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Dear Friends,
Please join us on Wednesday, September 30th at 12pm EDT (9am PDT) to hear about and discuss the results of a national study on labor standards violations during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The research, which provides a cautionary tale for our current recession, was published by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth and highlighted in this New York Times article.
Northwestern Political Scientist Dan Galvin will share results that include:
- The rise and fall of minimum wage violations that mirrored that of unemployment;
- Workers earning low wages lost one-fifth of their wages, on average;
- Immigrants, Black, Latinx, and women workers were 1.5 to 2 times more likely to suffer a violation than non-immigrant, white, or male workers - and up to 4 times as likely if they belonged to two of the listed protected classes; and
- An April 2020 survey of California voters showed that many vulnerable workers are unaware of state and federal paid leave protections.
The presenters include Michelle Holder, Assistant Professor of Economics at City University of New York, whose research focuses on the Black community and women of color in the American labor market, including the impact of the Great Recession, and David Weil, Dean of the Heller School at Brandeis and former Wage and Hour Administrator at USDOL. They will draw on years of experience to discuss how enforcement can disrupt this trend. RSVP for the webinar here.
We look forward to this conversation!
Sincerely,
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