First, it’s difficult for an individual employee to use the NLRA as a shield because its purpose was related to unionization. Even if workers collectively take action, and win, the remedies offered by the law aren’t great. And because it’s aimed at protecting groups of [...]

The Reference Shelf A Bloomberg Businessweek op-ed makes the case that paid family leave is good for business. An Albany Business Review article examines the arguments made against it. An Atlantic  article on the paid family leave arms race in Silicon Valley. A survey by [...]

Forty-five percent of those surveyed said they work while sick because they can’t afford to lose the money -- a phenomenon Ziebarth and his co-author call “contagious presenteeism.” Sick people come to work and infect their co-workers, spreading disease. Sick parents without paid leave are also [...]

The pay gap was actually shrinking in the second quarter of 2014, but "that was largely because male earnings were weak — declining in five quarters between 2010 and 2014 — and women mostly saw modest gains." The Institute for Women's Policy Research reports that women are "equal, if not [...]

3. EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN California passed an unusually strict equal-pay act last month, requiring that women and men within the same company be paid the same for doing "substantially similar" work, even if they have different titles, or work in different offices. The news [...]