This Week’s Top Hits

Cathy Creighton, director of ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab, comments on federal labor law.

“I can’t help but worry some deadlines are going to be missed and undetected biases or other errors are going to start creeping into some of these reports just because of the reduction in staff,” said Erica Groshen, ILR senior economic advisor and former Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner.

“Employers also know that delays are likely to hurt union efforts,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of labor education research at ILR, who was quoted in an article about efforts to unionize at Ford’s Blue Oval SK Battery Park in Kentucky.

Sarah von Schrader, director of research and program evaluation at the Yang-Tan Institute in the ILR School, comments on a proposed rule from the Department of Labor to end a required disability hiring goal for federal contractors.

“The more often you encounter someone or something, the more you report liking that thing or being attracted to that person,” said Vanessa Bohns, ILR professor of organizational behavior, commenting on romantic relationships in the workplace.

This article references a study of American biotech firms by Rebecca Kehoe, ILR professor of human resource studies.