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Mandatory Arbitration Of Individual Employment Rights: The Yellow Dog Contract Of The 1990s, Katherine V.W. Stone

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Q-Word As Red Herring: Why Disparate Impact Liability Does Not Induce Hiring Quotas, Peter Siegelman, Ian Ayres

Faculty Articles and Papers

The debates over the passage of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act' were marked by passionate disagreement: conservatives objected to the legislation as an unwarranted interference with employers' freedom of contract, while liberal supporters considered it a first step toward racial justice. While disagreement about what employment discrimination law should do has continued-in much the same form-to this day, there has been surprising consensus about the mechanism by which Title VII actually works: whether it is thought of as inadequate or excessive, Title VII is usually presumed to promote the hiring of those it is designed to protect.'The …

Journalists As Professionals: Rethinking The Professional Exemption Under The Fair Labor Standards Act, Edward D. Cavanagh

Faculty Publications

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This Article examines the question of whether journalists in the print or electronic media are professionals and hence exempt from coverage under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 ("FLSA") or whether they are wage earners and therefore covered by the FLSA. Department of Labor regulations are unclear as to the status of journalists under the FLSA; they recognize that journalists may qualify as professionals but appear to state that most journalists are covered by the FLSA. Those regulations, however, are seriously outdated and out of touch with the modem world of journalism. Promulgated when television was in its …

University Of Richmond Law Review

University of Richmond Law Review

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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Employment Law, Paul G. Beers

University of Richmond Law Review

This article focuses upon Virginia employment law between spring 1995 and August 1996. Special topics, such as public sector employment, unemployment compensation and workers compensation2 lie outside the scope of this article, as do developments under federal statutes.

Union Lawyer's Obligations To Bargaining Unit Members: A Case Study Of The Interdependence Of Legal Ethics And Substantive Law, The Symposium: The Lawyer's Duties And Liabilities To Third Parties, Russell G. Pearce

Faculty Scholarship

One of the largest groups of purported nonclients to whom lawyers might have obligations are members of bargaining units represented by unions. Despite the much publicized decline of labor unions, they have almost 16.4 million members. In addition, many workers are members of bargaining units represented by labor unions, but are not union members. The relationship of union lawyers to these millions of bargaining unit members, whether members of the union or not, is unclear. An examination of how this relationship influences and is influenced by labor law offers a fascinating case study of the synergy between the substantive law …

The Copyright Term Extension Act Of 1995: Or How Publishers Managed To Steal The Bread From Authors, William F. Patry

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Copyright And The Legislative Process: A Personal Perspective, William F. Patry

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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Vicarious And Personal Liability For Employment Discrimination, Rebecca H. White

Scholarly Works

This Article addresses the issues of vicarious and personal liability for employment discrimination as a coherent whole. Part II examines the prevailing view on an employer's vicarious liability for employment discrimination under Title VII, the ADEA, and the ADA. Part II further discusses the exception to vicarious liability that has developed in hostile work environment cases and examines the justifications advanced for that exception. My point here is not so much to debate whether such an exception should exist but to determine whether the arguments against vicarious liability in hostile work environment cases justifiably can be limited to that context. …

Principles Of Insurance Coverage: A Guide For The Employment Lawyer, Francis J. Mootz Iii

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

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Arbitration: Back To The Future, Theodore J. St. Antoine

Other Publications

A strong new ideological current is sweeping through much of the Western World. At one extreme it manifests itself as a deep distrust of big government. In more modest form, it is a sense of skepticism or disillusionment about the capacity of big government to deal effectively with the problems confronting our society. In continental Europe today there is much talk of the principle of "subsidiarity," the notion that social and economic ills should be treated at the lowest level feasible, usually the level closest to the people directly affected. In the United States there is much talk of "privatization," …

Judicial Creation Of Norms In Japanese Labor Law: Activism In The Service Of — Stability?, Daniel H. Foote

Articles

This Article begins by examining the judiciary's role in employment litigation. Part II then considers the implications of this and related examples of judicial creation of norms in Japan. Plainly, in this context the stereotype of a passive judiciary with little significance for private parties is inaccurate. Yet do these cases truly reflect judicial "activism"? What is their significance with respect to the separation of powers debate? Even with regard to the sphere of private ordering, what judicial philosophy do they reflect? This Article then examines the impact that this judicially created set of employment norms has had, both on …

Equal Rights-Compatibility Of Family And Career-Legal Comparison: East Germany (Gdr) And Federal Republic Of Germany Today, Anita Grandke

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The article examines the evolution of gender equality in East Germany from the post-WWII era through the 1990 unification with West Germany, highlighting how East Germany's progressive laws promoting women's rights were rolled back after unification, leading to significant setbacks for women in employment, family life, and legal protections.

Crafting A Corporate Code From Scratch, Uriel Procaccia

Cardozo Law Review

In the summer of 1982 1 was contacted by the incumbent Minister of Justice of the State of Israel, Mr. Moshe Nissim. Nissim asked me to accept the commission of drafting a brand new and fully cohesive corporate code to replace our current, antiquated Companies Ordinance. I consented at once. Having consented, it occurred to me to reflect on the meaning of that little word, "cohesive," which was used-quite inadvertently, I presume-in Minister Nissim's solicitation. I finally came to interpret it as a sort of puzzle, or perhaps a quiz, which the resulting product, the corporate code, was crafted to …

Begging The Federal Question: Removal Jurisdiction In Wrongful Discharge Cases, Michael D. Moberly

Seattle University Law Review

This Article analyzes the federal question jurisdiction issue in the context of state law claims for wrongful discharge in violation of public policy articulated in federal law. Part II of this Article contains a general discussion of the public policy exception to the employment at will rule. Part III discusses removal and federal question jurisdiction. Part IV analyzes cases relevant to the issue of federal question removal jurisdiction in the wrongful discharge context, including the United States Supreme Court's decisions in Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals v. Thompson and Christianson v. Colt Industries Operating Corp. This Article concludes that a wrongful discharge …

Turning Labor Into Love: Housework And The Law, Katharine B. Silbaugh

Faculty Scholarship

Women's unpaid domestic labor produces tremendous economic value. In the United States, women spend more of their productive work hours in unpaid labor than in paid labor, and the credible estimates of the economic value of unpaid labor range from the equivalent of 24% to 60% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product ("GDP"). Given its economic value and its significant role in the working lives of women, it is surprising that the topic of home labor has received no systematic examination by legal scholars. This Article undertakes such an examination. It concludes that a wide range of legal doctrines treat …

How To Count To Fifteen: Determining The Jurisdictional Scope Of Title Vii: An Analysis Of Walters V. Metropolitan Educational Enterprises Inc., Barbara J. Fick

Journal Articles

This article previews the Supreme Court case Walters v. Metropolitan Educational Enterprises, Inc., 519 U.S. 202 (1997). The author expected the Court to consider how the number of employees of a particular employer should be counted for for purposes of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Privacy Rights, Public Policy, And The Employment Relationship, Pauline Kim

Scholarship@WashULaw

Two well-established common law doctrines increasingly are coming into conflict. The first protects individuals from unreasonable intrusions on their privacy. The second authorizes an employer to fire its employees at will, unless a clear agreement exists to the contrary. As employees have begun to assert their common law right of privacy' in the workplace, their claims have collided headlong with the doctrine of employment at will.

A Tale Of Two Opinions, Joseph R. Grodin

Faculty Scholarship

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Employment Discrimination: Recent Developments In The Supreme Court, Eileen Kaufman

Touro Law Review

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