Compensation, Work Hours and Benefits

Each year, the New York University Annual Conference on Labor calls on
outstanding scholars and practitioners in the field to come together to survey
and analyse new developments and trends in U.S. labor law and practice.
Reproduced here are papers delivered at the 2004 conference, the 57th in this
venerable and highly influential series, with other articles either reprinted
from earlier publications or written for this volume. The theme of the 2004
Conference was "Compensation, Work Hours, and Benefits."

The broad range of contexts in which compensation, work hours, and benefits
issues and disputes arise is clearly on display in the many relevant aspects
with which the authors engage. These issues are gathered into nine categories
as follows:

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problems in ensuring acceptable compensation and work conditions in a global
economy;

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attempts by states and municipalities to implement living wage measures and
the potential conflict between such attempts and the doctrine of private labor
law preemption;

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the possible demise of traditional pension benefits;

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recent workplace developments arising in response to the Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA);

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the legality of policies surrounding attempts to keep workers' pay secret;

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special compensation claims typically found in securities industry arbitration;

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state protections for non-salary forms of compensation;

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regulation of multiemployer benefit plans by the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act (ERISA); and

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compensation, work hours and benefits issues with regard to multinational
organizations.

As always, this important annual publication offers definitive current
scholarship in its theme area of labor and employment law. As such, it will be
of inestimable value to practitioners, government officials, academics, and
others interested in developments in U.S. employment and labor relations law
and practice.