New PA law allows 8-80 overtime calculation method *

USA - July 12 2012
A newly enacted amendment to the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act expressly permits the use of the 8-80 method of calculating overtime, making clear that this method is permitted not only under federal law, but state law as well.

Co-authors: Kaitlin E. Picco, David S. Fryman , Alexandra Bak-Boychuk .

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Pennsylvania Senate takes up overtime bill clarifying 8-80 method *

USA - June 18 2012
A critical bill concerning the 8-80 method of calculating overtime passed the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last week and is now up for consideration before the state Senate.

Co-authors: David S. Fryman , Alexandra Bak-Boychuk .

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NLRB decision supports revisiting graduate students’ right to organize *

USA - October 29 2010
The National Labor Relations Board, in a decision reflective of the change in Board makeup under the Obama administration, has found that graduate students at New York University deserve a full hearing on their organizing efforts.

Co-authors: David S. Fryman , Daniel V. Johns .

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Seventh Circuit appellate court warns health care employers against acceding to racial preferences of patients *

USA - July 23 2010
A health care provider that relies on state laws relating to patient preferences to justify making race-based assignments may be creating a hostile work environment and subjecting itself to liability.

Co-authors: David S. Fryman , Katharine A. Crawford.

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NLRB chair signals about-face on grad student organizing *

USA - April 14 2010
Recent remarks by Wilma B. Liebman, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, make clear that one item on the agenda of a newly constituted NLRB will be reversal of the 2004 NLRB ruling that graduate students serving as university research and teaching assistants are primarily students, not employees, and thus do not have the right to unionize.

Co-authors: David S. Fryman , Daniel V. Johns .

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