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Disaggregated Discrimination And The Rise Of Identity Politics, George Rutherglen

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

How To Establish Labor Protection Standards For Kenyan Local Workers In Chinese Multinational Corporations, Qun Zhao

Washington International Law Journal

China has increased investment into Kenya since it proposed the Belt and Road Initiative. Many Chinese State-Owned-Enterprises (“SOEs”) and private companies have established their presence in Kenya; most of them engage in labor-intensive industries like infrastructure building or manufacturing. Labor-intensive work requires companies to hire many local workers, which gives rise to labor conflicts between Chinese employers and Kenyan employees. Major conflicts between the two parties stem from several factors including informal hiring, wrongful termination, and tense relations with Kenyan labor unions. This article suggests that Chinese companies in Kenya should comply with Kenyan labor law to resolve labor issues …

Local Right-To-Work Ordinances: Why § 14(B) Of The National Labor Relations Act Preempts Political Subdivisions From Regulating Union-Security Agreements, Michael Soder

University of Cincinnati Law Review

No abstract provided.

On The Features Of The Use Of The Term “Forced Labor” In The National Legislation Of The Republic Of Uzbekistan And International Labor Standards, J. Rasulov

Review of law sciences

This article analyzes the norms of international law and national legislation regarding to the legal nature of “forced labor”. The article reveals the features of transformation into national legislation norm of the International Labor Organization on the issue of forced labor.

Vo. 37, No. 2, Bryan Diemer

The Illinois Public Employee Relations Report

What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: Marijuana’s Fifty-Year Journey from an Illegal Narcotic to a Lawful Recreational Drug and Whether Workplace Drug Polices Will Now Go Up in Smoke, by Bryan Diemer

Recent Developments

Is Algorithmic Affirmative Action Legal?, Jason R. Bent

AI-DR Collection

This Article is the first to comprehensively explore whether algorithmic affirmative action is lawful. It concludes that both statutory and constitutional antidiscrimination law leave room for race-aware affirmative action in the design of fair algorithms. Along the way, the Article recommends some clarifications of current doctrine and proposes the pursuit of formally race-neutral methods to achieve the admittedly race-conscious goals of algorithmic affirmative action.

The Article proceeds as follows. Part I introduces algorithmic affirmative action. It begins with a brief review of the bias problem in machine learning and then identifies multiple design options for algorithmic fairness. These designs are …

The Ground On Which We All Stand: A Conversation About Menstrual Equity Law And Activism, Bridget J. Crawford, Margaret E. Johnson, Marcy L. Karin, Laura Strausfeld Esq., Emily Gold Waldman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This essay grows out of a panel discussion among five lawyers on the subject of menstrual equity activism. Each of the authors is a scholar, activist or organizer involved in some form of menstrual equity work. The overall project is both enriched and complicated by an intersectional analysis.

This essay increases awareness of existing menstrual equity and menstrual justice work; it also identifies avenues for further inquiry, next steps for legal action, and opportunities that lie ahead. After describing prior and current work at the junction of law and menstruation, the contributors evaluate the successes and limitations of recent legal …

Realigning Federal Statutes: Contradictions Between The Federal Arbitration Act And The National Labor Relations Act, Denise Han

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Christopher Steele and Brendan Leveron were employees at a private

maintenance company named Pinnacle. Both Steele and Leveron

reported that Pinnacle allegedly forced them to work overtime without

just compensation—an allegation that, if proven valid, would

violate the Fair Labor Standards Act and California state law. They

also claimed that Pinnacle was guilty of unfair business practices,

retaliation and whistleblowing violations, and a failure to account.

Soon after Steele and Leveron filed these allegations, they discovered

that their predicament was not unique across the firm. In 2012,

they decided to represent their fellow employees in a class-action suit

which so …

Enacting Local Workplace Regulations In An Era Of Preemption, Dilini Lankachandra

West Virginia Law Review

Since San Francisco enacted the first paid sick leave ordinance in 2007, cities and counties across the country have quietly emerged as drivers of the modern labor movement. Local governments are now increasingly playing a pivotal role in developing, enacting, and enforcing workplace regulations ranging from local minimum wage increases to LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinances to fair scheduling requirements. As a result, the question of which level of government should have the power to regulate business and protect workers has become a flash point in contemporary state-local conflicts, inciting state legislatures to adopt far-reaching, sweeping preemption laws that eliminate local authority …

Erasing Race, Llezlie L. Green

SMU Law Review Forum

Low-wage workers frequently experience exploitation, including wage theft, at the intersection of their racial identities and their economic vulnerabilities. Scholars, however, rarely consider the role of wage and hour exploitation in broader racial subordination frameworks. This Essay considers the narratives that have informed the detachment of racial justice from the worker exploitation narrative and the distancing of economic justice from the civil rights narrative. It then contends that social movements, like the Fight for $15, can disrupt narrow understandings of low-wage worker exploitation and proffer more nuanced narratives that connect race, economic justice, and civil rights to a broader anti-subordination …

Law In The Time Of Covid-19, Katharina Pistor

Faculty Books

The COVID-19 crisis has ended and upended lives around the globe. In addition to killing over 160,000 people, more than 35,000 in the United States alone, its secondary effects have been as devastating. These secondary effects pose fundamental challenges to the rules that govern our social, political, and economic lives. These rules are the domain of lawyers. Law in the Time of COVID-19 is the product of a joint effort by members of the faculty of Columbia Law School and several law professors from other schools.

