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Labor and Employment Law

University of Missouri School of Law

2007

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Social Isolation And American Workers: Employee "Blogging" And Legal Reform, Rafael Gely, Leonard Bierman Apr 2007

Social Isolation And American Workers: Employee "Blogging" And Legal Reform, Rafael Gely, Leonard Bierman

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This article further demonstrates that state common law exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine are not providing significant redress to employees fired or otherwise disciplined for blogging.


The Law And Economics Of Identity, Rafael Gely Jan 2007

The Law And Economics Of Identity, Rafael Gely

Faculty Publications

A growing number of legal scholars have written about the demands that society and particular employers have placed on non-traditional employees to perform their identities, “or make themselves palatable” to their employers, by comporting with the criteria that the institution values. These authors have forcefully made the argument that some of these requirements are actually a form of class subordination; as a response, they argue for various forms of legal intervention.