Sean Higgins is a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute specializing in labor and employment issues. As journalist, he covered the intersection of politics and economics for two decades, having been senior writer for the Washington Examiner, Washington correspondent for Investor’s Business Daily and a contributor to publications like Reason and National Review Online.”
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News
NLRB Democrats Unveil New Rule Expanding Joint Employer Liability…Again
Democrats on the National Labor Relations Board have put forward a new rule expanding “joint employer” liability for businesses nationwide. CEI labor policy expert…
CEI Experts React to August Jobs Numbers
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 315,000 new jobs in the month of August, slightly below market expectations. The unemployment rate rose to…
U.S. Economy Adds 528k Jobs In July Amid Inflation and Shrinking GDP, but Congress isn’t Helping: CEI Analysis
The U.S. economy added 528,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
Blog
FTC To Use Algorithms in Bid to Hobble Gig Economy
- By: Sean Higgins
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will use its “full authority” to investigate “unfair, deceptive, and anticompetitive practices” by so-called gig…
Why Railway Unions Oppose the Deal Biden Helped Arrange
- By: Sean Higgins
The Chamber of Commerce today urged Congress to step in and impose a settlement should talks between the rail industry and the its…
NLRB Proposes Third Rewrite of Joint Employer Rule in Four Years
- By: Sean Higgins
As expected, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a new version of the “joint employer” rule, which establishes when a…
Op-Eds/Articles
National Review
Unions’ Cynical Minimum-Wage Gambit
- By: Sean Higgins
We want California to be the first in the nation as it is in so many fronts, and to be able to spread this to other…
The Hill
This Labor Day, let’s ensure that individual workers are empowered, too
- By: Sean Higgins
Ideas never die. If they become unpopular, people forget about them, but then they bounce back when a new generation rediscovers them. And whatever made…
Wall Street Journal
Amazon Takes On the National Labor Relations Board
- By: Sean Higgins
Amazon is pushing back against the recent union election at its Staten Island facility in a novel way: by taking on the National Labor Relations…
Studies
The Protect the Right to Organize Act Empowers Unions at Workers’ Expense
- By: Sean Higgins
View the Full Document as PDF The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act is touted by its supporters as advancing the rights…
Citations
The Washington Times
Critics of NLRB’s ‘joint employer’ rule predict job losses, more red tape for businesses
- By: Sean Higgins
The Washington Times cites Research Fellow Sean Higgins on the NLRB joint employer rule: The board’s apparent goal is to encourage collective bargaining, according…
The Hill
Authorizing congressional unions won’t end Democrats’ labor troubles
- By: Sean Higgins
The Hill cites CEI Research Fellow Sean Higgins discussing congressional unions: The framework for congressional staff to collectively bargain was actually created when the newly…
Freedom Works
AUDIO: Sean Higgins of CEI on job gains
- By: Sean Higgins
CEI Research Fellow Sean Higgins discusses job gains on Freedom Works Radio.