
Michael Oswalt
@michaelmoswalt
Rooting for the Red Sox, Thinking about Labor Law.
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13-01-2010 04:42:54
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1/2 In the past decade, over a dozen states have banned employers from retaliating against workers who discuss pay. How are these laws working? As we conclude in Business Insider, not well. businessinsider.com/pay-transparen…

Out of fear of reprisal or just social convention, not discussing salary has been the status quo. But in recent years, a push to pay transparency has become increasingly popular. Jake Rosenfeld, Michael Oswalt, and Patrick Denice explain. #longreads⇩ businessinsider.com/pay-transparen…

I wrote in Balls & Strikes that, yes, Glacier Northwest "could have been worse," but that's a tiresome refrain that acclimatizes the public to a Supreme Court that's constantly whittling away at peoples’ rights and increasing the power of corporations ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/glacier…




Since 2010, over a dozen states have passed #laws prohibiting pay secrecy. But do state anti-secrecy laws actually reduce pay secrecy? Read More: spkl.io/60194mimF Subscribe: spkl.io/60104mim2 Michael Oswalt Wayne Law Jake Rosenfeld Patrick Denice #LawTwitter





The lead article in California Law Review Vol. 112 is out! In Consumer Law as Work Law, 112 Calif. L. Rev. 1 (2024), I argue that when employers sell their workers services and credit products, those worker-consumers are entitled to consumer law protections. ssrn.com/abstract=41725…

"There is one way for workers to effectively push back on creeping workplace surveillance: collective bargaining." thehill.com/opinion/techno… via TheHillOpinion Charlotte Garden Michael Oswalt #MOworkers at #STL8 are leading on this front with a ULP they recently filed.


Excited to share my law review article "State Policy Levers to Fight Child Labor." Huge thanks to the The Arkansas Law Review team for their work on the piece. Please share widely - there's so much states can do to deter #ChildLabor violations. Here's a link: scholarworks.uark.edu/alr/vol77/iss2…


The 19th Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment & Labor Law (COSELL) is fast approaching! Download the program & the abstracts on our website: cosellaw.org/index.html! See you in SD (USanDiegoLaw @CWSL_News) on Sept. 14! Thanks to the organizers Orly Lobel & Susan Bisom-Rapp🙏

Great times presenting Wayne Law faculty workshop today! Grateful to super host Michael Oswalt & to the faculty for deep engagement with my paper Third-Party Accommodations🙏🏻 Complete with fab meals with Taleed El-Sabawi, JD, PhD & Lance Gable+visit to Detroit Inst of Arts. Detroit is awesome 🤩



Highlights of today Wayne Law: - awesome Qs from students & faculty - hanging out w/ Michael Oswalt, Dr. Jennifer Bird-Pollan, Jennifer Taub, Nancy Chi Cantalupo & more - Zoom-ability so my little sister could watch remotely & learn that my job really is talking about my dog đź“·: my sister



Breaking my social media silence for this exciting package I just got! A significant revamp, plus virtually all the Biden Board changes (sigh), make this a major effort. Glad to have it out. Thx to my co-authors MICHAEL C. DUFF and Paul M. Secunda
