Labor attorneys might find themselves working to help lawmakers understand their positions as they draft and consider changes to labor laws on a state or national level. Other Employment Laws Labor law is only one part of employment law. In addition to labor laws, there are laws that govern al...
What is Labor Law?Labor Law is normally but erroneously understood as the law that governs a particular kind of relationship, namely the relationship of (subordinate) employment.Social Science Electronic Publishing
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Child Labor Today Child Worker in a North Carolina Tobacco Field. Image via Human Rights Watch. Today, laws vary somewhat state-to-state on how old one must be to work, but these laws are especially lenient in agriculture. Under federal law, children under the age of 12 can workunlimited...
Any organization that is subject to federal regulation will likely be affected by this Supreme Court decision, but what does it mean for the National Labor Relations Act and labor law specifically? Please join lawyers from our labor-management relations team, including a former National Labor Relati...
This Paper suggests that the answer to the question “what is domestic labor law for?”—commonly regarded as securing “justice against markets” or a justified tax on market activity—has informed the search for the answer for the question “what is international labor law for.” This is re...
H-1B petitioning employer is required to file a Labor Condition Application (LCA) with the Department of Labor (DOL) attesting to a number of items, including payment of prevailing wages for the position, and the working conditions offered. The LCA m
Are you responsible for managing your company’s labor law posters? You've presumably asked yourself if you need labor law posters and the response is doubtless, "yes". On the off chance that you are a business with something like at least one paid worker in their place of business should...
But a truly flexible labor market only exists when there are few labor force regulations in place. When this is the case, employers are able to set wages, fire employees, and change employee work hours at will. And the changes can go either way. ...
The freedom of petition is enshrined in the First Amendment, which states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and...