This Week’s Top Hits

“We are underestimating the effects of firms engaging in stakeholder violations,” said ILR Professor Forrest Briscoe, about the effect on employee job turnover when a company is fined for corporate misconduct.

Lara Skinner, executive director of the Climate Jobs Institute, describes the institute’s recent “Climate Jobs New Jersey: Moving Towards a Resilient Future” report and comments on the institute’s positive working relationship with the Climate Jobs New Jersey coalition of unions.

This article profiles Nicki Dell, director of Technological Innovation for the Initiative on Home Care Work at ILR’s CAROW. Also a Cornell Tech associate professor, Dell founded the Clinic to End Tech Abuse and is a leader in research on technology-facilitated abuse of trafficking and domestic violence survivors.

Sarosh Kuruvilla, academic director of the Global Labor Institute, provides an analysis of the Dindigul labor agreement and comments on why Natchi Apparels may be having difficulty finding new clients.

ILR Associate Professor Emily Zitek provides background on her recent research into effective performance reviews and offers tips for employers about narrative-based performance reviews and numerical employee rankings.

Harry Katz, director of the Scheinman Institute, comments on the legitimacy of including international political issues in labor contract negotiations.