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Labor and Employment Law
Kang Joins Future of Work Initiative
Youbin Kang is researching the impact of immigration status on workplace precarity.
Elon Musk praises Chinese workers for ‘burning the 3am oil’ – here’s what that really looks like
The Guardian
Eli Friedman, associate professor in the ILR School, says, “Excessive overtime is kind of a built-in feature of the whole model of industrial development in China. Very long hours and compulsory overtime, while not legal, are also completely the norm.”
According to the latest BLS data, 4.2 million Americans are long-term unemployed, meaning they’ve been jobless for 27 weeks or more. Professor Francine Blau says that in addition to the personal hardships, long-term unemployment is bad for the economy as a whole.
