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

To Shave or Not to Shave: That is the Question in This RFRA Workplace Case
In the last two weeks or so, my employment discrimination law class has been studying disparate impact litigation. One of the more challenging cases that we study is the Fitzpatrick case from the 11th Circuit…
Symposium: Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA
The Yale Journal of Law and Feminism will be holding a Symposium entitled: Respecting Expecting: The 30th Anniversary of the PDA, on November 7-8, 2008. Here are some highlights: Please join the Yale Journal of…
SSRN Top-10 List of Recent Employment & Labor Downloads
Robert Novy-Marx & Joshua D. Raugh, The Intergenerational Transfer of Public Pension Promises (158). John R. Graham (left), Si Li (center), & Jiaping Qiu (right), Managerial Ability and Executive Compensation (95). Orly Lobel, Intellectual Property…
Possible Settlement in UAW-Foxwoods Dispute?
As we've discussed previously, the UAW and Foxwoods Casino have been contesting whether the NLRB has jurisdiction over the tribal casino. We now learn, thanks to an e-mailed joint press release, that: The UAW and…
Connecticut Strikes Down Statutory Same Sex Marriage Ban
Connecticut became the third state in the union today to declare that its state constitution prohibits limiting the right to marry to different sex couples. In Kerrigan v. Comm'r of Pub. Health, the Connecticut Supreme…
Harkavy on the Supreme Court's 2007 Term
Jonathan Harkavy (Patterson & Harkavy) has just posted on SSRN his article Supreme Court of the United States Employment Law Commentary: 2007 Term. This is a case-by-case description and analysis of the cases from the…
Race, Unions, and the Presidential Election
NPR's Morning Edition this morning ran a story about Richard Trumka, UMW President and secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, who for the last several months has been giving speeches on the issue of race and the…
Analysis of Oral Argument Transcript in Crawford Retaliation Case
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville yesterday afternoon. Scotusblog’s Scotuswiki page on the case can be found here. Crawford had cooperated with Metro’s internal investigation…
Another Immigration Raid
This is becoming a familiar refrain. Yesterday, ICE raided a South Carolina poultry processing plan, arresting about 300 apparently undocumented workers. According to BNA's Daily Labor Report (subscription required): ICE agents executed federal search warrants…
St. George Warehouse Memo
General Counsel Meisburg has recently issued a memo offering guidance for regional attorneys' application of the St. George Warehouse case (see here for description of the decision). According to the description by BNA's Daily Labor…