The United States Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to workers’ rights in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 584 U.S. __ (May 21, 2018) when it held that employers may require employees to waive their rights to class or collective action. Employees had hoped the Court would find that mandatory...

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government sought to issue an emergency temporary standard through its federal agency, OSHA, as a way to mandate employers with 100+ employees to create policy that will mandate those employees to become vaccinated or submit to weekly...

Auf unseren Beitrag Solidaritaet in der europaeischen betrieblichen Mitbestimmung als theoretische Herausforderung – ein kultursoziologischer Loesungsvorschlag in Heft 4 der Industriellen Beziehungen 2011 haben Stefanie Huertgen, Hermann Kotthoff und Guglielmo Meardi mit vielfaeltigen,...

Transnationale Unternehmenspolitiken und neue, insbesondere europaeische Gremien der betrieblichen Arbeitnehmervertretung erfordern, dass sich Arbeitnehmervertreter aus unterschiedlichen Systemen Industrieller Beziehungen miteinander verstaendigen. Um dies vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher...

Artificial intelligence has the potential to fundamentally reshape humanity’s relationship with labor. However, the development and deployment of workplace AI often lacks input from an essential group of experts: the people who directly interact with these systems in their jobs. This neglect...

Public policy strongly supports voluntarism as it fuels interests that are critically important to society and the health of this country, particularly in these days of ever-increasing budget cuts. It has also created many unique legal dilemmas. Unfortunately, however, the volunteer experience...

A newspaper company creates a workplace communications systems policy that prohibits use of its e-mail for non-job-related or outside solicitations and then disciplines an employee who sends several union-related e-mails to employees. The employer permits other personal uses of its e-mail...