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Missouri Law Review

2009

Employment

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Not Taking Care Of Business: State Responds To The Employee Free Choice Act, Preemption, And The Nlra, Mega Maskery Luecke Nov 2009

Not Taking Care Of Business: State Responds To The Employee Free Choice Act, Preemption, And The Nlra, Mega Maskery Luecke

Missouri Law Review

In 2009, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Representative George Miller (D-CA) introduced legislation in their respective chambers that would significantly change how workers form unions under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Under the current process, at least thirty percent of a company's employees must first sign cards that accompany a petition requesting union representation, after which the employees or the employer can ask the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a secret ballot election to poll employees on the issue of whether a majority wants to be represented by a union. If passed, the Employee Free Choice Act …


High Cost Of Low-Cost Workers: Missouri Enacts New Law Targeting Employers Of Unauthorized Workers, The, Michael B. Barnett Jun 2009

High Cost Of Low-Cost Workers: Missouri Enacts New Law Targeting Employers Of Unauthorized Workers, The, Michael B. Barnett

Missouri Law Review

This note seeks to explain Missouri's enactment of a law requiring use of E-Verify by certain employers, track recent developments that have made it more difficult to employ unauthorized workers, and advocate the position that this legislation will be upheld in the face of legal challenges. The following Section addresses federal immigration law and the subsequent creation of the E-Verify program. It also examines Missouri's recent enactment that requires some employers to enroll in the E-Verify program and provides stiff penalties for any entity that employs unauthorized workers. Section III considers recent cases out of Arizona, Oklahoma, and Missouri that …