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 typepad/qaBDhttp://feedburner.google.com The Election Rules Are Back tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e6212bc2970c 2012-01-26T13:13:37-05:00 2012-01-26T18:13:37Z 2012-01-26T18:13:37Z One big question when the NLRB adopted the pared down set of election rules was what the Board would do if/when it got more members. Given that the recess appointments have happened, it's not a big suprise to think that... laborprof lpb Labor Law CEPR Report on Low Wage Work tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016300296846970d 2012-01-26T11:32:48-05:00 2012-01-26T16:32:48Z 2012-01-26T16:32:48Z The Center for Economic and Policy Research, a progressive economic thinktank, has issued a report on low wage work in rich countries. Low Wage Lessons compares the percentage of the workforce in low wage work, the strength of collective bargaining,... laborprof lpb International & Comparative L.E.L. Labor and Employment News Wage & Hour Workplace Trends NLRB GC Issues Report on Social Media Cases tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167610e0ad4970b 2012-01-25T09:44:57-05:00 2012-01-25T14:44:57Z 2012-01-25T14:44:57Z NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon has just released a Report of the Acting General Counsel on Social Media Cases. This report describes the 14 cases the NLRB has seen recently. You can follow this link to the Report or... laborprof lpb Labor Law Gould on the NBA Lockout tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01630018e2d1970d 2012-01-25T09:32:45-05:00 2012-01-25T15:24:59Z 2012-01-25T14:32:45Z Bill Gould has just published, in Stanford Law Review Online, a retrospective on the 2011 NBA lockout. Bill's take-away: "What appeared to be a rout of the players in November emerged as a reasonable face-saving compromise." The article is The... laborprof lpb Labor Law Scholarship Fourth Circuit: State Courts Lack Jurisdiction over Title VII Claims tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01630018c0ca970d 2012-01-25T09:19:18-05:00 2012-01-25T14:19:18Z 2012-01-25T14:19:18Z Jon Harkavy (Patterson & Harkavy) writes to tell us of Bullock v. Napolitano. Rather than re-invent the wheel, I'll just post Jon's description of the case: [The] Fourth Circuit ...decision of [Bullock v. Napolitano], issued Monday afternoon, [] effectively forecloses... laborprof lpb Employment Discrimination Davidov on Labour Law's Goals tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016300187aa5970d 2012-01-25T08:57:14-05:00 2012-01-25T14:00:39Z 2012-01-25T13:57:14Z Guy Davidov (Hebrew U.) has just posted on SSRN his article Articulating Labour Law's Goals: Why and How. Here's the abstract: It may seem obvious that before doing anything – let alone something as important as interpreting or reforming labour... laborprof lpb Labor Law Scholarship Western Ontario Labour Law Conference: Faultlines and Borderlines in Labo(u)r Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01676104ef04970b 2012-01-24T18:03:29-05:00 2012-01-26T00:31:20Z 2012-01-24T23:03:29Z The University of Western Ontarion Law Faculty is hosting a wonderful set of labour law conferences on March 2 and 3, 2012. The theme of the 2012 lecture/conference will be Faultlines and Borderlines in Labo(u)r Law: The Future of the... laborprof lpb Conferences & Colloquia International & Comparative L.E.L. Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll on race, sex, attitudes and feelings of well-being tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0163000339eb970d 2012-01-23T17:25:38-05:00 2012-01-23T22:25:38Z 2012-01-23T22:25:38Z The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation have released the results of a recent survey on feelings of well being and attitudes by race and sex on such wide ranging topics on how secure people feel, what they are worried... laborprof lpb Employment Discrimination Labor and Employment News Religion Worklife Issues Workplace Trends More Labor News . . . . tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5f59b97970c 2012-01-23T11:53:28-05:00 2012-01-23T16:54:22Z 2012-01-23T16:53:28Z There have been several more recent labor developments/stories that are worth a look. Among them: A possible issue for the Supreme Court? Disagreeing with both the Third and Fourth Circuits, the Eleventh Circuit (2-1) in Mulhall v. UNITE HERE, has... laborprof lpb Labor and Employment News Labor Law Recent NLRB Decisions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760f056d1970b 2012-01-22T22:22:52-05:00 2012-01-23T03:23:47Z 2012-01-23T03:22:52Z There have been a couple notable NLRB decisions recently. Among them: The NLRB, in a case from the previous Board, has extended its Speciality Healthcare rule to a non-healthcare workplace in DTG Operations. The bottom line is that this continues... laborprof lpb Labor Law Board GC Seeks Changes in Deferral Policy tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760e45897970b 2012-01-21T11:17:42-05:00 2012-01-21T16:17:42Z 2012-01-21T16:17:42Z Citing concerns about delays in processing grievances through parties’ contractual grievance-arbitration procedures, NLRB Acting General Counsel Lafe Solomon has proposed that the Board consider revising the existing policy of deferring charges to arbitration in certain circumstances. When it is anticipated... laborprof lpb Labor Law A 2-Fer on Equal Pay tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5e5732d970c 2012-01-21T11:11:34-05:00 2012-01-21T16:11:34Z 2012-01-21T16:11:34Z Deborah Eisenberg (Maryland) has just posted on SSRN two articles dealing with equal pay issues. The abstracts are posted after the break; the articles are: Money, Sex, and Sunshine: A Market Based Approach to Pay Discrimination, 43 Ariz. St. L.J.... laborprof lpb Employment Discrimination Scholarship Part 2 of Feuer on Tax Qualification of Pension Plan Trusts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5e2cba2970c 2012-01-21T01:11:09-05:00 2012-01-21T06:11:33Z 2012-01-21T06:11:09Z Following last week's Part 1, Albert Feuer has posted Part 2 of his new Tax Management Weekly Report article, "Scriveners’ Errors, Drafting Errors, Operational Failures, Retroactive Amendments, Reformations, ERISA, and the Tax Qualification of Pension Plan Trusts." According to the... laborprof lpb Pension and Benefits Scholarship AALS Section Officers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5e2c7d5970c 2012-01-21T01:05:49-05:00 2012-01-21T06:05:49Z 2012-01-21T06:05:49Z Following the recent AALS Annual Meeting, the two labor and employment related sections have a new set of officers. The Section on Employment Discrimination has Sandra Sperino as Chair, Deb Widiss as Chair-Elect, Angela Onwuachi-Willig as the Secretary-Treasurer, and the... laborprof lpb Conferences & Colloquia Kodak Bankruptcy Motivated by Retiree Benefits tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ffe4fa7a970d 2012-01-20T09:17:35-05:00 2012-01-20T14:17:54Z 2012-01-20T14:17:35Z Today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports: Here's one way of understanding Eastman Kodak Co.'s problems: The company has twice as many retirees drawing benefits in the U.S. as it has active employees world-wide. Now, it hopes to scale back... laborprof lpb Pension and Benefits