http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/ A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network en-US 2009-07-17T15:00:41-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/crs-report-on-401k-plans.html Thanks to Pat Purcell for sending us the Congressional Research Service's report for Congress on 401k plans and participation, issued earlier this week. Here is the summary: Over the past 25 years, defined contribution plans – including 401(k) plans –... Government Reports laborprof lpb 2009-07-17T15:00:41-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/new-efca-compromise-with-no-cardcheck.html Steven Greenhouse (New York Times) is reporting that a new EFCA bill looks to be coming together. It doesn't appear to be finalized yet (although please let me know if you've found draft language), but the basic outline seems to... Labor Law laborprof lpb 2009-07-17T09:11:48-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/the-fizzling-ricci-case.html Count me among those who thought that Frank Ricci's appearance at Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings would provide some fireworks. However, based on what I've seen of the transcript, there wasn't much there. Dana Milbank agrees, as he explains in a... Labor and Employment News laborprof lpb 2009-07-17T00:44:09-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/jacqueline-berrien-nominated-to-chair-eeoc.html Via Ross Runkel's Employment Law Memo comes news that President Obama has nominated Jacqueline Berrien to chair the EEOC. From the White House Press Release: President Obama said, "Jacqueline Berrien has spent her entire career fighting to give voice to... Beltway Developments laborprof lpb 2009-07-16T20:55:53-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/eeoc-issues-employee-guidance-on-waivers-in-severence-agreements.html Jon Hyman over at Ohio Employer's Law Blog notes that the EEOC has issued guidance on waivers in severence agreements. With the large rise in layoffs in the last year or so, these waivers have become more and more common.... Beltway Developments laborprof lpb 2009-07-16T14:31:22-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/secunda-on-judicial-activism.html Over at the ACS Blog, Paul Secunda (Marquette) has a post on judicial "activism." Focusing on a colloquy between Judge Sotomayor and some Senators over the Ricci case (which will heat up today when Frank Ricci testifies), Secunda decries the... Employment Discrimination laborprof lpb 2009-07-16T11:50:30-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/susan-bisom-rappthomas-jefferson-provides-us-with-this-post-about-last-weeks-decision-by-the-ninth-circuit-in-doe-v-wal-m.html Susan Bisom-Rapp (Thomas Jefferson) provides us with this post about last week's decision by the Ninth Circuit in Doe v. Wal-Mart: The Doe v. Wal-Mart decision is in, with the Ninth Circuit ruling against all the claims asserted by workers... Employment Common Law International & Comparative L.E.L. laborprof lpb 2009-07-15T12:57:56-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/textual-harassment.html The National Law Journal has an article today about the way that texting has become a more common medium for workplace harassment, creating a headache for employers and a wealth of evidence for employees who sue. Employers are may have... Employment Discrimination laborprof lpb 2009-07-15T12:09:20-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/law-prof-blog-rankings.html Paul Caron at Tax Prof Blog has the latest rankings of law-professor-edited blogs over the last 12 months. Pardon the self-congratulation, but this blog did well. We had over 400,000 visits and moved up a couple of spots from last... About This Blog laborprof lpb 2009-07-15T10:04:16-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/underemployment.html The New York Times has a recent article on a subject I've noted quite a bit amidst all the unemployment data: underemployment. This term refers to workers who have jobs--so are not technically unemployment--but who are working less than the... Labor and Employment News laborprof lpb 2009-07-15T00:07:33-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/update-on-labor-meeting-with-obama.html Updating our earlier post on a meeting with labor leaders and the White House, the Detroit News's description is about what you'd expect, with a lot of stress on the need to work together. The participants in the meeting organized... Labor and Employment News laborprof lpb 2009-07-14T11:08:31-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/sotomayor-on-ricci.html We'll hear more later, but this morning during her confirmation hearing, Judge Sotomayor gave a brief take on the Ricci case (according to the New York Times): "This was not a quota case, this was not an affirmative action case,... Labor and Employment News laborprof lpb 2009-07-14T10:58:42-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/borzi-confirmed-as-head-of-ebsa.html This past Friday, Phyllis Borzi was confirmed without debate by voice vote by the Senate to be the head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) at the Department of Labor. In that position, she will tackle the myriad of... Labor/Employment History laborprof lpb 2009-07-13T12:16:15-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/law-profs-as-ministers.html The National Law Journal has an interesting report on the litigation between Ave Maria School of Law and three former professors who allege they were were suspended and banned from campus after they objected to the way the law school... Employment Common Law laborprof lpb 2009-07-10T14:40:38-04:00 http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2009/07/hayes-to-be-republican-nominee-to-nlrb.html And then there were three. After a delay following the naming of the Democratic nominees (likely the result of Senate Republicans), the White House has just announced that they have nominated Brian Hayes as the final--Republican--member of the NLRB. They... Labor Law laborprof lpb 2009-07-10T09:58:29-04:00