1.1 Labor Power Effects of Large Employers The Presence of Unions and Trade
1.2 Nonwage Job Attributes Cost To Firms and Workers
2.1 Matching in Markets with Information Frictions
2.2 COVID 19 Crisis in the Labor Market
3.1 The Old Gig Economy The Extent of Payroll Fraud in Construction
3.2 Teacher Strike Wave and the Effects of Work Stoppages
4.1 Labor Market Effects of Occupational Licensing
4.2 When Work Hours and Too Short Too Long or Too Unstable
5.1 Connections to Employment
5.2 Discrimination Mechanization and Precarity
6.1 Caregiving Work and Social Programs
6.2 Job Quality and Job Loss
7.1 Minimum Wages Self Employment and Job Vacancies
7.2 Why and How Do Labor Markets Differ
8.1 Gender Gaps in Careers
8.2 Workers Belief About Attributes of Prospective Jobs
9.1 Employer Responses to Minimum Wage Policy
9.2 Inequality Race and Ethnicity
LERA FALL 2020 WEBINAR SERIES ADDRESSING "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN 2020"
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA) is hosting a series of webinars on "Labor and Employment Relations in 2020".
The one-hour facilitated sessions, hosted by a mix of LERA Industry Councils, Interest Sections, and Local Chapters, will begin with brief comments by leading experts (5 minutes each), followed by open forum dialogue. The overarching aim is to deepen understanding and appreciation for the breadth of labor and employment relations matters in context of national and international events in 2020.
LERA Webinar Organizing Group
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Brandeis University, LERA Industry Council/Interest Section Coordinating Committee Chair Wilma Liebman, Former Chair of the NLRB and LERA President-Elect William Canak, LERA National Chapter Advisory Council Chair, and MTSU (ret.)
Registration
You will need to register for various webinars individually. At the registration site, you will be asked to input your name, email, affiliation (university/organization/company), and optionally your job title and other information. You will then receive a confirmation email that will include a unique link and additional information to join the meeting.
Meeting Etiquette and Security
All attendees will be muted and video blocked upon arrival until the host grants them permission.
Two methods for asking questions will be available through Zoom during the Q&A:
Q&A tool (chat feature)
Hand-raising feature to be called on/and un-muted. Please allow the host a moment to un-mute before you begin your question.
Please note that attendees who join by phone will only be able to listen to the webinar.
*** Please do not distribute the link and information you will receive to attend the webinar to anyone, or post it in a public place. This discourages unknown individuals from joining the meeting with an intention to be disruptive. ***
Upcoming Webinars
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm Eastern Time (New York Time)
“The USMCA (the New NAFTA): Moving to Effective Enforcement of Labor Rights”
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, replacing NAFTA, came into effect on July 1. There are important changes to the Labor Chapter and the introduction of a rapid response mechanism in the Dispute Resolution chapter. This novel mechanism provides a new labor rights enforcement approach and it is the first of its kind in a U.S. free trade agreement. The panelists will cover topics including the complaints mechanisms, burden of proof, the ILO fundamental rights and core conventions link, and the impact on national labor laws.
Speakers:
Janice Bellace, Professor, Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania, and President of U.S. ISLSSL
James Brudney, Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham University, School of Law
Lance Compa, Senior Lecturer (ret.), Cornell University, ILR School
Desirée LeClercq, Assistant Professor, Cornell University, ILR School
Moderator: Rick Bales, Professor of Law, Ohio Northern University, and Chair of the U.S. ISLSSL
Pricing: There is no charge for this webinar thanks to sponsorship from the U.S. branch of the ISLSSL, but we ask that you register for it. We request that registered participants not share, forward, or post the webinar links and passwords to ensure the security of this webinar session. The Zoom link for the webinar will be sent to registered persons upon registration and also on the morning of the webinar.
Click here to access the recording and related files (available to registered attendees only).
Resource Page for the LERA Fall 2020 Webinar Series "LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS IN 2020"
This resource page is secure to those who have registered for one or more webinars in this series.
Thursday, September 17, 2020, 12:30 - 1:30 pm Eastern Time (New York Time) “The USMCA (the New NAFTA): Moving to Effective Enforcement of Labor Rights”
The Benefits of Joint and Several Liability Laws for Contractors, Communities, and States
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 1 – 1:45 pm Eastern Time (New York Time) Online via Zoom - link shared at registration
Sponsored by the LERA Construction Council
This webinar will examine the growing movement to hold developers and general contractors accountable for wage theft committed by subcontractors and labor brokers further down the subcontract chain. Attendees will learn how joint and several liability (JSL) laws work, why thirteen states and DC have adopted them since 2015, and how they have been put into action to recover wages for workers. It will also address industry claims that JSL laws hurt competition, contractor diversity, and housing development, drawing on twenty-five years of construction data that shows none of these effects.
