Jeff Hirsch
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@WorkLawProf
Labor & employment law professor at University of North Carolina. Co-Editor of Workplace Prof Blog.
"Work Law Under COVID-19" Seeking Contributions lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog…
5th Circuit rules Musk tweet about Tesla staff losing benefits if they unionized was “constitutionally protected speech,” & also vacates and remands ruling a fired activist should be offered reinstatement, saying NLRB failed to consider contradictory fact aboutblaw.com/bf5z
This hasn't gotten nearly enough attn: the #CA #BarExam will soon cover #EmploymentLaw! This makes sense b/c representing workers & employers is an impt thing #lawyers do. And I love that it makes some baseline knowledge of work law a core competency for our profession.
The first thing to understand is that not all workers are covered by US labor laws. You might assume that workers get paid a minimum wage (after all, it says "minimum"). In fact, many garment workers in the US toil under what's known as the piecework system.
Lionsgate has partnered with Runway. I wonder how the directors and actors of their films feel about having their work fed into the AI to make a proprietary model. As an artist on The Hunger Games? I'm pissed. This is the first step in trying to replace artists and filmmakers.
The 19th Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law (COSELL) is fast approaching! Download the program & the abstracts on our website: cosellaw.org/index.html! See you in SD (@USanDiegoLaw @CWSL_News) on Sept. 14! Thanks to the organizers @OrlyLobel & Susan Bisom-Rapp🙏
