If states won’t crack down on businesses breaking the law as a moral imperative, I suppose at least something can work: Federal and state officials, many facing record budget deficits, are starting to aggressively pursue companies that try to pass off regular employees as independent contractors And another good reason to have former […]
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Republicans Don’t Want Workers Rights Laws Enforced
Posted on 09 October 2009.
It isn’t surprising that Republicans really don’t want to enforce the law but this is quite revealing: The New York State labor commissioner, President Obama’s nominee to be the Labor Department’s top enforcement official, won approval from a Senate committee Wednesday but immediately encountered a roadblock when the committee’s senior Republican said he would […]
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Spitzer And Labor
Posted on 12 March 2008.
There isn’t going to be much oxygen left in the public space to remember what Eliot Spitzer has done for organized labor. I’m not going to argue he was perfect in this area–which politician is? But, here are three things to remember: 1. I think he was 100 percent right to propose granting drivers […]
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Spitzer And Labor
Posted on 12 March 2008.
There isn’t going to be much oxygen left in the public space to remember what Eliot Spitzer has done for organized labor. I’m not going to argue he was perfect in this area–which politician is? But, here are three things to remember: 1. I think he was 100 percent right to propose granting drivers […]
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The Unregulated Economy
Posted on 13 February 2008.
You may recall that we sponsored a forum last Fall to look at the growth of the unregulated economy. At the forum, the New York State Commissioner of Labor, Patricia Smith talked about her department’s efforts to enforce basic wage and hour laws. Well, Smith–one of Eliot Spitzer’s really great appointments–has not just been […]
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The Unregulated Economy
Posted on 13 February 2008.
You may recall that we sponsored a forum last Fall to look at the growth of the unregulated economy. At the forum, the New York State Commissioner of Labor, Patricia Smith talked about her department’s efforts to enforce basic wage and hour laws. Well, Smith–one of Eliot Spitzer’s really great appointments–has not just been […]
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