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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.

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Recent Posts from Workplace Prof Blog

  • Work Email: "I Always Feel Like ... Somebody's Watching Me"

    No, this post is not about the singer Rockwell or that annoying Geico commercial, but about whether you should just assume that your boss monitors your email. A new Wall Street Journal article suggests that…

  • 11th Cir. Miserly Construction of Title VII

    No more jumps out of the page and slaps you in the face, but the Eleventh Circuit still does not think that a worker often called ‘boy’ established a racially hostile environment. In Alexander v.…

  • Drummonds on Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine

    Henry Drummonds (Lewis & Clark) has provided me with a draft of his recent article in the Louisiana Law Review: Reforming Labor Law by Reforming Labor Law Preemption Doctrine to Allow the States to Make…

  • Zimmer on the Disparate Impact Consequences of Ricci

    Mike Zimmer is up on Concurring Opinions with his next installment on the meaning of the Ricci v. DeStefano case for the future of employment discrimination law. This current post focuses on the disparate impact…

  • Most Unusual Employee Requests

    Career Builder, the online job seekers/help wanted site recently posted the results of one of its entertaining surveys, this one on most unusual employee requests. Here are some of the best: Request to allow people…

  • Yamada: Current Status of Workplace Bullying

    David Yamada (Suffolk), leader of the anti-bullying movement, has just posted on SSRN his article (forthcoming Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal) Workplace Bullying and American Employment Law: A Ten-Year Progress Report and Assessment. Here's…

  • EBRI Reports

    Employee Benefit Research Institute has just released a trio of new reports: Craig Copeland, Retirement Plan Participation and Asset Allocation, 2007. Paul Fronstin, Availability, Contributions, Account Balances, and Rollovers in Account-Based Health Plans, 2006-2009. Craig…

  • Canadian Views on EFCA

    Just Labour: A Journal of Work and Society, which is an electronic journal published by the York University's Centre for Research on Work and Society, has just published a collection of articles entitled, "A Canadian…

  • EEOC Listening Sessions on ADA Amendments

    The EEOC is holding listening sessions on its proposed rules interpreting the ADA Amendments Act. BNA's Daily Labor Report (subscription required) has a story on the first session. As is no surprise, disability groups are…

  • Anti-Sweatshop Victory

    The student anti-sweatshop movement has just achieved a big victory in pressuring Russell Athletic to rehire 1,200 workers fired in Honduras after they unionized. The student pressure prompted over 90 colleges to end Russell's ability…


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