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The Resurgence Of Forced Labor: How The Sixth Circuit's Decision In United States V. Toviave Endorses The Exploitation Of Children, Sophia K. Niazi
The Resurgence Of Forced Labor: How The Sixth Circuit's Decision In United States V. Toviave Endorses The Exploitation Of Children, Sophia K. Niazi
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
Comment arguing that the Sixth Circuit decision in United States v. Toviave was erroneous because the court failed to determine that the alleged forced labor was used as a means to control the children in the case. The comment looks at the reasoning in Toviave and explores the Sixth Circuit's reasoning in the case as well as the Federal Forced Labor Statute, the Federal Involuntary Servitude Statute and Michigan's current child abuse laws.
Angry Employees: Revisiting Insubordination In Title Vii Cases, Susan Carle
Angry Employees: Revisiting Insubordination In Title Vii Cases, Susan Carle
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
In too many Title VII cases, employees find themselves thrown out of court because they reacted angrily to reasonable perceptions of employer discrimination. In the race context, supervisors repeatedly call employees the n-word and use other racial epithets, order African American employees to perform work others in the same job classification do not have to do, and impose discipline white employees do not face for the comparable conduct. In the gender context, courts throw out plaintiffs’ cases even where supervisors engage in egregious sexual harassment. Employees who react angrily to such demeaning treatment—by cursing, shouting, refusing an order or leaving …
Introduction To Worker Cooperatives And Their Role In The Changing Economy, Priya Baskaran
Introduction To Worker Cooperatives And Their Role In The Changing Economy, Priya Baskaran
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article advocates for cooperatives as a vehicle for protecting and empowering vulnerable workers, like those in New York’s nail salons. Some may argue that worker cooperatives are unnecessary and that advocacy groups and legislation would be just as effective. California has a nonprofit, the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative (CHNSC), which is dedicated to advocating for healthy working conditions for nail workers. The organization is composed of key stakeholders in the nail salon industry, including individual manicurists, environmental organizations, researchers, reproductive justice groups, and government agencies. CHNSC created a “healthy nail salon” certification as an incentive for owners to …
Exploited At The Intersection: A Critical Race Feminist Analysis Of Undocumented Latina Workers And The Role Of The Private Attorney General, Llezlie Green
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Undocumented Latina workers experience wage theft and other workplace exploitation at alarmingly high rates. The stock stories associated with immigrant workers often involve male day laborers or female domestic workers and fail to capture the experiences of women toiling in the farms, restaurants, factories, and home and business cleaning services that employ hundreds of thousands of immigrant women. The resulting invisibility of undocumented Latina women in the typical narratives parallels the paucity of undocumented Latina workers who make legal claims against their exploitative employers. Their distinct experiences are characterized by multiple intersecting vulnerabilities based upon their ethnicity, gender, and immigration …