Moderator
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Tim Watkins, Co-Chair Construction Council, Director, Fair Contracting Foundation of Minnesota
Speaker
Jack Kearns, MPP; Researcher for Western States Regional Council of Carpenters Campaign for a Residential Construction Minimum Wage in Los Angeles
Jack is a policy researcher with the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters, working primarily on the campaign to pass a residential construction minimum wage in the City of Los Angeles. He is a former Policy Advocate with the UCLA Labor Center, researching the rise in child labor in the United States. While earning his Master in Public Policy degree at UCLA, he researched how organized labor can fight the housing crisis in LA, and was a department steward for the graduate student workers union.
Questions about this webinar? Contact Tim Watkins, [email protected], 815-997-3039 Questions about registration? Contact the LERA office at [email protected].
Pricing
There is no charge, but we do ask that you register. We request that registered participants not share, forward, or post the webinar links and passwords to ensure the security of this webinar. The Zoom link for the webinar will be sent to registered persons upon registration and also on the morning of the webinar.
Recordings will be made available to LERA members.
Registration
At the registration site, you will be asked to input your name, email, affiliation (university/organization/company). You will then receive a confirmation email that will include a unique link and additional information to join the meeting.
Please do not distribute the link and information you will receive to attend the webinar to anyone, or post it in a public place. This discourages unknown individuals from joining the meeting with an intention to be disruptive.
Thursday, June 20,2025 Sponsored by LERA WHRO Council
HR in the age of Artificial Intelligence: Efficiency or Exploitation?
Monday, May 16, 2022 Sponsored by LERA Councils
A Glance Back and a Look Ahead: Inflection Points in Labor-Management Relations and Worker Activism
Tuesday, July 22, 2021 Sponsored by LERA Councils
The War Labor Board and Its Legacy: A Conversation with Historian Ronald Schatz
Professor and LERA Past President Tom Kochan will interview Ron Schatz, about his new book The Labor Board Crew: Remaking Worker-Employer Relations from Pearl Harbor to the Reagan Era, about the National War Labor Board, its distinguished members and its legacy for US labor-management relations and conflict resolution more broadly. Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow will discuss the book and the War Labor Board from the perspective of the legal fields of negotiations and conflict resolution.
Ronald W. Schatz, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
Thomas A. Kochan, George M. Bunker Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Distinguished Professor of Law (and Political Science), University of California Irvine Law School
Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Sponsored by LERA Councils
The Biden NLRB: What’s Ahead and Challenges
A discussion moderated by Josh Eidelson, a prominent labor reporter with Bloomberg, with Lauren McFerran, appointed by Pres. Biden as chair of the NLRB, with two distinguished former Board members, Marshall Babson, appointed by Pres. Reagan, now representing management, and Craig Becker, appointed by Pres. Obama, now the general counsel of the AFL-CIO. The discussion will cover a range of issues including politics and appointments, doctrinal change and policy oscillation at the Board, adjudication vs. rule-making, what specific challenges and issues can we expect ahead, the continuing relevance of this Depression era law.
Craig Becker, AFL-CIO General Counsel (and former NLRB member)
Marshall B. Babson, Counsel at Seyfarth Shaw, LLP (and former NRLB member)
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Sponsored by LERA International Council
New International and Comparative Labor and Employment Challenges:A Four Country Discussion
This webinar includes insights from Canada, Germany, South Africa and the USA. Speakers discuss employment relations issues in global supply chains, climate change and restructuring of sectoral employment, digitalisation, and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. How are such issues posing new and potentially transformative challenges for employment relations systems and stakeholders?
Co-Chairs: Greg J. Bamber, Monash University, Australia/Newcastle University, UK; Virginia Doellgast, Cornell University, USA. Panelists: Scott Walsworth, University of Saskatchewan, Canada; Sean O’Brady, McMaster University, Canada; Daphne G. Taras, Ryerson University, Canada; Berndt K. Keller, University of Konstanz, Germany; Johann Maree,University of Cape Town, South Africa; Asanda-Jonas Benya, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Harry C. Katz, Cornell University, USA; Alexander J.S. Colvin, Cornell University, USA. Discussant: Thomas A. Kochan, George M. Bunker Professor, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Reprise the 2026 Presidential Address featuring LERA (now Past-President) John Budd. Watch the video here.
