compelled Unionism In The Private Sector After Janus: Why Unions Should Not Profit From Dissenting Employees, Giovanna Bonafede
Compelled Unionism In The Private Sector After Janus: Why Unions Should Not Profit From Dissenting Employees, Giovanna Bonafede
Catholic University Law Review
This Note examines the impact of the 2018 landmark labor law case Janus v. AFSCME. Janus held it unconstitutional under the First Amendment to require public sector employees to pay fees to a union to which they are not a member. The Supreme Court based their decision on the idea that compelling public employees to subsidize union speech to which they disagreed violated their free speech rights. The author argues that the Court’s holding in Janus should be extended to protect the free speech rights of private sector employees through a finding of state action in the private unionized …
Rules In The Workplace: Does The Nlra Protect Employees’ Ability To Record Working Conditions?, Avery Lubbes
Rules In The Workplace: Does The Nlra Protect Employees’ Ability To Record Working Conditions?, Avery Lubbes
SLU Law Journal Online
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, some employees have recorded videos at work and posted them online to express their disagreement with working conditions. The NLRB recently created a new standard of review for evaluation of employer work rules, and the Board upheld an employer's "no-camera" rule, which included cell phones capable of taking photographs and videos. In this article, Avery Lubbes analyzes whether the Biden Board overturn this ruling as violative of labor rights.
License To Offend: How The Nlra Shields Perpetrators Of Discrimination In The Workplace, Molly Gibbons
License To Offend: How The Nlra Shields Perpetrators Of Discrimination In The Workplace, Molly Gibbons
Washington Law Review
Congress established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) to enforce the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act) and ensure fair labor practices in workplaces across the United States. The NLRA protects employees from discipline while engaging in union activity. Under the NLRA, employers and unions must collectively bargain in good faith. Either party may only walk away from the table when another party’s conduct makes good faith bargaining impossible. However, the NLRB’s determination of what conduct constitutes bad faith bargaining and protected union speech is inconsistent with federal anti- discrimination laws. This discrepancy means employers …
Union Rights For All: Towards Sectoral Bargaining In The United States, Kate Andrias
Union Rights For All: Towards Sectoral Bargaining In The United States, Kate Andrias
Book Chapters
American labor unions have collapsed. Having once bargained for more than a third of American workers, unions now represent only about 6 percent of the private sector workforce. In the wake of new statutory and constitutional limitations, their presence in the public sector is shrinking as well. As unions have declined, the United States has lost a key equalizing institution in politics and the economy, INdeed, economic inequality is at its highest point since the Gilded Age, when unionization rates were similarly low. With the weakening of unions, the United States has also lost a key mechanism for protecting against …
Arbitration Agreements – What Is The Employee Actually Signing Up For?, Kennedy Poe
Arbitration Agreements – What Is The Employee Actually Signing Up For?, Kennedy Poe
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
This note will examine the various effects and implications the Supreme Court’s decision concerning the legality of class action waivers within employee-employer contracts will have on employers, employees, and the contracts made between them. Part I will identify class action waivers within an employment contract’s arbitration agreement and will further elaborate upon the legal implications of such waivers being present in the contract. Part II will then discuss the history of the NLRA and assess its present-day role in employee–employer contract formation, in order to provide clarity as to the dispute that has arisen between the NLRA and class action …
Uncertainty In Employee Status Across Federal Law, Ryan G. Vacca
Uncertainty In Employee Status Across Federal Law, Ryan G. Vacca
Law Faculty Scholarship
Numerous federal statutes rely on a distinction between employees and independent contractors. Based on a series of Supreme Court decisions from 1968 through 2003, courts and administrative agencies have used a common law multifactor test to draw this distinction. In an effort to enhance predictability and certainty within and across legislation, these cases have rejected a purposive approach in applying the test. But the Supreme Court has never said which, if any, of the factors are the most important in the analysis, nor has anyone determined whether the underlying purpose—enhancing predictability and certainty—has been attained.
