The Center for Labor and Employment Law was created in 1996 to establish a nonpartisan forum for the debate and study of the policy and legal issues involving the employment relationship.
Events
June 9-10, 2025
Join the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law’s lead conference on labor and employment law and policy. The new Republican administration has garnered more support from working Americans and some labor unions than in decades. Despite concerns in some quarters about the President’s style and willingness to discard or radically alter the existing playbook, that willingness also presents a historic opportunity for entertaining new approaches in workplace law and policy.
View the full agenda here today!
Faculty Director Professor Samuel Estreicher in the News:
- Turning Administrative Agencies into the President’s Puppets., April 17, 2025.
- Second Circuit Rebuffs Starbucks Strategy of Seeking Rank-and-File Employee Discovery in Labor Law Injunction Proceeding, June 4, 2024.
- Organizing Principles: Prof. Samuel Estreicher and Jack Samuel '23 argue that century-old federal labor laws give gig workers the right to engage in collective action, including union campaigns, without fear of antitrust liability, May 21, 2024, which was spotlighted on Converge here.
Faculty Director
Samuel Estreicher, Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University leads the Center for Labor & Employment Law. See Professor Estreicher in the News