New Orleans I’m a fan of Robert Pollin, who we know best as the University of Massachusetts economist who authored the ground breaking studies on the negligible to non-existent job loss coming from marginal increases in living wages for workers. Pollin’s work was a critical, dispassionate argument against the “sky is falling” conservatives who argue that …
Month: April 2013
Part-time Employment Discrimination
Little Rock We represent lots of part-time workers and sometimes even fulltime work schedules feel part-timey with a 35-hour regular workweek or less. Where 30 years ago, there was a straightforward definition of part-time as 20-hours or less, over the last decade we have to constantly fight employers to prevent defining the workweek at less …
Fusion Attack is about People and Power not Corruption
Little Rock A scandal has broken out in New York State recently. A Democratic state legislator was caught trying to buy his way onto a minor party ballot line to run for Mayor in New York City. The fact the minor party in the big city is Republican is just a sidebar snicker to …