labor law

Cunningham-Parmeter on Federalism and Immigration

March 21, 2012 20:44

Apropos of yesterday's federalism decision in the FMLA/11th Amendment context, Keith Cunningham-Parmeter (Willamette) has a nice piece on federalism in immigration laws: Forced Federalism: States as Laboratories of Immigration Reform. Here's the abstract: This Article questions the experimental...

Fired for Wearing Orange

March 19, 2012 14:11

Joe Slater (Toledo) sends us word of this story from the SunSentinel; Four workers tell the story this way: For the past few months, some employees have worn orange shirts on pay-day Fridays so they'd look like a group when...

Just InTime For St. Patrick's Day: New ADA Bar Accessibility Requirements Went Into Effect Thursday

March 16, 2012 17:06

By: Alden J. Parker What do you think of when you think about St. Patrick’s Day? Corn Beef, Cabbage, Green Beer, John Wayne’s greatest movie “The Quiet Man”, new governmental regulations for bars and restaurants? WHAT!?!Just in time for one of the busiest days of the year...

Recently Published Scholarship: Indiana L.J.

March 16, 2012 14:39

Indiana Law Journal Symposium, Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration Volume 87, Number 1, Winter 2012 Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt & Matthew Kelley, Swimming in the Crosscurrents of History: Labor and Employment Law Under the Obama Administration, pg. 1....

D.A. Horton Appealed to 5th Circuit

March 13, 2012 13:43

ADR Prof Blog reports today that the NLRB’s decision in D.A. Horton, limiting arbitral class waivers in employment agreements, has been appealed to the Fifth Circuit. Given the political conservatism of the Fifth Circuit, I suspect that the only real...