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Full-Text Articles in Law
Day Worker Center: Employer And Client Engagement, Anayeli Avalos
Day Worker Center: Employer And Client Engagement, Anayeli Avalos
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
The Day Worker Center of Santa Cruz County is a component of the Community Action Board (CAB), a non-profit organization that has been providing services to eliminate poverty. CAB offers the program, administrative, and fiscal oversight to the Day Worker Center. The County of Santa Cruz is facing a high rate of unemployment, which is affecting the community. What contributes to the problem is low awareness of community knowledge about employment services. Also, the undocumented community that finds it hard to trust services because they think they can get deported. In addition, the issue can cause consequences such as health …
Finding The Goldilocks Zone: Negotiating Your First Employment Offer In Legal Academia, Darby Dickerson
Finding The Goldilocks Zone: Negotiating Your First Employment Offer In Legal Academia, Darby Dickerson
Journal of Legal Education
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Dean Michael Yelnosky To Step Down After 2019-20 Academic Year 9-5-2019, Jill Rodrigues, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law School News: Dean Michael Yelnosky To Step Down After 2019-20 Academic Year 9-5-2019, Jill Rodrigues, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Opposite Sides Of The Same Coin: Worker Classification In The New Economy, Griffin Toronjo Pivateau
Opposite Sides Of The Same Coin: Worker Classification In The New Economy, Griffin Toronjo Pivateau
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Massive changes have disrupted the institution of employment. The growth of the service sector, technological advancements, and developments in the finance market have created a demand for new employment models. Employers have responded by increasingly utilizing independent contractors to fill positions traditionally held by employees.
Designating a worker as either "employee" or "independent contractor" determines the degree to which employment law applies to the worker. An independent contractor falls outside many of the benefits and protections that the law provides employees. Currently, courts, states, and administrative agencies use a confusing array of employment tests, created for different purposes and different …
Law School News: Millennial Law 08-21-2019, Dick Dahl
Law School News: Millennial Law 08-21-2019, Dick Dahl
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Marijuana Issues For Voters: Studying Issues Us States Have Had With Legalizing Marijuana, Kody Kesler
Marijuana Issues For Voters: Studying Issues Us States Have Had With Legalizing Marijuana, Kody Kesler
WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing
In the United States, the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana in individual states, rather than the whole nation, is a great example of states being “laboratories of democracy.” Legalizing marijuana in the states first is essential to deciding how to go about the issue on the national level, once Americans are ready for it. In most states where it is legal, employees can still be fired for having marijuana in their system, even if they have a medical recommendation. The drug tests that employers use don’t test for the recent use of drugs like marijuana, but for a part …
Silicon Ceilings: Information Technology Equity, The Digital Divide And The Gender Gap Among Information Technology Professionals, Andrea M. Matwyshyn
Silicon Ceilings: Information Technology Equity, The Digital Divide And The Gender Gap Among Information Technology Professionals, Andrea M. Matwyshyn
Andrea Matwyshyn
No abstract provided.
When Caring Is Work: Home, Health, And The Invisible Workforce: Introduction, Dianne Avery, Martha T. Mccluskey
When Caring Is Work: Home, Health, And The Invisible Workforce: Introduction, Dianne Avery, Martha T. Mccluskey
Dianne Avery
This essay introduces the SUNY Buffalo Law School 2012 James McCormick Mitchell Lecture. The Lecture featured distinguished scholars Hendrik Hartog, Jennifer Klein, and Peggie R. Smith, who each contributed an essay to this volume. These three scholars give a richly detailed picture of home caretakers' struggles to gain visibility and support for their important work. Legal rulings and policy choices have made care workers distinctly vulnerable, treating care services as an expression of love rather than contract (as Hartog describes), or as social rehabilitation for marginal citizens rather than as skilled health care provision (as Klein explains), or as informal …
Future Work, Jeffrey M. Hirsch
Future Work, Jeffrey M. Hirsch
AI-DR Collection
The Industrial Revolution. The Digital Age. These revolutions radically altered the workplace and society. We may be on the cusp of a new era—one that will rival or even surpass these historic disruptions. Technology such as artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, and cutting-edge monitoring devices are developing at a rapid pace. These technologies have already begun to infiltrate the workplace and will continue to do so at ever increasing speed and breadth.
This Article addresses the impact of these emerging technologies on the workplace of the present and the future. Drawing upon interviews with leading technologists, the Article explains the …
The Gig Economy: An Annotated Bibliography, Matthew L. Timko
The Gig Economy: An Annotated Bibliography, Matthew L. Timko
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Airbnb, and others have become established within society, to the point that Uber has become a regularly used verb. While the consumer benefits of these companies has been immediate, the legal implications remain far murkier. This emerging market has demonstrated that the twentieth century laws are unable to cope with these twenty-first century businesses in regard to employee rights, employer responsibilities, consumer protections, and federal and state regulations. This bibliography presents the primary and secondary sources which are essential to understanding what has been termed the "gig economy" so that readers have a background of …
Joint Employment Under The Flsa, The Fourth Circuit's Decision To Be Different, Carl H. Petkoff
Joint Employment Under The Flsa, The Fourth Circuit's Decision To Be Different, Carl H. Petkoff
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
To Protect Or Not To Protect, An Empirical Approach To Predicting Where The Fourth Circuit Would Stand On Coverage For Sexual Orientation Discrimination Under Title Vii, Mary Stuart King
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Education In The United States: Moving Toward More Practical Experience, Hon. Sandra R. Klein
Legal Education In The United States: Moving Toward More Practical Experience, Hon. Sandra R. Klein
Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review
No abstract provided.
