Bloomberg Law: Requiring Climate Disclosure From Federal Contractors Is Legal
Industry groups and their allies claim that requiring large federal contractors to disclose their climate emissions is unlawful. Governing for Impact explains why we disagree in a piece for Bloomberg Law.
LPE Blog: Electronic Surveillance is Short-Circuiting Employment and Labor Law
Electronic surveillance and automated management should not be understood as merely imposing some new, discrete set of harms on workers. Rather, pervasive employee monitoring should be seen as fundamentally altering the employment context in a way that threatens a wide
Notice & Comment: An Alternative Justification for Debt Relief under the HEROES Act
When the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan comes before the Supreme Court next month, it could benefit from an unlikely ally: inflation.
LPE Blog: Saving Industrial Policy from Shareholder Primacy
Recent industrial policy has the potential to accelerate decarbonization and increase America’s productive capacities. However, unless we build limits on corporate value extraction into the regulations and agency practices that will guide the contracts made between the government and private
Employers should be held accountable for worker surveillance, employee status
Earlier this week, the Center for Law and Social Policy and Governing for Impact submitted a comment to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) explaining our support for its proposed rule on the independent contractor versus employee classification.
Worker surveillance enables joint employer control
With increasing frequency, companies contract out their workforce to third-parties — an attempt to evade liability under workers rights statutes, including the nation’s labor laws — yet deploy surveillance technologies to maintain a tight grip over how these, supposedly third-party, workers do their jobs.