20TH ANNUAL RCS: The 2010 Retirement Confidence Survey—the 20th annual wave of this survey—finds that the record-low confidence levels measured during the past two years of economic decline appear to have bottomed out. The percentage of workers very confident about...

Nancy Leong (starting at William & Mary Law this Fall) has just posted on SSRN her forthcoming piece in the American University Law Review: Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination. Here is the abstract: Jurisprudential remedies for racial discrimination presume the...

Best of luck to all competing in New York Law School's 34th Annual Robert F. Wagner National Labor and Employment Law Moot Court Competition. The competition begins today. rb

Eric Tucker (York - Osgoode Hall) and Judy Fudge (Victoria) have just posted on SSRN their article (forthcoming Canadian Labour and Employment L.J.) The Freedom to Strike in Canada: A Brief Legal History. Here's the abstract: In the B.C. Health...

You may remember that the Eleventh Circuit issued a somewhat surprising decision recently on rehearing in a sexual harassment case, (noted here). That case involved a workplace saturated with graphic discussions of sex and derogatory language about women, although the...

Thanks to Randy Enochs for help with the title on this post and to Josh Pollack for bringing it to my attention. I think I will let the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel piece speak for itself: Johnny Kimble spent a career...

Our own Paul Secunda (Marquette) is at it again. After posting his most recent piece on the captive-audience speech issue, he's adding to his broad scholarship on public employees' free speech rights. The piece is "The Story of Pickering v....

The United States Supreme Court granted cert today in the public employee privacy case of NASA v. Nelson, No. 09-530 (petition for cert here). The case will consider whether NASA, a federal agency, violated the informational privacy rights of employees,...

On this week's agenda for the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee is a full committee hearing entitled, A Fair Share for All: Pay Equity in the New American Workplace. The hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning, at 10...

The employer's reply brief in New Process Steel has now been filed and you can click on the following link to Download New Process Reply Brief. You can get the opening brief here, and the NLRB's brief here. -JH

The Department of Labor released its February unemployment figures yesterday, and the rate remained unchanged from the previous month at 9.7%. There were still 36,000 job losses in February, but that was a big improvement from the previous year's 650,000...

Ariana Levinson (Louisville) sends us a hold-the-date note for the annual Warns Institute. The 27th Annual Warns Labor & Employment Law Institute will be held on June 24 and June 25 at the Galt House in Louisville, KY. William Gould...

Dennis Nolan sends along news that both houses of the North Dakota Legislature have approved a ballot initiative that, if approved by voters in November of this year, would require secret-ballot voting in union elections. The bill ostensibly would preempt...

Charlotte Garden (Georgetown) has just posted on SSRN her article Labor Values are First Amendment Values: Why Union Comprehensive Campaigns are Protected Speech. Charlotte presented this article at the Seton Hall Labor and Employment Scholars Forum in January. Here's the...

The LERA Listserv, through the Cornell Institute of Workplace Studies (IWS) brings to my attention a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) on: Women in labour markets: Measuring progress and identifying challenges [5 March 2010].According to the IWS:...

Paul Secunda (Marquette) has just posted on SSRN his article The Contemporary "Fist Inside the Velvet Glove": Employer Captive Audience Meetings Under the NLRA. The article is for the Florida International University Law Review symposium Whither the Board? The National...

Michael Maslanka, over at Work Matters, explains that workplace cultures of the future will focus on autonomy and not rules. My modest suggestion for improving employee handbooks: Explain why a rule or policy is in the handbook and incorporate company...

Al Goldman passes along this news from the Washington Post that the Obama Administration is planning to eliminate the International Labor Comparisons program which, according to the article, may be the most reliable source for international comparative data respecting such...

Today, at the AFL-CIO annual meeting, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis hinted at an impending recess appointment of Craig Becker to the NLRB. It had been looking like that might not happen, but unless Solis was trying to tick off...

Last week, I asked readers to list their favorite labor/employment blogs. Here, in alphabetical order, they are. Feel free to add additional favorites to the comment section. Happy reading! rb . Adjunct Law Prof Blog, Charlies Train Law blog Connecticut...