Gig-Dependence: Finding The Real Independent Contractors Of Platform Work, Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
Gig-Dependence: Finding The Real Independent Contractors Of Platform Work, Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
Northern Illinois University Law Review
Platforms such as Uber and TaskRabbit avoid employment obligations by categorizing their workers as “independent contractors.” Declining to follow overtime, antidiscrimination, and other workplace mandates, these platforms claim to employ no one. Applied on a grand scale, the entire project of platform labor threatens to destabilize our contemporary understanding of employment law. But not all platform workers possess the characteristics of genuine independent contractors, as courts first envisioned that category. Judges did not originally formulate the independent contractor distinction to define the boundaries of workplace protections; rather, the independent contractor classification was designed to limit the liability of masters for …
Ban The Box: Mediation’S Place In Criminal Reentry And Employment Rights, Shawn Anderson
Ban The Box: Mediation’S Place In Criminal Reentry And Employment Rights, Shawn Anderson
Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal
This note will provide general insight into a growing civil rights movement through discussion of Ban the Box, then make the case for mediation as the best alternative for providing a remedy to applicants whose rights have been violated. Mediation can more effectively achieve the goals of Ban the Box by incentivizing applicants to report instances of nonconformity with the law, empowering the applicants to engage in honest discourse with their prospective employers, and combatting the negative stigma surrounding persons with criminal records that often keeps employers from hiring the qualified employees that they need.
Brief Of Brian Wolfman, Aderson B. Francois, And Eric Schnapper As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner In Peterson V. Linear Controls Incorporated, No. 18-1401 (U.S. Supreme Court June 6, 2019), Brian Wolfman, Aderson B. François
Brief Of Brian Wolfman, Aderson B. Francois, And Eric Schnapper As Amici Curiae In Support Of Petitioner In Peterson V. Linear Controls Incorporated, No. 18-1401 (U.S. Supreme Court June 6, 2019), Brian Wolfman, Aderson B. François
U.S. Supreme Court Briefs
In Title VII disparate-treatment, employment-discrimination cases, the term “adverse employment action” originally developed as judicial shorthand for the statute’s text, which broadly prohibits any discriminatory conduct by an employer against an employee based on the employee's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. See 42 U.S.C. 2000e-2(a)(1). But what started simply as shorthand has taken on a life of its own and now improperly limits the statute’s reach. The Fifth Circuit’s version of the adverse-employment-action rule stands out as especially improper: Only an “ultimate employment decision”—a refusal to hire, a firing, a demotion, or the like—constitutes impermissible discrimination.
In this …
“It’S Hard Out Here If You’Re A Black Felon”: A Critical Examination Of Black Male Reentry, Jason M. Williams, Sean K. Wilson, Carrie Bergeson
“It’S Hard Out Here If You’Re A Black Felon”: A Critical Examination Of Black Male Reentry, Jason M. Williams, Sean K. Wilson, Carrie Bergeson
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Formerly incarcerated Black males face many barriers once they return to society after incarceration. Research has long established incarceration as a determinant of poor health and well-being. While research has shown that legally created barriers (e.g., employment, housing, and social services) are often a challenge post-incarceration, far less is known of Black male’s daily experiences of reentry. Utilizing critical ethnography and semi-structured interviews with formerly incarcerated Black males in a Northeastern community, this study examines the challenges Black males experience post-incarceration.
Competition Policy For Labour Markets, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
Competition Policy For Labour Markets, Herbert J. Hovenkamp
All Faculty Scholarship
Competition law in many jurisdictions defines its consumer welfare goal in terms of low consumer prices. For example, mergers are challenged when they threaten to cause a price increase from reduced competition in the post-merger market. While the consumer welfare principle is under attack in some circles, it remains the most widely expressed goal of antitrust policy.