This volume offers guidance for thinking about some the most pressing legal issues the …

Legal Exportation: The Case Of European Labor Law And Third Countries, Lior Zemer, Neta Nadiv

Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review

The frequency of change in industry and human mobility has brought new legal issues before labor courts. These changes constantly create a need to rethink and renew national labor law principles. In this process countries search for and import labor law principles from foreign legal systems. This Article focuses on Israeli labor law as a test case. Israeli courts considering labor law matters often turn to foreign legal systems in a manner that arguably influences the courts' interpretation and development of local labor laws. In practice, labor courts in Israel, when faced with a lack of appropriate domestic legislation, model …

Revisiting A Classic Problem In Statutory Interpretation: Is A Minister A Laborer?, Lawrence Solan, Tammy Gales

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Cares Act Gimmicks: How Not To Give People Money During A Pandemic And What To Do Instead, Pamela Foohey, Dalié Jiménez, Christopher K. Odinet

Faculty Scholarship

The coronavirus pandemic upturned Americans’ lives. The profound financial effects caused by even a few weeks of the coronavirus’ upheaval spurred Congress to pass the CARES Act, which purported to provide economic relief to individuals and businesses. For individuals, the CARES Act includes five provisions that were effectively designed to provide people money. Chief among those provisions are a direct payment in the form of a tax rebate and enhanced employment benefits.

Ultimately, this financial support will prove to be shockingly minimal. The direct payments represent a fraction of the average American households’ monthly budget. The unemployment benefits, while providing …

Mending Violence Against Workers In The Bangladesh Garment Industry: An Anti-Capitalist Perspective On Fabrications Of "Improving" Labor Conditions, Jenny Lam

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

The note examines the failure of neoliberal reforms in addressing labor exploitation in Bangladesh's garment industry following the 2013 Rana Plaza Collapse. It critiques initiatives like the Accord and Alliance for their limited scope and lack of enforceability, highlighting how they fail to address systemic issues such as low wages and gender-based violence. The analysis also points to the ineffectiveness of corporate codes of conduct and legal frameworks, emphasizing the need for a more comprehensive, worker-centered approach. The author advocates for community unionism and stronger legal protections, arguing that systemic change is necessary to empower workers and end exploitation.

Exploring The Esports Approach Of America's Three Major Leagues, Peter A. Carfagna

Articles

No abstract provided.

Lumping, Fairness, And Single People, Michael C. Pollack

Articles

This essay explores the distributional impact that three forms of lumping have on single people without children: seat-assignment and seat-bargaining on public transportation, work-hour allocation, and single-family zoning. The first two involve lumps pursued by individuals outside of any legal regime; the last involves lumping by law. In all three, I submit, we tend to choose to devalue—or perhaps do not even perceive—the costs faced by the single person, and to assign relatively juiced-up value to the costs faced by those with families. The result in these arenas is that both society and law routinely externalize (hidden) costs onto single …

A Different Set Of Rules? Nlrb Proposed Rule Making And Student Worker Unionization Rights, William A. Herbert, Joseph Van Der Naald

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This article presents data, precedent, and empirical evidence relevant to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposal to issue a new rule to exclude graduate assistants and other student employees from coverage under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The analysis in three parts. First, the authors show through an analysis of information from other federal agencies that the adoption of the proposed NLRB rule would exclude over 81,000 graduate assistants on private campuses from the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. Second, the article presents a legal history from the past half-century about unionization of student employees …

The Trouble With Identity And Progressive Origins In Defending Labour Law, Alvaro Santos

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Debate about labour regulation is not new. What is new is the urgency with which labour law reform is promoted as an important fix to economic woes. In recent years, calls for reform resound in poor and rich countries alike. The economic crisis in the United States and in Europe has intensified these debates, making labour regulation a prime target for reform. In several US states public sector unions have been under attack, depicted as a privileged class that drains public funds with high wages, cosy benefits, and retirement privileges that no other workers enjoy. Several European countries have introduced …

The Need For Federal Disclosure And Fraud Protection In The Workplace, Carlos Garcia

Legislation and Policy Brief

No abstract provided.