As many readers know, Minnesota Law School two great labor and employment faculty members–Steve Befort (who is still teaching on an emeritus basis) and Laura Cooper–retired over the last couple of years. The school just hired their replacements and hit
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NYC LERA: NYC’s Worker Protection Laws and its Impact on the Workplace
Bill Herbert (Hunter College, CUNY) tells us about the upcoming NYC LERA program NYC Workplace and Labor Law Update: A Look at NYC’s Worker Protection Laws and its Impact on the Workplace, April 26, 2022, 6 – 7:30 pm…
DC LERA: Gig Economy in Europe
Tequila Brooks tells us of the program Gig Economy in Europe: Examples from Sweden, Netherlands and Germany on Tuesday, April 26th, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET. Topics to be discussed include working conditions in the gig economy in…
Professor Porter to Lead Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace
I write with terrific news. The Martin H. Malin Institute for Law and the Workplace has named Professor Nicole Buonocore Porter as its new director. Nicole will be joining the Chicago-Kent faculty in the fall.
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Shnitser: Professional Employer Organizations & Workplace Benefits
Natalya Shnitser (Boston College) has just posted on SSRN her article "Professional" Employers and the Transformation of Workplace Benefits (39 Yale Journal on Regulation Bulletin 99 (2021)). Here's the abstract:Workers in the United States depend on their employers for a…
New Ed.: Employment Law in a Nutshell
Congratulations to Joe Seiner (South Carolina) on the publication of the 5th edition of Employment Law in a Nutshell (with the late Robert Covington). Here's the publisher's description:This Nutshell provides an overview of individual employee rights and responsibilities. It addresses…
A Celebration of the life and work of Minna Kotkin
Friend-of-blog Ann McGinley sends along the following invitation to the celebration of the life and work of Minna Kotkin. Minna was a friend and mentor to so many of us in the labor and employment community, and she will be…
Duff Rethinks Workers’ Comp
Michael Duff (Wyoming, en route to SLU) has just posted on SSRN his new article (forthcoming Kentucky L.J.) Fifty More Years of Ineffable Quo?: Workers' Compensation and the Right to Personal Security. I usually edit down abstracts to one…
Interesting Article on Remote Arbitration
Employment law scholars and practitioners might be interested in this new article by Professor David Horton, Forced Remote Arbitration. Here is the abstract:Courts responded to COVID-19 by going remote. In early 2020, as lockdown orders swept through the country, virtual…
The Tension Between McDonnell Douglas and Bostock
The McDonnell Douglas test is one framework that courts use to analyze discrimination cases. The Supreme Court enunciated the test in 1973, and even though the Court has decided several cases to clarify the test, confusion remains. Two recent articles…