Apr 22 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Federalism • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Whither Expertise? The Decline and Fall of Nonpartisan Policy at the National Labor Relations Board Alexander Thomas MacDonald Last week, the National Labor Relations Board decided Chemtrade West US LLC, a case about...
Apr 9 2024 Topics Labor & Employment Law • Law & Economics • State Governments Blog Post Fast Food, Minimum Wages, and the Pervasive Myth of Benevolent Unions: Why the Labor Movement Pushes for Stricter Labor Laws Alexander Thomas MacDonald Starting this month, California’s fast-food workers will earn a minimum of $20 an hour. The...
Mar 19 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post The ACLU: Champion of Individual Arbitration? Alexander Thomas MacDonald According to a spate of recent headlines, the ACLU has joined other private employers in...
Mar 4 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Small Markets, Big Unions: Is the FTC Promoting Competition or Unions With Its Grocery Merger Complaint? Alexander Thomas MacDonald Last week, the FTC sued to block a merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons. The...
Feb 7 2024 Video FedSoc Forums Loper and Labor Law: Implications of a Possible Decrease in Deference on New Rulemaking Alexander Thomas MacDonald, Tammy Dee McCutchen On January 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and...
Feb 7 2024 Podcast FedSoc Forums Loper and Labor Law: Implications of a Possible Decrease in Deference on New Rulemaking Alexander Thomas MacDonald, Tammy Dee McCutchen On January 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and...
Jan 10 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Labor & Employment Law • Law & Economics • State Governments Blog Post News Sectoral Bargaining for Rideshare Drivers in Massachusetts: Legally Dubious, Economically Disastrous Alexander Thomas MacDonald Voter initiatives can be a double-edged sword. While they often allow voters to bypass legislative...
Jan 4 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Jurisprudence • Labor & Employment Law • Supreme Court • Environmental Law & Property Rights Blog Post Does Modern Labor Law Violate the Fifth Amendment? Alexander Thomas MacDonald In December, the U.S. Department of labor closed the public-comment period for new regulations under...
Nov 10 2023 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Labor & Employment Law • Separation of Powers Blog Post News Is the NLRB Unconstitutional? The Courts May Finally Decide. Alexander Thomas MacDonald This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear three major cases involving the...
Oct 11 2023 Publication Federalist Society Review The Labor Law Enigma: Article III, Judicial Power, and the National Labor Relations Board Alexander Thomas MacDonald Federalist Society Review, Volume 24 Axon Enterprises v. FTC[1] wasn’t supposed to be about labor law. In fact, it wasn’t...
Topics
Whither Expertise? The Decline and Fall of Nonpartisan Policy at the National Labor Relations Board
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board decided Chemtrade West US LLC, a case about...
Topics
Fast Food, Minimum Wages, and the Pervasive Myth of Benevolent Unions: Why the Labor Movement Pushes for Stricter Labor Laws
Starting this month, California’s fast-food workers will earn a minimum of $20 an hour. The...
Topics
The ACLU: Champion of Individual Arbitration?
According to a spate of recent headlines, the ACLU has joined other private employers in...
Topics
Small Markets, Big Unions: Is the FTC Promoting Competition or Unions With Its Grocery Merger Complaint?
Last week, the FTC sued to block a merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons. The...
Loper and Labor Law: Implications of a Possible Decrease in Deference on New Rulemaking
Alexander Thomas MacDonald, Tammy Dee McCutchen
On January 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and...
Loper and Labor Law: Implications of a Possible Decrease in Deference on New Rulemaking
Alexander Thomas MacDonald, Tammy Dee McCutchen
On January 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and...
Topics
Sectoral Bargaining for Rideshare Drivers in Massachusetts: Legally Dubious, Economically Disastrous
Voter initiatives can be a double-edged sword. While they often allow voters to bypass legislative...
Topics
Does Modern Labor Law Violate the Fifth Amendment?
In December, the U.S. Department of labor closed the public-comment period for new regulations under...
Topics
Is the NLRB Unconstitutional? The Courts May Finally Decide.
This term, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear three major cases involving the...
The Labor Law Enigma: Article III, Judicial Power, and the National Labor Relations Board
Alexander Thomas MacDonald
Federalist Society Review, Volume 24
Axon Enterprises v. FTC[1] wasn’t supposed to be about labor law. In fact, it wasn’t...