Law and Society Association (LASA) Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado, USA https://www.lsadenver2020.org/

May 28–31, 2020

Judge Won’t Force Uber to Treat California Drivers as Employees

A federal judge on Monday refused to make Uber reclassify drivers as employees in California, despite claims the alleged misclassification deprives the state of tax dollars and increases its spending …

Respecting the Right to Strike at Harvard

According to the Crimson, Harvard has circulated an email advising departments seeking to hire spring teaching fellows (and other student workers) to include certain language in job postings and offer letters. …

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Doe v Apple Inc., et al

On December 16, 2019. a lawsuit was filed in federal court in Washington DC against Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla by Congolese families who say their children were killed …

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Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths

A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to …

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McDonald’s USA, LLC, a joint employer, et al.

The NLRB on instructed an administrative law judge to approve a $172,000 settlement with McDonald’s that relieves it of liability as a “joint employer”. The dissenting member expressed that “This …

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McDonald’s Wins Backing of Labor Board

The National Labor Relations Board instructed a federal judge to approve a settlement in a case pertaining to McDonald’s Corp. status as a joint employer, helping shield the company from liability from …

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When Anti-Immigrant Mania Endangers Public Safety

What happens when loathing for immigrants reflexively trumps all other concerns? We learned one answer to this question late last month, when a crucial witness to the Hard Rock Hotel …

Major global hotel brands accused of profiting from sex trafficking

Hotel brands owned by Hilton, Intercontinental and Best Western are among a number of leading global chains accused of profiting from sex trafficking. In a landmark case that lawyers claim …

She was Instacart’s biggest cheerleader. Now she’s leading a worker revolt.

When Vanessa Bain quit her job working with special needs students at a public high school in Silicon Valley to become a shopper for online grocery delivery company Instacart, she …

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