In recent years, local governments across the United States have enacted labor protections, including mandatory paid leave, a higher minimum wage, antidiscrimination measures, and wage theft protections. In response, several state legislatures have passed laws designed to preempt certain local regulation. May a local government, “if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory to try experiments in workplace regulation ‘without risk to the rest of the country?’” For example, local ‘right-to-work’ laws have been adopted in a dozen Kentucky counties, and similar efforts were recently made in Illinois. Are these local laws permitted by the National Labor Relations Act? Are they good policy in any event? This program will cover these and other issues raised by the rise of local workplace regulation.
Business meeting at program conclusion.