Workplace Prof Blog

Features regularly-updated posts on topics relating to the scholarship and accomplishments of fellow labor and employment law professors.

Author: Richard Bales, a professor at Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, and Paul M. Secunda, an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law, edit the Workplace Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network. Jeffrey M. Hirsch, an associate law professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law is a contributing editor.

Recent Posts from Workplace Prof Blog

Call for Papers: Int'l Conference on Employee Representation in New World of Work
Christian Brunelle (Université Laval (Québec)) writes to tell us of the call for papers for the upcoming conference Employee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rights, Voice, Performance and Power. Jointly…
Labor Market Flexibility and Economic Growth
Alvaro Santos (Georgetown) has just published (Virginia Journal of Int’l L.) Labor Flexibility, Legal Reform, and Economic Development. Here's a summary: The current global financial crisis has provoked intense criticism of the regulatory framework for…
Cherry on Working for (Virtually) Minimum Wage: Applying the Fair Labor Standards Act in Cyberspace
Miriam Cherry (McGeorge, Visiting Georgia) (she likes "Georges" I guess) has posted on SSRN her piece in the Alabama Law Review: Working for (Virtually) Minimum Wage: Applying the Fair Labor Standards Act in Cyberspace. From…
ENDA Now "Top Priority" for Obama Administration
Welcome news from the National Law Journal yesterday: The Obama administration renewed its push today for legislation that would prohibit employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. Thomas Perez, the U.S. Justice Department's assistant attorney general…
Walmart Canadian Trademark Case
From one of our favorite Canadian workplace bloggers, David Doorey (York Univ.): I don't know if you are familiar with this case, but there is an interesting and funny case heading to a Quebec court…
Worldwide Union Density
The New York Times' Economix has a post on the OECD's recent report on union density. They link to a spreadsheet with the data, but more fun (to the extent that looking at a lot…
Unemployment Is Over 10%
Government officials have been saying for months that the unemployment rate would break the 10% barrier and, after the October data were released it's finally done so---standing now at 10.2%, a 26-year high that is…
Seton Hall Forum Deadline Reminder
A reminder that the deadline for submitting proposals to Seton Hall's Fourth Annual Employment & Labor Law Scholars Forum is fast approaching. The deadline for paper proposals is November 10, 2009. According to the organizers:…
Gibb on Oakwood Trilogy
Tyler Gibb has an article forthcoming in the Michigan State University Journal of Medicine and Law that may be of interest to our readers: A Smack on the Chin or a Nibble? Content Analysis of…
Griffith on The NLRA Defamation Defense
Kati Griffith (Cornell - ILR) has just posted on SSRN her article in the American University Law Review: The NLRA Defamation Defense: Doomed Dinosaur or Diamond in the Rough? Here is the abstract: With the…