Earnings Disparities and Workers’ Compensation Issues Connected to Race and Ethnicity
On the Workers’ Compensation Quid Pro Quo and the Racial Wage Gap
Some obvious things take their time to hit me in just the right way that I take notice. I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about what I perceive as the inherent unfairness for all workers embedded in…
On the Workers’ Compensation Quid Pro Quo and the Racial Wage Gap — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Employee Status: Not a New Problem — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Fresh off a presentation on the Gig economy at an ABA function, and in preparation for a lecture I will be delivering to my students this week, I am inspired to reproduce the language of a decades-old U.S. Supreme Court…
Employee Status: Not a New Problem — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Fifty More Years of Ineffable Quo?: Workers’ Compensation and the Right to Personal Security — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Here is an abstract of my most recent academic article on workers’ compensation: During the days of Covid-19, OSHA has been much in the news as contests surface over the boundaries of what risks of workplace harm are properly regulable…
Fifty More Years of Ineffable Quo?: Workers’ Compensation and the Right to Personal Security — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
NFIB v. Department of Labor, OSHA in a Few Sentences — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
In my first reading of the opinion this morning, I conclude that all the Supreme Court said in the big National Federation of Business vs. OSHA case is that OSHA does not have the stautory authority to regulate what workers’…
NFIB v. Department of Labor, OSHA in a Few Sentences — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Teaching Workers’ Compensation and Scheduled Partial Benefits — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
As we enter 2022, the 50th Anniversary of the National Commission’s 1972 Report on the structural inadequacy of workers’ compensation, I’ve had the real privilege of teaching workers’ compensation at three separate law schools in the last six months (Saint…
Teaching Workers’ Compensation and Scheduled Partial Benefits — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
“Worker Protection Bill,” The National Labor Relations Act, and Worker Safety — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Although not directly related to workers’ compensation, in the aftermath of tornado-related worker deaths in Illinois and Kentucky there have been a number of news stories discussing the need for a worker protection law of some kind. But as I…
“Worker Protection Bill,” The National Labor Relations Act, and Worker Safety — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Of Tornado Alleys and Workers’ Compensation — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
When I wrote the short piece, “Will Workers’ Compensation Work in a Mega-Risk World,” I did not have exactly in mind the overnight death of workers’ at an Amazon facility resulting from freakish (or maybe not so freakish) tornados in…
Of Tornado Alleys and Workers’ Compensation — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Greetings from Saint Louis and “What Covid Laid Bare” — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
I’m writing this post in scorching Saint Louis, where I am a visiting professor at Saint Louis University School of Law for the fall semester teaching workers’ compensation and torts. It is always interesting to gain exposure to another state’s…
Greetings from Saint Louis and “What Covid Laid Bare” — Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
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