Labor Law: State Jurisdiction over Acts Which Are Unfair Labor Practices under Federal Labor Legislation

Jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board

In the historic decisions in the Jones & Laughlin and companion cases sustaining the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act, the Supreme Court made no attempt to define or particularize the instances in which the invocation of the act by the Labor Board would constitute a valid exercise of the federal power. It contented itself with defining the limits of the Board's jurisdiction...

Labor Productivity and the Law of Decreasing Labor Content

This paper analyzes labor productivity and the law of decreasing labor content (LDLC) originally formulated by Farjoun and Machover (1983). First, it is shown that the standard measures of labor productivity may be rather misleading, owing to their emphasis on monetary aggregates. Instead, the conventional classical-Marxian labor values provide the theoretically and empirically sound measures o...

Labor Law and Its Reform

Selected Labor & Employment Law Updates

Court holds that warehouse employees who were not guaranteed fixed hours or schedules and could bid for regular jobs as they became available were not "casual employees" as defined by the collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and the employer thus was required to contribute to fund on their behalf Even if the employer treated the employees as casual employees, such practice could not contraven...

Labor Turnover in the U.s. Federal Bureaucracy

This paper presents an empirical analysis of labor turnover in the U.S. federal bureaucracy. The results indicate that job experience in politically important federal agencies is valued by the private sector. Hence (high-level) bureaucrats employed in these agencies have high turnover probabilities. The analysis also shows that equalization of federal sector and private sector wage rates would ...