Bottom-up workplace law enforcement—which occurs when an individual worker files a claim against their employer—fails to protect the workers who are the most vulnerable to workplace rights violations. According to new research from ILR Professor Shannon Gleeson and coauthor Jacob Lesniewski, even workers that have legal knowledge and incentives to bring forward claims do so at an emotional cost that makes individual action unsustainable on a broad scale.
Fighting for worker rights takes psychological toll
Reader’s Picks
-
As the new Premier League football season gets underway, a few things are certain. There will be goals, drama and [...]
-
HBO’s fantasy series “Game of Thrones” dominated television and pop culture discourse for much of a decade. Its upcoming prequel [...]
-
Research from Royal Holloway, along with the University of Essex, and the University of Bristol, found that older people can [...]