ELECTION SEASON STUFF- VIEW FROM FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE
Schedule F has gone into effect. During the blessedly limited time of his Administration, Trump has feared and repeatedly attacked the federal... Read More
IMPEACH AG BARR NOW – WITHOUT THE RULE OF LAW THERE ARE NO LAWYERS
Really, it is so clear what we need to do. Below is a quick checklist of AG Barr’s impeachable offenses: Deliberate distortion... Read More
September 2020 “Check-in” on Labor & Employment Developments: CSB, OSHA, Payroll Tax Deferral Via Executive Order, AI in Employee Selection
While the Trump Administration has not missed a beat in appointing federal judges, it has ignored (or worse) filling vacancies in administrative... Read More
Covid Conundrums, Fickleness of Agency Deference, Resisting Labor in a Pandemic, and Days of Armendariz-Are They Over?
From the Covid Desk: The United Mine Workers of American International Union and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy,... Read More
Portland & Lubyanka?
As a Russian history and literature major, in 1972 I wrote my college thesis on works by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. One of these... Read More
Pandemic Blog Hitching Post for Law, Labor & Covid News:
SCOTUS Voter Suppression Decisions: Previously noted in this blog was the April 6, 2020 SCOTUS decision requiring Wisconsin voters to jeopardize their/their... Read More
Casual Friday Report: Employment Mandatory Arbitration & Employee Marijuana Use
Myriad of mandatory pre-dispute employment arbitration happenings across the nation… Here in California the state courts continue to hue to the provisions... Read More
Doomsday Report for March 28, 2019: SCOTUS hearing in Kisor: Conservative Courts Poised to Occupy the Regulatory Field.
On March 27, 2019 SCOTUS held oral argument in the case of Kisor v. Wilke, involving a benefits determination by the Department... Read More
Doomsday Report: More Bad News & Bad Actors
Doomsday Report: More Bad News & Bad Actors Still feels awkward to post a blog, kind of like a descriptive doomsday clock... Read More