April 29, 2024
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Laurie Berke-Weiss Participates in NYU Law School Student's Presentation, "Clawback Across the Country"

Laurie Berke-Weiss recently was a commentator for a presentation by Samuel Ball, a 2L at NYU Law School, about his paper, “Clawback Across the Country”, a nationwide survey of “[c]ommon-law compensation forfeiture, which allows employers and others who have hired agents to recoup compensation paid to employees (or agents during a period where they have breached their duty of loyalty.…”. Sam’s paper includes an analysis of the “faithless servant doctrine” which is applied in New York to all employees.  The presentation can be viewed using this link, along with a draft of the paper.

Profile of Silvia Federici Highlights What She’s Been Saying for Decades, Capitalism Exploits Women. The Pandemic Just Made it Impossible to Ignore.

March 2, 2021
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As the pandemic has thrown millions into unemployment, has affected women disproportionately, and laid bare just how much working people rely on myriad forms domestic care, others are, as this wide-ranging profile in the New York Times magazine suggests, rediscovering the socialist feminism of Federici and her contemporaries, such as Selma James, Angela Davis, and the Combahee River Collective.

Fed Chair Makes a Case for Affordable Childcare

February 25, 2021
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In a two-day testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, Fed Chair Jerome Powell let it be known that improved federal child care programs would have a positive impact on women remaining in the workforce.

As Vaccine Rollout Continues, So Do Legal Questions about Requiring Worker Vaccination

February 24, 2021
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As the vaccine rollout is speeding up, questions about employers’ legal rights to require the vaccine are becoming more frequent.
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