Topic
Worker Protection
188 published works
Labor Law Prof Blog
Employers as Immigration Cops
Stephen Lee (Stanford) has just posted on SSRN his article Private Immigration Screening in the Workplace (forthcoming Stanford L. Rev.). Here's the abstract:Althoughpublic law scholars have long addressed the problems…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Release of “Made in L.A.”
Announcing the release of the new film, "Made in L.A.", the focus of which is on immigration, labor, and sweatshops."Made in L.A." is a film that follows the story of…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Globalization, Flexibility, and Worker Protection
Kathy Stone has just posted on SSRN her chapter In the Shadow of Globalization: Changing Firm-Level Employment Practices and Shifting Employment Risk in the United States. The chapter is part…
Nano and Other Emerging Chemical Technologies Blog
NIOSH Reports Progress Made in Protecting Workers from Nanomaterials
In February 2007, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) released a report entitled Progress Toward Safe Nanotechnology in the Workplace, which summarizes the progress made by the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Study on Workplace Protections
By Family Law
"''More countries are providing the workplace protections that millions of Americans can only dream of,'' said the study's lead author, Jody Heymann, founder of the Harvard-based Project on Global Working…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court News
Labor Protections under New York Law Not PremptedFrom http://howappealing.law.com/: Second Circuit holds that federal Immigration Reform and Control Act does not preempt New York's "scaffold law," which entitles an illegal…
ContractsProf Blog
Alvarez on Fixed-Term Employment Contracts
University of Chicago economist Fernando Alvarez has a new paper looking at the growing use of fixed term employment contracts as a way of dealing with high employment-protection legal regimes. …
Labor Law Prof Blog
Granholm Vetoes MI Anti-Ergonomics Bill
On the State OSHA front, Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) of Michigan has vetoed a legislative attempt to strike down the state's occupation and health safety agency's ergonomic standards. According to…