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...
Apr 3 2024 Topics Labor & Employment Law • Litigation • Supreme Court Blog Post Goldstein v. CUNY: Can New York State compel Jewish professors to be represented by an antisemitic union? Glenn Taubman In Janus v. AFSCME, a public employee challenged the State of Illinois’ requirement that he...
Mar 29 2024 Topics Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Franchise With That? McDonald’s No-Poach Agreements Receive Antitrust Scrutiny Elizabeth K. Dorminey A case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has brought antitrust...
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 Podcast RTP's Fourth Branch Podcast Explainer Episode 64 - Union Release Time: Who Should Pay? Jonathan Riches, James Sherk RTP's Fourth Branch Podcast In this episode, Jon Riches and James Sherk discuss fundamental questions related to government labor...
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 27 2024 Video Banning Employee Noncompetes: Are Proposed FTC and State Prohibitions Legal and Wise? Tyler S. Badgley, Robert S. Driscoll, Mark A. Schuman, Evan Starr In January 2023, the FTC announced a proposed rule that would ban noncompete agreements across...
Feb 12 2024 Podcast FedSoc Events Race at Work: Can Businesses Treat People Differently on the Basis of Race? Jonathan Berry, Jay Edelson, Stacy Hawkins, Gregory G. Katsas, Jason C. Schwartz In June of last year, the Supreme Court held that consideration of applicants’ race in...
Feb 12 2024 Video FedSoc Events Race at Work: Can Businesses Treat People Differently on the Basis of Race? Jonathan Berry, Jay Edelson, Stacy Hawkins, Gregory G. Katsas, Jason C. Schwartz In June of last year, the Supreme Court held that consideration of applicants’ race in...
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...
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
Goldstein v. CUNY: Can New York State compel Jewish professors to be represented by an antisemitic union?
In Janus v. AFSCME, a public employee challenged the State of Illinois’ requirement that he...
Topics
Franchise With That? McDonald’s No-Poach Agreements Receive Antitrust Scrutiny
A case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has brought antitrust...
Topics
The ACLU: Champion of Individual Arbitration?
According to a spate of recent headlines, the ACLU has joined other private employers in...
Explainer Episode 64 - Union Release Time: Who Should Pay?
Jonathan Riches, James Sherk
RTP's Fourth Branch Podcast
In this episode, Jon Riches and James Sherk discuss fundamental questions related to government labor...
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...
Banning Employee Noncompetes: Are Proposed FTC and State Prohibitions Legal and Wise?
Tyler S. Badgley, Robert S. Driscoll, Mark A. Schuman, Evan Starr
In January 2023, the FTC announced a proposed rule that would ban noncompete agreements across...
Race at Work: Can Businesses Treat People Differently on the Basis of Race?
Jonathan Berry, Jay Edelson, Stacy Hawkins, Gregory G. Katsas, Jason C. Schwartz
In June of last year, the Supreme Court held that consideration of applicants’ race in...
Race at Work: Can Businesses Treat People Differently on the Basis of Race?
Jonathan Berry, Jay Edelson, Stacy Hawkins, Gregory G. Katsas, Jason C. Schwartz
In June of last year, the Supreme Court held that consideration of applicants’ race in...
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...