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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Monthly Labor Review Online [29 January 2010]

January 2010

Vol. 133, Number 1

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/

or

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/01/mlr201001.pdf

[full-text, 138 pages]

 

State labor legislation enacted in 2009

John J. Fitzpatrick, Jr., James L. Perine, and Bridget Dutton

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/01/art1full.pdf

[full-text, 34 pages]

 

Drug and alcohol testing, equal employment opportunity,

human traffi cking, immigration protections, independent

contractors, the minimum wage, prevailing wages, wages paid,

and worker privacy were among the most active areas

in which State legislatures either enacted or revised

legislation during the year

 

Changes in Federal and State unemployment insurance legislation in 2009

Loryn Lancaster

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/01/art2full.pdf

 

 

Crash and reboot: Silicon Valley high-tech employment and wages, 2000–08

Amar Mann and Tian Luo

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/01/art3full.pdf

[full-text, 15 pages]

 

On the whole, high-tech industries in Silicon Valley declined

sharply in employment and wages from 2000 to 2004 but increased

gradually in both respects from 2004 to 2008; though the industry

mix changed during the 8-year period, Silicon Valley remains

the world ’s leading high-tech hub

 

Report

 

Union membership attrition

Gary Chaison

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/01/art4full.pdf

[full-text, 3 pages]

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Institute for Workplace Studies 
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New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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