• Twenty years ago, some unions campaigned to make telecommuting illegal. Imagine if they’d managed to stop it [Reason 20 years ago feature, quoting my column back then]
• “Surge in working from home raises cyber exposure issues” [Judy Greenwald, Business Insurance]
• Provision slipped into CARES Act: mid-sized businesses that take a loan under the program would not be legally permitted to resist unionization [F. Vincent Vernuccio, Mackinac Center]
• Another effect of California’s awful AB5: interfering with availability of health care in parts of rural California that rely on itinerant medical contractors [K. Lloyd Billingsley, Independent Institute; earlier here, here]
• From before the crisis: insights into where federal Department of Labor is headed [speech by Secretary Eugene Scalia, teleforum with Jonathan Berry and Cheryl Stanton, both Federalist Society events] I’m quoted on the Trump administration record on labor issues, though to state the obvious my evaluation of it differs from the writer’s [Rachel Cohen, Washington Monthly]
• More from before crisis: New Virginia employment legislation lays out unusually broad definition of harassment, bad for employers and bad for speech [Hans Bader] Labor history overwhelmingly written by historians partial to the labor movement and its goals, and it shows [Mark Pulliam, Law and Liberty and Independent Review] “Details in new BLS report suggest that most of the gender earnings gap is explained by age, marital status, children, hours worked” [Mark Perry, AEI] “Do Right-to-Work Laws Work? Evidence on Individuals’ Well-Being and Economic Sentiment” [Christos Andreas Makridis, Journal of Law and Economics]

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