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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Texas Center for Women in Law Seeks Executive Director
The Center for Women in Law at The University of Texas School of Law is asking for your help in our search for a new Executive Director. Founded in 2007 by thirty women attorneys, the…
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Targeting Employers Instead of Employees
The Obama administration has begun moving away from the well-publicized Bush administration criminal raids of undocumented workers. The enforcement emphasis is shifting instead to going after the employers who hire these workers--through civil sanctions, not…
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The Conscience Rule Survives
Despite some earlier suggestions that the Obama administration may implement a substantial roll-back of the "conscious rule" for health care workers, recent comments by the President suggest a more limited retreat from the recent Bush…
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June Unemployment Data
The June unemployment numbers are in and they're bad. Although May gave some hope because the job losses had begun to slow down, they picked again in June. The overall trend the last three months…
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Public Employee Bloggers Beware? For Now
In mid-June of this year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the Richerson v. Beckon case, involving a First Amendment claim by a public school teacher after she was demoted for comments she posted…
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In Praise of Legal Layoffs
Dan Slater--former author of the Wall Street Journal Legal Blog--has a piece in the New York Times singing the praises of law firm layoffs. Because I've personally witnessed too many students fail to get jobs…
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Bar Rejection Because of Excessive Student Loans
The New York Times is reporting on someone rejected from the bar because of excessive student loans. The story is complicated--involving tragic injuries, accusations of excessive fees, and his failure to make any payments--so you…
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EREPJ Call for Papers
Marty Malin writes about a special call for papers in the Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal: Employee Rights & Employment Policy Journal is planning a special issue honoring Clyde Summers, the Jefferson Fordham Professor…
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D.C. Circuit Denies En Banc in Laurel Baye
The D.C. Circuit just announced that it is denying the NLRB's petition for rehearing en banc in Laurel Baye. The order also noted that there was no request for a vote among the judges [Download…
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Supreme Court Grants Cert in Employment Cases
Ross Runkel (Employment Law Memo) has a round-up of three employment-related cases granted by the Supreme Court the last couple of weeks. The cases involve the LMRDA, ERISA and the False Claims Act. Here's a…