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Defining Who Is An Employee After A.B.5: Trading Uniformity And Simplicity For Expanded Coverage, Edward A. Zelinsky

Catholic University Law Review

A.B.5 made a significant but limited expansion of the coverage of California labor law but at a notable cost. Even as A.B.5 broadened the reach of the Golden State’s labor protections, A.B.5 also made the definition of “employee” more complex and less uniform. Those seeking federal or state legislation like A.B.5 confront the same trade-off under which greater coverage is achieved at the expense of more complexity and less uniformity in the definition of who is an employee. The same political forces and policy considerations which molded A.B.5 in California will have similar effects in other states and in the …

Paid To Play: College Athletes Face Off With The Ncaa In The High Court, Heyman Center On Corporate Governance, Cardozo Antitrust Society, Cardozo Business Law Society, Cardozo Labor And Employment Law Society, Cardozo Sports Law Society, Hiba Hafiz, Glen Nager, Josh Mendelsohn, Daniel Lust

2020–2021 Flyers

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Vol. 38, No. 2, Cass T. Casper

The Illinois Public Employee Relations Report

Emergent Issues in the Law of Employee Terminations

By Cass T. Casper

Recent Developments

Be Reasonable: The Applicability Of Chevron To Agency Interpretations Of Split-Authority Statutes, Jessica L. Asbridge

Marquette Law Review

The well-known Chevron doctrine is under siege as courts continue to carve out exceptions to its scope and some scholars and judges question whether it should be overruled entirely. One ongoing battle concerns whether the doctrine, which requires courts to defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutes, applies to certain “split-authority” statutes administered by multiple agencies, such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s whistleblower provisions (SOX) and similar employment statutes. Both the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) administer SOX’s whistleblower provisions, with the DOL having formal adjudicative authority and the SEC having rulemaking authority, leading …

Bostock’S Paradox: Intersections In Lgbtq Employment Rights And Private, Religious Businesses, Christopher Smith

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Thanks to the recent opinion of Bostock v. Clayton County by the United States Supreme Court regarding the protection of LGBTQ employees in the workplace, discussion has turned to how this protection relates to religious employers. Religious organizations such as churches and mosques are afforded protections thanks to an exemption found in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The role and scope of these protections in regards to private, religious (but not religion-owned) businesses has been debated as recently as 2014 in the Supreme Court. In this paper I address this issue and determine that, underneath current ruling …

The Ragged Edge Of Rugged Individualism: Wage Theft And The Personalization Of Social Harm, Matthew Fritz-Mauer

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Every year, millions of low-wage workers suffer wage theft when their employers refuse to pay them what they have earned. Wage theft is both prevalent and highly impactful. It costs individuals thousands each year in unpaid earnings, siphons tens of billions of dollars from low-income communities, depletes the government of necessary resources, distorts the competitive labor market, and causes significant personal harm to its victims. In recent years, states and cities have passed new laws to attack the problem. These legal changes are important. They are also, broadly speaking, failing the people they are supposed to protect.

This Article fills …

Intolerable Asymmetry And Uncertainty: Congress Should Right The Wrongs Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1991, William R. Corbett

Journal Articles

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Understanding Post-Employment Obligations Of Confidence And Confidentiality In Compilations Of Data, Cheng Lim Saw, Zheng Wen Samuel Chan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

This article closely examinesn two specific areas in the law of confidence. The first concerns erstwhile employer-employee relationships and the various obligations of confidentiality that may bind an employee-including individuals who find themselves in positions analogous to employees-after the contract of employment has come to an end.

Compensation, Commodification, And Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies And Excluded Nonlaboring Humans, Karen M. Tani

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. by Nate Holdren.

Rural Social Safety Nets For Migrant Farmworkers In Michigan, 1942–1971, Emily A. Prifogle

Articles

In the 1960s, farmers pressed trespass charges against aid workers providing assistance to agricultural laborers living on the farmers’ private property. Some of the first court decisions to address these types of trespass, such as the well-known and frequently taught State v. Shack (1971), limited the property rights of farmers and enabled aid workers to enter camps where migrants lived. Yet there was a world before Shack, a world in which farmers welcomed onto their land rural religious groups, staffed largely by women from the local community, who provided services to migrant workers. From the 1940s through the 1960s, federal, …

Who Killed The Mockingbird?-An Analysis Of Community Theatres' Legal Standing Amid Copyright Disputes Over To Kill A Mockingbird And How To Protect Community Theatres, Yifan Li

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

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All The Tenacity Of Original Sin: Agencies And Courts Continue To Place The Burden Of Persuasion On Defendants In Violation Of The Apa And Supreme Court Precedent, Arthur Sapper

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

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Vicarious Liability For Mine Safety And Health Violations, William K. Doran

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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The Auditing Imperative For Automated Hiring, Ifeoma Ajunwa

AI-DR Collection

The high bar of proof to demonstrate either a disparate treatment or disparate impact cause of action under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, coupled with the “black box” nature of many automated hiring systems, renders the detection and redress of bias in such algorithmic systems difficult. This Article, with contributions at the intersection of administrative law, employment & labor law, and law & technology, makes the central claim that the automation of hiring both facilitates and obfuscates employment discrimination. That phenomenon and the deployment of intellectual property law as a shield against the scrutiny of automated systems combine …

Protecting The Privacy Of The Worker In Light Of The Development Of Modern Means Of Communication: A Comparative Study Of The Uae And French Laws, Pierre Mallet

UAEU Law Journal

The concept of privacy has evolved a lot due to the tremendous scientific development that humanity has achieved in recent decades. The massive use of computers and the Internet in all areas has given rise to new aspects of privacy. This concept now concerns calls, personal photos, recordings, the use of social networks and personal conversations. Through this research, we want to inform the reader about the rules governing the protection of the privacy of an employee in the field of computer science in the light of the legal texts applied in UAE laws, or at least clarify the positions …

National Institute Of Occupational Safety And Health: Limits Of Authority In Rulemaking Under The Federal Mine Safety And Health Act Of 1977, Michael T. Heenan, C. Gregory Ruffenach

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Establishing Union Liability For Unauthorized Strikes, Glenn C. Van Bever

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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Reflection On The Philosophy Behind The Exemption To Notice Of Employment Termination A Study In The Light Of The Jordanian Labour Law 1996, Firas Kasassbeh

UAEU Law Journal

Under the Jordanian Labour Act 1996, it is not permissible for the employer to terminate the employee’s contract without giving the labourer/ employee at least one month notice before the date of termination. This is because sudden dismissal may cause hardship on the employee such as finding him/herself unemployed. However, there are cases where the employer is exempted from giving such notice due to either the nature of the contract (such as in the case of definite period contracts and the case of employment under probation), or the nature of termination (such as in the cases where the termination is …

The Impact Of Sebben In Federal Black Lung Litigation, Elizabeth Hopkins

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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The Surprising Cost Of Benefits: The Legislative History Of The Federal Black Lung Benefits Program, Jonathan P. Nase

Journal of Natural Resources & Environmental Law

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