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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation National Initiative On Workplace Flexibility, Kathleen Christensen Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s National Initiative on Workplace Flexibility by Kathleen Christensen, Ph.D. Director, Workplace, Workforce and Working Families Program. On behalf of Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Bibliography For The Fact Sheet On Meeting The Needs Of Today's Families: The Role Of Workplace Flexibility, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Bibliography for the Fact Sheet from the Meeting the Needs of Today's Families: The Role of Workplace Flexibility event held May 1, 2006.

Fact Sheet On Meeting The Needs Of Today's Families: The Role Of Workplace Flexibility, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Fact sheet from the Meeting the Needs of Today's Families: The Role of Workplace Flexibility event held May 1, 2006.

Biographies, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

The biographies of the panelist of the Meeting the Needs of Todays Families: The Role of Workplace Flexibility event held May 1, 2006.

Agenda, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

The agenda for the Meeting the Needs of Todays Families: The Role of Workplace Flexibility event held May 1, 2006.

Flyer, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

The flyer of the Meeting the Needs of Today’s Families: The Role of Workplace Flexibility event held May 1, 2006.

Resources For Workplace Flexibility, Families And Child Development, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A list of resources for Workplace Flexibility, Families and Child Development.

Promoting Children's Well Being: The Need For Workplace Flexibility, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A Workplace Flexibility 2010 Fact Sheet: Promoting Children's Well Being: The Need for Workplace Flexibility, from the event held September 29, 2006.

Biographies, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Biographies of the panelist at the Promoting Children’s Well Being: The Need for Workplace Flexibility event held September 29, 2006.

Agenda, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

The agenda for the Promoting Children’s Well Being: The Need for Workplace Flexibility, a Workplace Flexibility 2010 event held September 29, 2006.

Flyer, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Flyer for Promoting Children's Well-Being: The Role of Workplace Flexibility, a Workplace Flexibility 2010 event held September 29, 2006.

Highlights From Families And Work Institute's 2008 National Study Of Employers (Families And Work Institute), Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

Highlights from Families and Work Institute’s 2008 National Study of Employers.

Families and Work Institute’s 2008 National Study of Employers (NSE) is the most comprehensive and far-reaching study of the practices, policies, programs and benefits provided by U.S employers to address the changing needs of today’s workforce and workplace. The 2008 NSE sample includes 1,100 employers with 50 or more employees—77 percent are for profit employers and 23 percent are nonprofit organizations; 40 percent operate at only one location, while 60 percent have operations at more than one location.

Snapshot Of Fwi Research On U.S. Employees And Work-Life Fit (Families And Work Institute), Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A presentation: Snapshot of FWI Research on U.S. Employees and Work-Life Fit by Families and Work Institute on behalf of Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Wellness Profiles (Families And Work Institute), Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

2009 Guide to Bold New Ideas for Making Work Work.

Excerpts from the 2009 Edition profiling winners of the Alfred P. Sloan Awards for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility.

The selected profiles highlight flexible employers with strong wellness initiatives.

Presentation By Diane Halpern, Diane F. Halpern Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A presentation: Workplace Flexibility: The Case for Employers, Employees, and Public Policies by Diane F. Halpern, PhD, Claremont McKenna College on behalf of Workplace Flexibility 2010.

Presentation By Joseph Grzywacz, Joseph G. Grzywacz Phd

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A presentation: Workplace Flexibility & Employee Health & Well-being by Joseph G. Grzywacz, PhD, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine on behalf of Workplace Flexibility 2010.

"Highlights From October 23, 2009 Congressional Briefing", Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

A document with the highlights from the October 23, 2009 Congressional Briefing.

Briefing Flyer, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Briefings, Hearings, and Congressional Study Group

The briefing flyer from the Flexible Work Arrangements: Working for Americas Employers and Employees event held December 14, 2009.

From Brawn To Brains: How Immigration Works For America, Pia Orrenius

Western Migration Conference Series

Bio:

Pia Orrenius is Research Officer and Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Adjunct Professor at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. Her research focuses on the labor market impacts of immigration, unauthorized immigration, and U.S. immigration policy, and her work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Labour Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, among others. She is coauthor of the book Beside the Golden Door: U.S. Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization (2010, AEI Press). Dr. Orrenius is a Research Fellow at …

The Labor Market Effects Of U.S. Immigration: What Is The Latest Evidence?, Orn Bodvarsson

Western Migration Conference Series

Bio:

Örn Bodvarsson is Professor of Economics, Chair of the Department of Management, and Interim Chair of the Department of Social Work at St. Cloud State University. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. A labor economist, Bodvarsson has been working in the immigration field since 2001, focusing on host country distributional effects of immigration, determinants of migration, internal migration in China, and wage discrimination against the foreign-born. In 2009 Springer published his co-authored book, The Economics of Immigration: Theory and Policy, recently reviewed in Journal of Economic …

