2026--Panel 2 and Panel 3

2026--Panel 2 and Panel 3

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Description

Panel 2 will discuss local governmental efforts to create employment law and the extent to which state level actors and governments might encourage or frustrate efforts to fill federal enforcement gaps.

Panel 3 will discuss workplace injury remedies and safety and the often misunderstood and hidden ways that federal and state enforcement and administration in these areas interact.

Schedule

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. // Panel 2: Gaps, Opportunities & Obstacles to Local Employment Law Formation 

  • Richard von Glahn and Christopher Grant, "St. Louis City's Minimum Wage Ordinance and Missouri's Prop A:  Lessons about Regulation of the Workplace and Preemption from Legal and Political Victories (and Defeats) in the Midwest"
  • Jennifer A. Lee, "Local Legislative Mobilization: Lessons from Philadelphia’s POWER Act"
  • Robert Bruno, "To Be or Not to Be an Employee? Gig Work and Worker Rights.”
  • Justin R. Long, "Home Rule, State Preemption, and Equal Protection: State Constitutional Space for Local Law"

2:30 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. // Break 

2:40 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. // Panel 3: Worker Safety & Injury Complexity -- Hidden Federal/State Interplay 

  • Jim Anderson, "The Interplay of the Medicare Secondary Payer Law, 42 U.S.C. § 1395(y)(b)(2), with Every State’s Workers’ Compensation Law"

4:05 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. // Closing Remarks 

Webinar Date

3-6-2026

Keywords

Shifting Workplace Law, Era, Federal Vacuums, Business, Usual, Polycrisis, Labor and Employment Law, Enforcement, Employment, Worker, Interplay

Disciplines

Labor and Employment Law | Law

2026--Panel 2 and Panel 3

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