- McDonald’s worker complains she’s not paid $15/hour, but there’s a logical problem with that [David Henderson]
- EEOC Phoenix office signs pact with Mexican consulates to curb discrimination against illegals [EEOC press release]
- “Former Lawmaker (and Ex-Felon) Urges Connecticut To Ban Discrimination Against Felons in 2013” [Daniel Schwartz]
- Connecticut: “NLRB sues to reinstate union saboteurs at nursing homes” [Gehrke, DC Examiner, Schwartz, Jillian Kay Melchior/NRO, earlier on pols that enable the strikers] More: Ivan Osorio.
- OSHA after clerk robbery: “handling money, working alone and standing behind open counters” expose employer to violations [OSHA press release]
- “N.D. Ill.: Under ADAAA, Asthma Triggered by Strong Perfume Might Be Disability” [Bagenstos]
- “Worker centers” allow organizers to dodge the legal responsibilities owed to workers by actual labor unions [Stefan Marculewicz and Jennifer Thomas, Fed Soc]
Posts Tagged ‘minimum wage’
“Employers grow reluctant to offer internships following complaints”
Gee, thanks, lawsuit-filers: “Internships can be the key to the start of a successful career, but the positions are getting harder to find because a lot of employers are now nervous to offer them.” [KHOU] A New York attorney has filed a much-publicized series of suits seeking class action status to represent unpaid interns at organizations including Harper’s Bazaar magazine and the Charlie Rose show. [Atlantic Wire]
Relatedly or otherwise, a federal judge has dismissed the class action filed by social activist Jonathan Tasini alleging that the Huffington Post was violating the rights of its unpaid bloggers by basing a profitable media platform on their work. [Reuters, AP]
Corn detasseling and the minimum wage
Deputy Headmistress has some thoughts.
Microblog 2008-12-23
A few odds and ends:
- The University of North Carolina system is debating whether students’ rights to free speech, in a public forum explicitly reserved for free speech, include “hate speech”. To my shame as a UNC alum, I link to a Duke professor who gets it right;
- Ted Frank is a modest man. He hasn’t pointed you to this (non-pdf, easy to read) article on his role as an objector to the sham Grand Theft Auto class action settlement (the article was linked here some time ago, but it was in inconvenient format – readers interested in games, class actions, or lawyerly self-dealing should review it);
- Will Barack Obama seek to relax or repeal federal marijuana laws? Esquire thinks so. I think he lacks the guts. We’ll see who’s right. (Via Crime and Federalism);
- Bathroom sex, cops, wrestling, and catfighting lawyers! Note that not all lawyers who brawl are sexy;
- 20% of Americans think Dick Cheney is the worst Vice President in history. Ergo, at least 20% of Americans have never heard of dueling assassin Aaron Burr;
- Upstate New York Judge orders “living wage” of $13.11 per hour (!) for parking attendants. Unintended consequences ensue;
- Stray thought: if you haven’t seen When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions, you should. It was the best documentary I watched this year.
While I’ll be blogging tomorrow, I suspect that many of you won’t be reading. Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Ecstatic Eid, Joyous Kwanzaa, a very late Merry Diwali for Hindu readers, and for the secular among us, Happy Holidays.