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Law Professor Blogs Network | Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
9M ago
I was very surprised during the pandemic at how little some unions knew about workers' compensation. I'll be keeping a close look during this period of union agitation to see what is happening in collective bargaining agreements relating to workers ..read more
Law Professor Blogs Network | Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
9M ago
For several years I have been voicing my suspicions that the Gig economy was bigger than was being admitted. A new-ish study from Upjohn Institute persuades me that my instincts have not been failing me: We find that, upon probing ..read more
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9M ago
My review of Stepanie Bornstein's Confronting the Racial Pay Gap, 75 Vand. L. Rev. 1401 (2022), has just been posted on the Jotwell (Journal of Things We Like Lots) website. For those who may not know, Jotwell publishes timely reviews ..read more
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10M ago
I’m not entirely sure what “reshoring” or “Bidenomics” mean, and I don’t think I’m alone. (See Brooke Sutherland’s Bloomberg piece of 6/30/23). According to a June 1 CNBC article, however: A new “reshoring” trend is set to upend global supply ..read more
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10M ago
Nero fiddled, and I really don’t know how white powder made its way into the White House. But I do know that the California Supreme Court just issued an opinion in Kuciemba v. Victory Woodworks that will be incredibly hurtful ..read more
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10M ago
Hat tip to my research assistant Alexa Benson for alerting me to the Justia Workers' Compensation materials (especially the 50-state comparative survey). I plan to begin aggressively exploring with my RAs this summer open source workers' compensation comparative materials. Hopefully ..read more
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1y ago
Some obvious things take their time to hit me in just the right way that I take notice. I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about what I perceive as the inherent unfairness for all workers embedded in ..read more
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1y ago
We will be having a conference at the Saint Louis University School of Law on workers' compensation on Tuesday, October 11: In 1970, Congress noted in its prelude to enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act that “serious questions ..read more
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1y ago
As we predicted here, the Defense Production Act defenses in the worker death cases by Tyson went nowhere. From Bruce Rolfsen at Bloomberg: A Trump administration executive order doesn’t protect Tyson Foods Inc. from workers’ Covid-19 death and injury liability ..read more
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2y ago
I have posted a recap of the Hanford oral argument on the SCOTUS blog. It might not be easy to get to the merits of United States v. Washington. A funny thing happened on the way to oral argument: The ..read more