More news! and Prof. Bodie!
Posted in Posts on Oct 12th, 2017
Professor Bodie was quoted in this interesting New York Times analysis of the NFL players’ rights to take a knee.
Monthly Archive for October, 2017
Discrimination and voice in the news
Posted in Podcast Summaries on Oct 11th, 2017
As promised, here is the audio podcast for the last unit we have focused on: employment discrimination. And, bonus links about the NFL and standing for the national anthem: Labor union files ULP against anthem threat NFL rule change about standing for the anthem? And another one about defamation in St. Louis (between businesses, […]
Civil Rights Cases in Missouri
Posted in Posts on Oct 10th, 2017
I keep talking about how many important civil rights cases have come from Missouri and from St. Louis in particular. BAMSL is holding a CLE to talk about four of them at the Missouri History Museum Click here to register if you are interested.
Dignity & Voice
Posted in Podcast Summaries on Oct 10th, 2017
I’ve rerecorded the employee privacy podcast and the employee voice podcast.
Buckets of links
Posted in Posts on Oct 9th, 2017
I owe my worklaw students apologies for being so delayed on podcasts. Scripts for everything we’ve covered since the last quiz except for discrimination are on TWEN, and the discrimination one will be available Wednesday. I still have to record the two new ones, but hope to have those available tomorrow. In the meantime, there […]
DACA Explainer
Posted in Posts on Oct 6th, 2017
Although we aren’t going to really have much time to talk about the intersection of immigration law and employment law (it’s a big and specialized area), you might be wondering how the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will work and what the consequences might be. There is a great explainer […]
Epic Systems v. Lewis (and consolidated cases)
Posted in Posts on Oct 2nd, 2017
The oral argument transcript from the Supreme Court case I mentioned today about class action waivers as a condition of employment just went live. I haven’t read it yet, but I’ll likely have thoughts. And there are some experts among your classmates on this issue too! The National Law Journal, at least, suggests that the […]
