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.
Blawg Related Categories: Labor & Employment • Law Professors • Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law • University of Mississippi • University of Tennessee • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Workplace Prof Blog
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…