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Labor and Employment Law
ILR Event Focused on Developing Junior Work Law Scholars
As a hub for leading research and scholarship on labor and employment law, the ILR School hosted the Cornell Work Law Junior Scholar Workshop Nov. 7-9 in King-Shaw Hall.
Beginning today, employers with four or more employees or with one or more domestic workers must include a salary range when advertising jobs to be performed in New York City.
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
The Guardian
Eli Friedman, associate professor in the ILR School, says, “Excessive overtime is kind of a built-in feature of the whole model of industrial development in China. Very long hours and compulsory overtime, while not legal, are also completely the norm.”
According to the latest BLS data, 4.2 million Americans are long-term unemployed, meaning they’ve been jobless for 27 weeks or more. Professor Francine Blau says that in addition to the personal hardships, long-term unemployment is bad for the economy as a whole.
