Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said his office's investigations and reviews of records from five towns
show state labor law is too complex and open to interpretation.
Not exact matches
This map, created by
labor and employment - focused
law firm Fisher Phillips, highlights legislative differences between
states by
showing which ones have gender - specific pay protections, gender - specific protections as well as protections for other categories (such as race, religion or national origin), or no
state - specific pay equity
laws at all.
For example, David Sims has
shown that after a 2001 Wisconsin
law required schools to open after
Labor Day, districts forced to delay their start dates saw their students» achievement on the
state math test fall relative to districts that were unaffected by the
law.
Other research
shows that changes in these
laws caused the pace of teachers» unionization to vary considerably, even among
states with very similar
labor markets such as Ohio and Illinois.