Recruitment And Retention Of Immigrants In A Global Labour Market: Implications For Policy, Christopher Robinson

Western Migration Conference Series

Bio:

Chris Robinson studied economics at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, and has been a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario since 1977. His research has focused on human capital and wage issues including human capital specificity, labour supply, migration, and unions and he has published a wide range of articles on these topics in scholarly journals. From 1993 to 2003 he served as associate editor of the Journal of
Labor Economics. From 2001 to 2010 he held the CIBC Chair in Human Capital and
Productivity at the University of Western Ontario …

A Moral Contractual Approach To Labor Law Reform: A Template For Using Ethical Principles To Regulate Behavior Where Law Failed To Do So Effectively, Zev J. Eigen, David S. Sherwyn

Faculty Working Papers

If laws cease to work as they should or as intended, legislators and scholars propose new laws to replace or amend them. This paper posits an alternative—offering regulated parties the opportunity to contractually bind themselves to behave ethically. The perfect test-case for this proposal is labor law, because (1) labor law has not been amended for decades, (2) proposals to amend it have failed for political reasons, and are focused on union election win rates, and less on the election process itself, (3) it is an area of law already statutorily regulating parties' reciprocal contractual obligations, and (4) moral means …

Reemployment Under Userra Sections 4312 & 4313: At Will Employment Vs. Temporary Employment, Richard L. Pate

WCBT Faculty Publications

As thousands of service members return to the U.S., severe economic conditions render acclimation to civilian life especially difficult. In 2010, as the combat mission in Iraq approached an end, the unemployment rate of Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans had reached 13.1 percent. The Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301-4333 (1994) ("USERRA"), was enacted, in great part, to mitigate harms such as those caused by the aforementioned perfect storm. Among other things, USERRA protects service members by entitling them to reemployment after military service. More specifically, USERRA Sections 4312 & 4313 entitle returning service members …

The Estimated Value Of A Premium Division One Football Player: The Argument Supporting Pay For Play, Travis S. Roher

CMC Senior Theses

Abstract

The gap between the revenue generated by division one football players and the value of an athletic scholarship is the marginal revenue product of these athletes.  Because of the monopsonistic behavior of the NCAA, division one institutions capture an economic rent from their student athletes. This paper measures the rents generated by NCAA division one football players in the six powerhouse conferences by using linear regressions based on variables such as university revenue, future NFL draft picks, undergraduate population, and weekly AP Top-25 rankings. This paper will inform its readers on how much money these student athletes are generating …

Family Security Insurance: A New Foundation For Economic Security, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center, Berkeley Center On Health, Economic & Family Security, Uc Berkeley School Of Law

Published Reports

A report released by Georgetown Law's Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (Berkeley CHEFS) outlining a blueprint for establishing and financing a new national insurance program to provide wage replacement for time off for health and caregiving needs. The report describes the need among working Americans for time off from work to address personal illness, to care for a new child, or to care for a loved one with a serious illness. It argues that the need for time off is no longer an issue for individual families or select industries, but a …

Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act Of 1978: Overview, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

The Federal Employees Part-Time Career Employment Act aims to utilize the potential of persons who do not work a traditional forty-hour workweek. Having found that part-time permanent employment has a number of benefits,i Congress passed legislation extending part-time career employment opportunities throughout the federal government in 1978.

Phased Retirement Data Sheet, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

This data sheet includes information on current coverage and participation by American workers in pension and retirement plans. It also includes information on what employees say they want in terms of flexible work arrangements and access to pension and retirement funds, as well as what employers say they need with regard to the workforce of the future.

Early Retirement Incentive Plans And The Age Discrimination In Employment Act, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

Early retirement incentive plans (ERIP) “seek to give incentives to older employees to retire before conventional retirement age. The purpose of these programs is to cut back on salaries and benefits to make way for younger workers.” While some ERIPs might constitute a prohibited act under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), the statute provides an affirmative defense for employers who can prove that the plan is voluntary and “consistent with the purposes” of the Act.

Some commentators have suggested that one way to encourage employers to establish bona fide phased retirement programs within their qualified pension plans is …

Benefits, Rights And Features Nondiscrimination Testing And Phased Retirement Programs, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

Various studies indicate that formal phased retirement programs within defined benefit plans are wanted and needed by both employers and employees. Phased retirement programs may be useful for employees who want to reduce their hours during later stages of their careers, but who wish to remain in the workforce. For employers, a phased retirement program may be a useful tool to retain talented employees who may otherwise fully retire.

In designing phased retirement programs, It is not surprising that many employers wish to have significant discretion in deciding which employees they will seek to retain through a phased retirement program. …

Phased Retirement Benefits And Final Full Retirement Calculations: Open Issues, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

This document briefly describes two issues relating to the final, full retirement benefit for individuals who receive a phased retirement distribution from a defined benefit plan: 1) whether and how any phased retirement distribution would offset the final full retirement benefit, and 2) the form of the payment of the final, full retirement benefit.