SMLR Shares Expertise on How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing the World of Work

The New York Times interviews Janice Fine of the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization about her new study, which finds that minimum wage violations go up during periods of high unemployment. | The Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, South Florida Sun Sentinel, and several other newspapers republish the story.

Rutgers Today publishes a Q&A with Joseph Blasi of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing about his plan to read 25 books on the Great Depression.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) publishes an op-ed by Kyra Leigh Sutton about how to cut through your manager’s cluttered inbox.

New Jersey 101.5 interviews Debra Lancaster of the Center for Women and Work about the disproportionate number of women leaving the workforce.

Marketplace interviews Javier Morillo, a research fellow in the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization, about the challenges facing the labor movement and what to expect after the pandemic.

The Chronicle of Higher Education writes about how unions representing faculty, staff, and graduate students are now working together to protect their members during the pandemic, quoting Rebecca Kolins Givan.

Insider NJ publishes a press release by New Jersey Policy Perspective, noting that Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work is among the economists urging the state’s leaders to avoid cutting health and social services.

Law360 Tax Authority interviews Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work about why she joined 95 other economists and economic policy experts in writing a letter to state leaders.

The Star-Ledger publishes an op-ed, co-authored by Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work, arguing that New Jersey should raise taxes on the wealthy instead of cutting health and social services during a pandemic.

Tax Notes reports on the letter urging Governor Murphy and New Jersey’s legislative leaders to raise taxes on the state’s highest earners, quoting signatory Yana Rodgers of the Center for Women and Work.