We would do better, however, to define consumer welfare in terms of output rather than price. Competition policy should strive to facilitate the highest output in any market that is consistent with sustainable competition. That goal is in most ways the same as …
The Pro Bono Collaborative Project Spotlight: Pro Bono Collaborative License Restoration Project Makes A Fresh Start Possible March 2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law
The Pro Bono Collaborative Project Spotlight: Pro Bono Collaborative License Restoration Project Makes A Fresh Start Possible March 2019, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Pro Bono Collaborative Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Law School News: Are You Experienced? 01-18-2019, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Are You Experienced? 01-18-2019, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Employer Perceptions When Applying Criminal History Information To The Hiring Process, Karen S. Levy Mccanna
Employer Perceptions When Applying Criminal History Information To The Hiring Process, Karen S. Levy Mccanna
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In recent years, the state of Illinois has joined the "ban the box" movement which typically prohibits employers from inquiring about a prospective employee's criminal history until it has been determined whether the candidate meets the core qualifications for the position. Little, however, is known whether this legislative change has impacted how private employers use criminal history information and to what extent knowledge of criminal history impacts final hiring decisions. Using Kingdon's policy streams concept as a guide, the purpose of this general qualitative study was to understand whether implementation of "ban the box" principles impacts final hiring decisions. Data …
Surviving The “Pretext” Stage Of Mcdonnell Douglas: Should Employment Discrimination And Retaliation Plaintiffs Prove “Motivating Factors” Or But-For Causation?, Alexandra Zabinski
Surviving The “Pretext” Stage Of Mcdonnell Douglas: Should Employment Discrimination And Retaliation Plaintiffs Prove “Motivating Factors” Or But-For Causation?, Alexandra Zabinski
Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice
No abstract provided.
Scientific Knowledge Fraud, Wes Henricksen
A New #Metoo Result: Rejecting Notions Of Romantic Consent With Executives, Michael Z. Green
A New #Metoo Result: Rejecting Notions Of Romantic Consent With Executives, Michael Z. Green
Faculty Scholarship
With the growth of the #MeToo movement since October 2017, more than 200 prominent male executives have lost their jobs. Some pushback has occurred as many of these executives have asserted their behavior was not inappropriate because their acts were consensual. Essentially, this argument requires companies evaluating this behavior to find nothing wrong when executives use their vast power and influence to have romantic and sexual relationships with their subordinates who do not say “no.”
Those suggesting that the #MeToo movement has gone too far believe it will result in unintended consequences where totally benign and even positive engagement between …
Wage Theft In Lawless Courts, Llezlie Green
Wage Theft In Lawless Courts, Llezlie Green
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Low-wage workers experience wage theft — that is, employers’ failure to pay earned wages — at alarmingly high rates. Indeed, the number of wage and hour cases filed in federal and state courts and administrative agencies steadily increases every year. While much of the scholarly assessment of wage and hour litigation focuses on large collective and class actions involving hundreds or thousands of workers and millions of dollars in lost wages, the experiences of individual workers with small claims have received little attention. Furthermore, scholarly consideration of the justice gap in lower courts, more generally, has often focused on debt …
Reclaiming The Navajo Range: Resolving The Conflict Between Grazing Rights And Development, Ezra Rosser
Reclaiming The Navajo Range: Resolving The Conflict Between Grazing Rights And Development, Ezra Rosser
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Grazing is fundamental to Navajo identity, yet management of the Navajo range remains highly problematic. This Essay connects the federal government's devastating livestock reduction effort of the 1930s with the inability of the Navajo Nation to place meaningful limits on grazing and the power of grazing permittees. It argues that the Navajo Nation should consider reasserting the tribe's traditional understanding that property rights depend on use as a way to create space for reservation development.
The Future Of Disability Rights Protections For Transgender People, Kevin M. Barry, Jennifer L. Levi
The Future Of Disability Rights Protections For Transgender People, Kevin M. Barry, Jennifer L. Levi
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
El Gran Ausente De Las Discusiones Laborales: La Migración, Jennifer Gordon
El Gran Ausente De Las Discusiones Laborales: La Migración, Jennifer Gordon
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Restoring The Statutory Safety-Valve For Immigrant Crime Victims: Premium Processing For Interim U Visa Benefits, Jason A. Cade, Mary Honeychurch
Restoring The Statutory Safety-Valve For Immigrant Crime Victims: Premium Processing For Interim U Visa Benefits, Jason A. Cade, Mary Honeychurch
Scholarly Works
This essay focuses on the U visa, a critical government program that has thus far failed to live up to its significant potential. Congress enacted the U visa to aid undocumented victims of serious crime and incentivize them to assist law enforcement without fear of deportation. The reality, however, is that noncitizens eligible for U status still languish in limbo for many years while remaining vulnerable to deportation and workplace exploitation. This is in large part due to the fact that the agency has never devoted sufficient resources to processing these cases. As a result, the potential benefits of the …
Snapshot Of Trade Secret Developments, Elizabeth A. Rowe
Snapshot Of Trade Secret Developments, Elizabeth A. Rowe
UF Law Faculty Publications
As we enter the second year post enactment of the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, this Paper presents a snapshot of developments to assess whether there appear to be any significant doctrinal changes afoot in trade secret litigation, both civil and criminal, during the past year. I take a qualitative look at some of the substantive rulings from 2017 to date. My assessment based on this limited sampling is that there do not appear to be any dramatic changes to the doctrinal development of the law to date.
The paper highlights some noteworthy civil cases from select federal and state …