This empirical Study uses content …
Nfl National Anthem Protests: An Impending Labor Law Violation?, M'Kenzee Galloway
Nfl National Anthem Protests: An Impending Labor Law Violation?, M'Kenzee Galloway
Marquette Sports Law Review
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Alternative Remedies For Undocumented Workers Left Behind In A Post-Hoffman Plastic Era, Rachel S. Steber
Alternative Remedies For Undocumented Workers Left Behind In A Post-Hoffman Plastic Era, Rachel S. Steber
Catholic University Law Review
Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in 1935 in order to level the bargaining power of employees and employers to prevent burdening the flow of commerce and depressing workers’ wages. The NLRA vests the administration of promulgating the goals of the NLRA in the National Labor Relations Board (Board), broadly stating that the Board should take such affirmative action as necessary to effectuate the policies of the Act.
In 1935, however, Congress could not predict the future demographic makeup of the American workforce, and in its definition of an “employee” as covered under the NLRA, the statute makes …
Labor Law Illiteracy: Epic Systems Corp. V. Lewisand Janus V. Afscme, Michael J. Yelnosky
Labor Law Illiteracy: Epic Systems Corp. V. Lewisand Janus V. Afscme, Michael J. Yelnosky
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Union Rights For All: Toward Sectoral Bargaining In The United States, Kate Andrias
Union Rights For All: Toward Sectoral Bargaining In The United States, Kate Andrias
Faculty Scholarship
American labor unions have collapsed. Having once bargained for more than a third of American workers, unions now represent only about 6 percent of the private sector workforce. In the wake of new statutory and constitutional limitations, their presence in the public sector is shrinking as well.
Survey Of (Mostly Outdated And Often Ineffective) Laws Affecting Work-Related Monitoring, Robert Sprague
Survey Of (Mostly Outdated And Often Ineffective) Laws Affecting Work-Related Monitoring, Robert Sprague
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This article reviews various laws that affect work-related monitoring. It reveals that most of our privacy laws were adopted well before smartphones and the Internet became ubiquitous; they still hunt for physical secluded locations; and, because they are based on reasonable expectations of privacy, they can easily be circumvented by employer policies that eliminate that expectation by informing workers they have no right to privacy in the workplace. This article concludes that the future—indeed the present—does not bode well for worker privacy.
Bekele V. Lyft, Inc., Anne Maly
The Persistence Of Union Repression In An Era Of Recognition, Anne Marie Lofaso
The Persistence Of Union Repression In An Era Of Recognition, Anne Marie Lofaso
Maine Law Review
Labor rights in countries with predominantly free market economies have generally passed through three stages--repression, tolerance, and recognition. In the United States, nineteenth-century state and federal governments repressed labor unions by making conduct, such as workers banding together for higher wages, subject to criminal penalty and civil liability. Courts paved the way for tolerating labor unions by overruling repressive precedents. By the early twentieth century, Congress followed suit by legislatively exempting unions from certain legal liabilities. In 1935, Congress enacted Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), marking the first formal federal government recognition of employees' “right to …
Ufc Fighters Are Taking A Beating Because They Are Misclassified As Independent Contractors. An Employee Classification Would Change The Fight Game For The Ufc, Its Fighters, And Mma, Vincent Salminen
Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum
The current state of affairs in the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) is overwhelmingly in favor of the companies promoting the fights and not in favor of the athletes actually putting their health and lives at risk. This article looks at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and how it classifies its fighters as independent contractors rather than employees, even though it treats the fighters more like employees. This article addresses issues fighters are having with the current classification and then examines how the fighters could be classified as employees. Finally, the article will address what an employee classification would …
Western Cab Co. V. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 133 Nev. Adv. Op. 10, (Mar. 16, 2017), Sydney Campau
Western Cab Co. V. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 133 Nev. Adv. Op. 10, (Mar. 16, 2017), Sydney Campau
Nevada Supreme Court Summaries
An employer challenged the validity of Nevada’s Minimum Wage Amendment (MWA). The Court held that (1) the MWA is not preempted by the NLRA, (2) the MWA is not preempted by ERISA, and (3) the MWA is not unconstitutionally vague. The Court declined to address factual issues related to the employer’s wage calculations.
