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Punishment And Work Law Compliance: Lessons From Chile, Cesar F. Rosado Marzan
Punishment And Work Law Compliance: Lessons From Chile, Cesar F. Rosado Marzan
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
Workplace law activists and reformers find it increasingly more difficult to obtain redress for violation of workers’ rights. Some of them are calling for stricter enforcement and tougher penalties to bring employers into compliance. However, after seven and half months of participant observation at the Labor Directorate and the labor courts of Chile, institutions that use punishment as their main tools of enforcement, I am skeptical about the likelihood of success of mere punishment for effective workplace law enforcement and compliance. I am skeptical even though Chile is a country recognized as the Latin American “jaguar” for its successful economy …
Robbing A Barren Vault: The Implication Of Dukes V. Wal-Mart For Cases Challenging Subjective Employment Practices, Elizabeth Tippett
Robbing A Barren Vault: The Implication Of Dukes V. Wal-Mart For Cases Challenging Subjective Employment Practices, Elizabeth Tippett
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
This article examines federal opinions from 2005-2011 challenging subjective employment practices under a 'disparate impact' or 'pattern or practice' theory to assess the likely impact of Dukes v. Wal-Mart on such cases. Although the Wal-Mart ruling favors employers, results suggest that the ruling’s effect on employer selection practices will be muted by the low prevalence of such claims. An average employer’s litigation risk in connection with such claims is so vanishingly small that I surmise they rarely examine or alter their subjective selection practices in response. However, the risk of a lawsuit challenging subjective employment practices was not homogenous across …
Divergent Interests: Union Representation Of Individual Employment Discrimination Claims, Deborah A. Widiss
Divergent Interests: Union Representation Of Individual Employment Discrimination Claims, Deborah A. Widiss
Indiana Law Journal
Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change? Symposium held November 12-13, 2010, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana
The Arbitration Fairness Act: It Need Not And Should Not Be An All Or Nothing Proposition, Martin H. Malin
The Arbitration Fairness Act: It Need Not And Should Not Be An All Or Nothing Proposition, Martin H. Malin
Indiana Law Journal
Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change? Symposium held November 12-13, 2010, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana.
Shifting The Paradigm Of The Debate: A Proposal To Eliminate At-Will Employment And Implement A "Mandatory Arbitration Act", Zev J. Eigen, Nicholas F. Menillo, David S. Sherwyn
Shifting The Paradigm Of The Debate: A Proposal To Eliminate At-Will Employment And Implement A "Mandatory Arbitration Act", Zev J. Eigen, Nicholas F. Menillo, David S. Sherwyn
Indiana Law Journal
Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration: A Time for Hope and Change? Symposium held November 12-13, 2010, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana.
Fits And Starts For Mandatory Arbitration, Roger B. Jacobs
Fits And Starts For Mandatory Arbitration, Roger B. Jacobs
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal
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