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The Meaningless Symbolism of Raising the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors

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The Meaningless Symbolism of Raising the Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/27/2021

The Biden administration is planning to increase the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 an hour, but there is much less to this than…

Labor and Employment

With PRO Act, Congress Readies National Version of California’s AB5 Fiasco

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With PRO Act, Congress Readies National Version of California’s AB5 Fiasco

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/22/2021

California’s AB5 law, which was meant to prevent worker misclassification, faced a popular backlash when it disrupted the livelihoods of freelancers and gig…

Labor and Employment

Does DOL Nominee David Weil Believe in Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

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Does DOL Nominee David Weil Believe in Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/15/2021

David Weil, a Brandeis University professor and President Biden’s nominee to head the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division seems to believes that protecting…

Deregulation

Biden Is Right to Call for Rolling Back Occupational Licensing and Non-Compete Agreements

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Biden Is Right to Call for Rolling Back Occupational Licensing and Non-Compete Agreements

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/09/2021

President Biden’s executive order today calling for occupational licensing and employment non-compete agreements to be rolled back is a good idea that could benefit…

Labor and Employment

How the Unemployment Rate Rose While the Economy Added Jobs

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How the Unemployment Rate Rose While the Economy Added Jobs

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 07/02/2021

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) seemingly contradictory report Friday that the nation’s unemployment rate had risen marginally to 5.9 percent, up 1/10th of a…

Labor and Employment

Missouri Employers Must Jazz Up wages to Avoid St. Louis Blues

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Missouri Employers Must Jazz Up wages to Avoid St. Louis Blues

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/29/2021

Employers are struggling to fill jobs in Missouri and that’s a good thing. It means wages and benefits in the state will rise and workers…

Deregulation

Justices Affirm that Collective Bargaining Rights Shouldn’t Trump other Rights

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Justices Affirm that Collective Bargaining Rights Shouldn’t Trump other Rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/23/2021

The Supreme Court was correct in its 6-3 ruling today in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid that a California regulation granting union organizers access…

Labor and Employment

The Way to Maximize Worker Freedom: Combine Right to Work and Micro-Unions

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The Way to Maximize Worker Freedom: Combine Right to Work and Micro-Unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/21/2021

The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a pro-union bill currently awaiting action in the Senate, includes a lot ideas to coerce individual…

Labor and Employment

The PRO Act Would Erode Individual Workers’ Rights

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The PRO Act Would Erode Individual Workers’ Rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/16/2021

Suppose a piece of legislation was presented as an expansion of rights, when in fact it narrowed those rights. That ought to stir up some…

Labor and Employment

This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

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This Week in Ridiculous Regulations

  • By: Ryan Young, Sean Higgins
  • 06/14/2021

The economic recovery continues, but Congress is still intent on passing unneeded stimulus and infrastructure spending. Inflation is also up, and five antitrust bills are…

Regulatory Reform

The Paycheck Fairness Act’s Solution to the Gender Pay Gap: Make It Impossible to Defend Against Claims of Discrimination

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The Paycheck Fairness Act’s Solution to the Gender Pay Gap: Make It Impossible to Defend Against Claims of Discrimination

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/10/2021

Congress hit a wall this week on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which narrowly failed 49-50 on a Senate vote on Tuesday to break…

Deregulation

New Job Numbers Show a Positive Trend

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New Job Numbers Show a Positive Trend

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 06/04/2021

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) new jobs report is the latest proof that rolling back the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 outbreak remains the…

Deregulation

Railway Unions Want Minimum Crew Numbers

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Railway Unions Want Minimum Crew Numbers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/26/2021

Cars are learning to drive themselves on U.S. highways. Unmanned aerial drones are fueling the expansion of e-commerce. Railways have been trying to…

Deregulation

California App Drivers Seem Happy that Proposition 22 Passed

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California App Drivers Seem Happy that Proposition 22 Passed

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/14/2021

Ever since Proposition 22’s lopsided November victory in California, critics of that ballot initiative have pushed the narrative that voters were confused by it…

Deregulation

Latest Jobs Report Shows – Again – that Economy Can Heal Itself

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Latest Jobs Report Shows – Again – that Economy Can Heal Itself

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/07/2021

The Department of Labor’s (DOL) latest job numbers are being treated as gloomy news because overall unemployment marginally increased to 6.1 percent…

Labor and Employment

Biden Administration Says Lets Keep the Rules for Contract Work Vague and Confusing

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Biden Administration Says Lets Keep the Rules for Contract Work Vague and Confusing

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 05/05/2021

In a move that surprised no one, the Biden administration announced today it was officially rolling back the Trump administration’s rule under the…

Labor and Employment

Is Biden Planning New Payroll Taxes?

