State of New York et al v. Scalia

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York found that the US DOL’s new final rule on joint employer status violated the Administrative Procedures Act because it …

Judge Blocks Labor Department’s Narrowed Joint Employer Test

A federal judge in Manhattan has declared the most consequential elements of the Trump administration’s recent joint employer regulation illegal, halting what’s been a priority for Republicans and the business community. …

Trump’s National Labor Relations Board Is Sabotaging Its Own Mission

“On a June afternoon in 2019, in front of a statue of George Washington at Federal Hall in New York City’s financial district, more than 100 construction workers and activists …

State Attorneys General Are Helping Workers in Hard Times

These are tough times for workers, with COVID-related risks layered atop a grossly distorted power disparity that has long enabled businesses to degrade working conditions and violate labor laws. Workers …

Op-ed: This Labor Day, workers deserve protection and a Clean New Deal

“Fueled in no small part by catastrophic leadership failures in the White House, more than 186,000 lives have been lost so far from COVID-19, and the tally increases each day. It …

EEOC Limits Power to Bring ‘Pattern or Practice’ Bias Claims (1)

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission doesn’t have authority to sue employers over sweeping job patterns or practices that allegedly lead to workplace bias without first going through procedural steps laid …

TAKING BUSINESS LAW BACK FROM THE ECONOMISTS: BUILDING WORKER POWER THROUGH ANTITRUST REFORM

“The political economy of work in the United States is on the skids. In April 2020, unemployment skyrocketed,reaching a level not seen since the worst days of the Depression in the 1930s. …

LERA Webinar: “The USMCA (the New NAFTA): Moving to Effective Enforcement of Labor Rights”

Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:30 – 1:30 pm Eastern Time (New York Time) Register Here: https://www.leraweb.org/ler-in-2020 The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) is hosting a series of webinars this Fall …

September 17, 2020

Maintaining effective U.S. labor standards enforcement through the coronavirus recession

“Workers in the United States are experiencing record unemployment at the same time that governments across the country are facing extraordinary budget deficits. Evidence from the Great Recession of 2007—2009 …

Uber may face big fines for stonewalling on sexual assault data

Uber has spent nine months battling California regulators’ demands for detailed information on sexual harassment and assault claims made by its customers and drivers. The company’s favored legal strategy of …