The National Labor Relations Act of 1935,also known as the Wagner Act,is a foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions,engage in collective bargaining,and take collective action such as strikes. Central to the act was a ban on company unions. The act was written by Senator Robert F. Wagner,passed by the 74th United States Congress,and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Duncan Kennedy is an American legal scholar and held the Carter Professorship of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School until 2015. Now emeritus,he is best known as one of the founders of the critical legal studies movement.
In United States labor law,at-will employment is an employer's ability to dismiss an employee for any reason,and without warning,as long as the reason is not illegal. When an employee is acknowledged as being hired "at will",courts deny the employee any claim for loss resulting from the dismissal. The rule is justified by its proponents on the basis that an employee may be similarly entitled to leave their job without reason or warning. The practice is seen as unjust by those who view the employment relationship as characterized by inequality of bargaining power.
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected,unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. The FMLA was a major part of President Bill Clinton's first-term domestic agenda,and he signed it into law on February 5,1993. The FMLA is administered by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor.
A union security agreement is a contractual agreement,usually part of a union collective bargaining agreement,in which an employer and a trade or labor union agree on the extent to which the union may compel employees to join the union,and/or whether the employer will collect dues,fees,and assessments on behalf of the union.
An employment contract or contract of employment is a kind of contract used in labour law to attribute rights and responsibilities between parties to a bargain. The contract is between an "employee" and an "employer". It has arisen out of the old master-servant law,used before the 20th century. Employment contracts relies on the concept of authority,in which the employee agrees to accept the authority of the employer and in exchange,the employer agrees to pay the employee a stated wage.
Jack M. Balkin is an American legal scholar. He is the Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. Balkin is the founder and director of the Yale Information Society Project (ISP),a research center whose mission is "to study the implications of the Internet,telecommunications,and the new information technologies for law and society." He also directs the Knight Law and Media Program and the Abrams Institute for Free Expression at Yale Law School.
Cynthia Estlund is the Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.
C. Edwin Baker,the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,was a scholar of constitutional law,communications law,and free speech.
Harry Thomas Edwards is an American jurist. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1980 to 2005,taking senior status in 2005,and a professor of law at the New York University School of Law.
Seth D. Harris is an American attorney,academic,and former government official. Harris served under President Barack Obama as the 11th United States Deputy Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2014. Nominated in February 2009,Harris was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May 2009,and became acting Secretary of Labor for six months following the resignation of Hilda Solis in January 2013. Harris was also a member of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's Board of Directors. Harris stepped down from his post on January 16,2014.
Frances Raday is a professor emerita of Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law,Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Raday is currently a professor of law at the Haim Striks Law School at Colman College of Management Academic Studies,where she also acts as president of the Concord Center for Integration of International Law in Israel and as head of the school's graduate programs.
Kent Greenfield is an American lawyer,Professor of Law and Law Fund Research Scholar at Boston College,and frequent commentator to The Huffington Post. He is the author of The Myth of Choice:Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits and The Failure of Corporate Law:Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities,published by University of Chicago Press in 2006,and scholarly articles. He is best known for his "stakeholder" critique of the conventional legal doctrine and theory of corporate law,and for his leadership in a legal battle between law schools and the Pentagon over free speech and gay rights.
The Labor policy in the Philippines is specified mainly by the country's Labor Code of the Philippines and through other labor laws. They cover 38 million Filipinos who belong to the labor force and to some extent,as well as overseas workers. They aim to address Filipino workers’legal rights and their limitations with regard to the hiring process,working conditions,benefits,policymaking on labor within the company,activities,and relations with employees.
Burton A. Weisbrod is an American economist who pioneered the theory of option value,and the theory of why voluntary nonprofit organizations exist,He also developed the methodology for valuing voluntary labor. He advanced methods for benefit-cost analysis of public policy by recognizing the roles of externality effects and collective public goods in program evaluation. He applied those methods to the fields of education,health care,poverty,public interest law,and nonprofit organization. Over a career of fifty years,he published 16 books and over 200 scholarly articles. He is currently the Cardiss Collins Professor of Economics Emeritus and a Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
Volkmar Gessner was a German university professor and a socio-legal scholar.
Benjamin I. Sachs is Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry at Harvard Law School,a chair previously held by Harvard economist James L. Medoff (1947-2012). A member of the Advisory Committee of the Labour Law Research Network,he also serves as a faculty co-chair of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is co-founder of the blog OnLabor.
National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University,444 U.S. 672 (1980),is a US labor law case,concerning the scope of labor rights in the United States.
Anita Nancy Bernstein is an American tort law scholar,with expertise in feminist jurisprudence and legal ethics. She is the Anita and Stuart Subotnick Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.
Janus v. American Federation of State,County,and Municipal Employees,Council 31,No. 16-1466,585 U.S. ___ (2018),abbreviated Janus v. AFSCME,is a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on US labor law,concerning the power of labor unions to collect fees from non-union members. Under the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947,which applies to the private sector,union security agreements can be allowed by state law. The Supreme Court ruled that such union fees in the public sector violate the First Amendment right to free speech,overruling the 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education that had previously allowed such fees.
