As Immigration Prof Blog has noted, the talents of immigrants in the US have been recognized the world over, including in the Macarthur Genius Fellowship (Natalia Molina in 2019, Margaret Stock in 2013) and the Pulitzer Prize (Jose Antonio Vargas, Viet Thanh Nguyen). The trend continues with the announcement of this year's Nobel...
Timely Redux: Walking The Tightrope: Dealing With Employees’ Different Viewpoints On COVID-19, Racial Justice, and Partisan Politics
Daniel Pasternak of Squire Patton Boggs has reposted his June 2020, post to Employment Law Worldview addressing the complicated situation employers are in when employees express – sometime respectfully, sometimes not – different, and indeed, opposite views on COVID-19 issues (e.g., legitimate public health emergency versus hoax or “plandemic”), racial justice (“Black Lives...
The First Wave of Covid-19 Workplace Lawsuits is Here
From an earlier post in the Advisory.com Daily Briefing:
Major employers nationwide are facing a wave of lawsuits filed by workers claiming they contracted the novel coronavirus as a result of their employer's negligence—a trend that's sparking debate over whether Congress should grant businesses liability protections during the epidemic.
“It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal”
From Glamour: I began to joke that it had taken a divorce to make my marriage equal. But like all good jokes, it’s only funny because it’s true.
In America, in heterosexual relationships, women do three times as much work as their male counterparts. It’s true that modern men are...