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Another contrived government shutdown compromises enforcement of workplace protections
January 1st, 2019
After making a number of threats over the past year, the Trump Administration recently imposed a Federal government shutdown with no end in sight. The Trump Administration has forced the shutdown in an effort to extract money for the construction and…
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Predictions for 2019 . . . the certainty of uncertainty
December 17th, 2018
The seemingly ongoing and escalating controversies at the Federal level make the legal environment somewhat unpredictable. If current trends persist, however, the Trump Administration will continue to attempt to limit workplace protections and relate…
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Mid-term election results mean the potential for more workplace rights and protections
November 12th, 2018
In Minnesota and across the nation, progressive and other pro-employee candidates won many of the elections at the Local, State, and even Federal levels. That outcome could mean more workplace fairness – whether through agency enforcement actions,…
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The legitimacy of the Supreme Court in question?
October 11th, 2018
The Republican-controlled Congress recently voted to confirm the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh by President Donald Trump to serve on the United States Supreme Court. Congress voted to confirm Judge Kavanaugh by one of the narrowest margins in t…
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It is always darkest before the dawn
September 3rd, 2018
On this Labor Day in 2018, it is especially important to consider where we are and where we could go as a country when it comes to fairness in the workplace and in the country generally. We are currently witnessing an escalating assault on employee r…
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Putting employer non-compete agreements in their place
August 6th, 2018
Much like the hastily drafted and adopted tax “reform” law championed by the Trump Administration, non-compete agreements generally reflect and worsen the disparity of leverage and resources between employers and employees. Simply put, employers…
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By the slimmest majority, the Supreme Court turns its back on working people and the public interest yet again
July 2nd, 2018
In another sharply divided opinion, the United States Supreme Court again disregarded decades of settled law to undercut workplace rights. In Janus v. AFSCME, 5 Justices of the Supreme Court declared that employees in the public sector no longer need…
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Supreme Court and Congress act in the same week to undercut the rule of law
June 1st, 2018
In Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, the United States Supreme Court recently declared that employees can be forced to give up their rights to participate in class actions or collective actions when they face wage theft, retaliation, discrimination, haras…
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Politicized Supreme Court, by a slim majority, again sides with corporations
May 1st, 2018
By a 5-4 margin, the United States Supreme Court opted to deviate from over 70 years of clearly established legal precedent to make it more difficult to hold employers accountable for wage theft. In that case, Encino Motocars, LLC v. Navarro, the 5-p…
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The fading red state myth
April 23rd, 2018
The conventional wisdom insists that the nation is sharply divided in two. One part of the country supposedly consists of “blue” States that allegedly promote workplace fairness through unions and otherwise. These States also purportedly value an…
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