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Is Biden Planning New Payroll Taxes?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/28/2021

President Biden will reportedly use address to Congress tonight to tout his American Families Plan, a major part of which is paid family leave.

Labor and Employment

The One Place Progressives Want the Vote Suppressed: Union Elections

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The One Place Progressives Want the Vote Suppressed: Union Elections

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/19/2021

Big business has a new weapon to use against organized labor: mailboxes. That is what the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU) claims is…

Labor and Employment

DOL On Independent Contractor Rule: We Were Wrong but We Cannot Explain Why

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DOL On Independent Contractor Rule: We Were Wrong but We Cannot Explain Why

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/14/2021

The Biden administration put the Department of Labor (DOL) in the awkward position of having to withdraw its new rule regarding when workers…

Labor and Employment

Maybe Workers Just Aren’t That into You, Unions

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Maybe Workers Just Aren’t That into You, Unions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 04/13/2021

Labor unions are second only to Donald Trump when it comes to crying foul over election outcomes they don’t like. The National Labor Relations Board…

Labor and Employment

Are Janus Violations a RICO Matter?

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Are Janus Violations a RICO Matter?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/31/2021

Ever since the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME that public sector workers cannot be forced to financially support unions, labor groups…

Labor and Employment

The PRO Act’s Extremely Broad “Whistleblower” Provisions

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The PRO Act’s Extremely Broad “Whistleblower” Provisions

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/23/2021

The Senate confirmed former Boston Mayor and ex-union official Marty Walsh as the new Labor Secretary Tuesday by a vote of 93-2.

Labor and Employment

Yes, Let’s Debate Taking Rights Away from Workers

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Yes, Let’s Debate Taking Rights Away from Workers

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/16/2021

Legislation doesn’t get much simpler than the National Right To Work Act. Introduced by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson…

Labor and Employment

Biden Administration Wants to Decide When Freelancers Are “Legitimate”

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Biden Administration Wants to Decide When Freelancers Are “Legitimate”

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/15/2021

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced Thursday, March 11 that it was rescinding a rule issued by the previous administration on when workers…

Labor and Employment

House Passes Legislation to Limit Individual Worker Rights

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House Passes Legislation to Limit Individual Worker Rights

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/10/2021

The House of Representatives passed legislation late Tuesday to significantly limit individual workers’ rights. That is, granted, not how the Protecting the Right…

Labor and Employment

Teacher Union Resistance to School Openings Keeping Moms out of Workforce

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Teacher Union Resistance to School Openings Keeping Moms out of Workforce

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/09/2021

The closure of schools and the resistance by teachers’ unions to reopening them is having the spillover effect of forcing more women out of the…

Labor and Employment

Congress Should Read the Fine Print on Sami’s Law

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Congress Should Read the Fine Print on Sami’s Law

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 03/05/2021

Whether a person is an employee of an app-based ridesharing company like Uber or Lyft under U.S. law has been a major hot button issue.

Deregulation

Alternate Minimum Wage Proposal Suggests Punishing Business Is the Real Goal

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Alternate Minimum Wage Proposal Suggests Punishing Business Is the Real Goal

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/26/2021

Fans of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour have come up with a workaround for the Senate Parliamentarian’s ruling Thursday that that…

Labor and Employment

Are Democrats All or Nothing for a $15 Minimum Wage?

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Are Democrats All or Nothing for a $15 Minimum Wage?

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/25/2021

Can congressional Republicans bid down the Democrats’ and Biden administration’s push for a $15 an hour minimum wage? That’s what Republicans lead by Sens.

Labor and Employment

California’s Khanna Says Businesses that Cannot Pay $15 Wages Are Dying Anyway

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California’s Khanna Says Businesses that Cannot Pay $15 Wages Are Dying Anyway

  • By: Sean Higgins
  • 02/22/2021

California Congressman Ro Khanna has a message for businesses that say they cannot afford to pay a $15 minimum wage an hour for their workers:…

Labor and Employment

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