Center for Labor and Employment Law
Conferences
The Center has just finished NYU's 62nd Annual Conference on Labor (June 4-5, 2009). The topic of this year's conference was "Labor and Employment Law Initiatives and Proposals Under the Obama Administration," an expansion of the Center's November 21, 2008 program.
On November 21, 2008, the Center for Labor and Employment Law brought together six labor specialists to discuss the likely development of labor and employment law under President-elect Barack Obama's administration. Panelists included Rosemary Alito (K&L Gates), Jonathan Hiatt (AFL-CIO), Peter Hurtgen (Morgan Lewis), Thomas Kochan (MIT Sloan School of Management), Andrew Kramer (Jones Day), Hon. Wilma Liebman (NLRB) and Marshall Babson (Hughes Hubbard).
Global Labor and Employment Law for the Practising Lawyer was the theme of New York University's 61st Annual Conference on Labor, June 5-6, 2008, the nation’s premier forum for the consideration of employment studies. Bringing together leading practitioners, government officials and academics, the NYU Conference offered a rare opportunity for sustained, balanced dialogue with the experts on cutting-edge developments concerning international labor and employment law and immigration."
About the Center
The Center for Labor and Employment Law was created in 1996 to provide a nonpartisan forum for debate and study of the policy and legal issues involving the employment relationship. Because labor represents a major component of U.S. productivity and constitutes on average 60-70% of the cost of doing business, improvements in the U.S. labor market are a key to the competitive future of our economy. Employment issues also vitally affect the quality of life of all Americans. The Center has four major objectives:
1) To promote workplace efficiency and productivity, while at the same time recognizing the need for justice and safety in the workplace and respecting the dignity of work and employees;
2) To promote independent, nonpartisan research that would improve understanding of employment issues generally, with particular emphasis on the connections between human resources decisions and organizational performance;
3) To sponsor a graduate program for the next generation of law teachers and leading practitioners in the field; and
4) To provide a forum for bringing together leaders from unions, employees and companies, as well as representatives of plaintiff and defense perspectives, for informal discussions exploring new frameworks for labor-management relations, workplace justice, fair and efficient resolution of employment disputes and representation in the workplace.