Posted on March 6, 2024Author National Law ForumCategories Labor & Employment, Sports, UnionsTags athletes union, athletes unionizing, basketball, business, college athletes union, college basketball, college sports, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth College men’s basketball team, Employment Law, government,...
California made history last night. With the support of California’s unions, the Legislature voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $10, the highest minimum wage in the country. The wage will be implemented in two steps: an increase to $9 per hour in July of next year, followed ...
and unity. Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama wrapped up day two of the DNC with the admonition that we have to spend all our energy fighting for democracy. In support, the unions have near unanimity on who is on their side. With that thought in mind, convention at...
Somehow, the intensity of the discussion about free will puzzles me. For me, it just does not matter whether human actions are predetermined at the initiation of the universe or not. In either case, acting individuals should be held responsible for the consequences of their actions because respo...
(A few states, such as Washington, have public workers’ compensation insurance funds with some limited powers over workplace safety. Unions in Washington strongly support this system. When Liberty Mutual and other private insurers tried to enter the market a few years ago, labor fought the ...
Employment lawyers in Denver, Colorado help clients with labor law problems.Labor law governs the relationship between employer and the workforce as a unit. Often this involves unions; however, employees may informally organized into a protected group to improve workplace conditions, pay, and other ...
The Colorado Labor Peace Act allows unions to create agreements with employers to require union membership; but it sets a high bar to unionize a workplace. For a union to be recognized as the representative of employees there must be two elections in which the union wins both. It must win...
France's Chinese immigrants are navigating restrictive labor rules, in stark contrast to the work-life balance long treasured by many French and vigorously defended by their unions over the past century.
Ephlin said he assured the cooperation-minded Japanese that, whenever American companies permit cooperation, unions welcome it. However, he told the Japanese, U.S. companies too often spend “huge sums of money hiring anti-union consultants and then, when a union does win the right to represen...
project, as well as $764 million from local authorities. While the benefits successfully tempted Foxconn into agreeing to locating the factory in the state, the manufacturer still has to meet a number of targets relating to hiring, wages, and investments by specific dates...