Sixth Circuit Undermines Labor Statute, Angela B. Cornell
Sixth Circuit Undermines Labor Statute, Angela B. Cornell
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Waiting Game: Examining Labor Law And Reasons Why The Wnba Needs To Change Its Age/Education Policy, Jessica L. Hendrick
The Waiting Game: Examining Labor Law And Reasons Why The Wnba Needs To Change Its Age/Education Policy, Jessica L. Hendrick
Marquette Sports Law Review
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I Swear! From Shoptalk To Social Media: The Top Ten National Labor Relations Board Profanity Cases, Christine Neylon O'Brien
I Swear! From Shoptalk To Social Media: The Top Ten National Labor Relations Board Profanity Cases, Christine Neylon O'Brien
St. John's Law Review
(Excerpt)
This Article curates and analyzes ten recent cases where the NLRB decided whether or not § 7 protected employee swearing, with a view toward defining the implications of these decisions for employers and employees in terms of employer rules and discipline, and employee rights and limits thereon. The Article outlines the NLRB’s role and perspective in cases where employees are disciplined or discharged for engaging in profanity at work and/or on social media when the conduct in question is otherwise protected concerted activity. The Article summarizes the facts in each case while analyzing the legal framework that the NLRB …
Balancing Employer And Employee Interests In Social Media Disputes, Tara R. Flomenhoft
Balancing Employer And Employee Interests In Social Media Disputes, Tara R. Flomenhoft
Labor & Employment Law Forum
No abstract provided.
The Nlra Defamation Defense: Doomed Dinosaur Or Diamond In The Rough, Kati Griffith
The Nlra Defamation Defense: Doomed Dinosaur Or Diamond In The Rough, Kati Griffith
Kati Griffith
[Excerpt] This Article explores an underappreciated and promising NLRA protection of collective activity. It elaborates the NLRA’s role as a defense in state defamation cases. Specifically, this Article explains how the “NLRA defamation defense” frees defendants from some forms of defamation liability when the allegedly defamatory statements are made during labor disputes. The defense has no effect on defamation liability in what this Article refers to as “more egregious” state defamation law cases. However, the defense forecloses liability in “less egregious” state defamation law cases. It makes it harder for defamation plaintiffs to win their cases because it requires them …
Secondary Handbilling: The Need For A New Response, Heather Briggs, Curtis L. Mack
Secondary Handbilling: The Need For A New Response, Heather Briggs, Curtis L. Mack
Akron Law Review
This article will examine both the reasoning between the two diverging lines of cases regarding secondary handbilling and picketing, and the possible avenues of relief which might be available to the neutral employer that finds itself caught in the crossfire of a labor dispute.
The Excessive Use Of Presumptions And The Role Of Subjective Employee Intent In Effectuating The Purposes Of The National Labor Relations Act, Stuart Newman, Diane S. Shepherd
The Excessive Use Of Presumptions And The Role Of Subjective Employee Intent In Effectuating The Purposes Of The National Labor Relations Act, Stuart Newman, Diane S. Shepherd
Akron Law Review
This article will first examine the origin and development of significant presumptions and second, suggest a method by which the Board could better protect the Section 7 rights of employees without risking destabilization of the collective-bargaining process.
International Law - Employment Discrimination. Japanese Corporation Formed Under United States Law Must Comply With Terms Of Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964. Avagliano V. Sumitumo Shoji America, Inc., - U.S. -, 102 S. Ct. 2374 (1982)., Henry Cyrus
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism By Labor Unions, Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas
Realigning Corporate Governance: Shareholder Activism By Labor Unions, Stewart J. Schwab, Randall S. Thomas
Stewart J Schwab
No abstract provided.
The Worker Dislocation Dilemma In The United States And Great Britain: Contrasting Legal Approaches, Peter E. Millspaugh
The Worker Dislocation Dilemma In The United States And Great Britain: Contrasting Legal Approaches, Peter E. Millspaugh
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law
No abstract provided.
Labor Law 2.0: The Impact Of New Information Technology On The Employment Relationship And The Relevance Of The Nlra, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Labor Law 2.0: The Impact Of New Information Technology On The Employment Relationship And The Relevance Of The Nlra, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt
Articles by Maurer Faculty
The NLRA system of collective bargaining was born during the industrial age of the early twentieth century. As a result, key terms in the statute such as "employee," "employer," and "appropriate bargaining unit" were first interpreted in the context of long-term employment and large vertically integrated firms that dominated this era. Beginning in the late 1970s, the new information technology wrought a revolution in the organization of production increasing short-term contingent employment and the organization of firms horizontally in trading and subcontracting relationships across the globe. To maintain the relevance of collective bargaining to the modern workplace, the interpretation of …