The 2008 Election and the Future of Labor and Employment Law

The Obama victory and a filibuster-proof, or effectively filibuster-proof, Senate could mean the most change in federal labor and employment law since the 1960s and, with respect to union organizing, possibly since the 1930s. The object of the briefing is to preview the changes in federal labor and employment law that may occur as a result of the 2008 Presidential and Congressional elections.

Program Topics Include:
- EFCA
- RESPECT Act
- Patriot Employer Act
- Possible repeal of Section 14b, which authorizes state right to work laws
- Expansion of the FMLA
- Healthy Families Act (mandatory paid sick days)
- Working Families Flexibility Act
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
- Paycheck Fairness Act (revision of Equal Pay Act)
- Equal Remedies Act
- Employment Non-Discrimination Act
- Arbitration Fairness Act
- Possible expansion of WARN

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