When the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, employers hired fewer disabled workers, because they feared lawsuits. We may now be seeing a similar trend in the face of more sexual harassment claims. Original Article: “After #MeToo, Men Begin Avoiding Female Co-Workers
In this episode, Bob tackles Tucker Carlson’s intuitive—yet wrong—claim that Jeff Bezos is unloading his labor costs onto the taxpayer. If anything, food stamps and other government assistance programs cause Amazon to pay its workers higher wages. For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com . The Bob Murphy Show is also available on iTunes ,
The special legal status of unions is what harms workers. Not the so-called “scabs.” Narrated by George Pickering. Original article: “Scabs” Are the True Labor Day Heroes .
The Canadian Hockey League (CHL), which consists of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the Western Hockey League (WHL), and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), is currently embroiled in a “$180-million class-action lawsuit. The suit on behalf of all current and many former players seeks outstanding wages, overtime pay, holiday pay and
One would get the impression, reading most of the discussions in today’s American newspapers and magazines, that no one had ever thought of doing anything for the poor until Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930’s, or even until President Johnson’s “war on poverty” in the 1960’s. Yet private charity is as old as mankind; and the history of
Listen to Ryan McMaken’s commentary on the Radio Rothbard podcast . Bloomberg reports this week that on Wall Street, men have started to implement office strategies that some managers and employees believe will minimize the likeliness of being accused of sexual harassment: While the new personal codes for dealing with #MeToo have only just begun
An audio version of this article is available here . As long as I can remember, unions have attacked as “scabs” those willing to accept work for wages and conditions those unions reject, even if it involves crossing union picket lines. In fact, that usage goes back centuries, from English slang for a mean, low, “scurvy” rascal or scoundrel. As
President Trump has proposed a one-year pay freeze for federal bureaucrats, which has reinvigorated the debate over whether compensation levels for the civil service are too lavish . The Washington Post opines this is nothing but “government bashing,” but this chart from my former colleague Chris Edwards should be more than enough
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