CHEFS Projects
Improving Protections for Workers on Leave From Their Jobs
Faculty Research
Universal Insurance: Enhancing Economic Security to Promote Opportunity, Jacob Hacker, Brookings, September 2006
A Defense of Paid Family Leave, Gillian Lester, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol 28, No. 1 (2005)
Let Employees Control Their Paid Time Off Stephen Sugarman, Knight-Ridder, 1999
Unemployment Insurance and Wealth Redistribution, Gillian Lester, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 1 (2001)
Universal Risk Insurance, Jacob Hacker, Tobin Project, 2007
How Family Leave Laws Left Out Low-Income Workers, Ann O'Leary, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2007)
Impact of Leave Laws and Leave Policies on Employer and Worker Behavior, Catherine Albiston (forthcoming)
Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences, Mary Ann Mason, Center for American Progress, November 2009.
Extended Time Off from Work for Caregiving Responsibility
Currently, Congress is considering separate bills to mandate paid sick leave, provide paid family leave and reform the Unemployment Insurance system. This project is reviewing the existing leave programs, developing a research agenda to study questions related to leave policies, and working to developing a more comprehensive leave policy to replace and expand upon existing leave programs. This project is being done in collaboration with Georgetown Law Center’s Workplace Flexibility 2010 project.
Supporting Workers in Flexible and Secure Jobs Faculty Research
Careers and Contingency Gillian Lester, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 51, No. 1 (Nov., 1998)
Good Government Workplace Flexibility Initiative
The federal government—both as the largest employer and the largest contracting agency in the United States—has the potential to serve as a model of family-friendly workplace practices, provide incentives to businesses to change their workplace policies, and create a tremendous ripple effect across the public and private sectors. The purpose of this initiative is to determine whether and how the federal government might leverage its power to promote flexible family friendly workplace policies and practices in businesses that contract with the government. Berkeley CHEFS proposes to research existing family-friendly policies and practices (or the lack of them) in the federal government and in businesses that contract with the government and to turn this research into concrete policy, regulatory or legislative proposals to improve flexible family-friendly policies and practices.
Work/Family Scholarship
Faculty Research
Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers, Mary Ann Mason and Eve Mason Ekman, 2007
Bargaining in the Shadow of Social Institutions, Catherine Albiston, Law and Society Review, March 2005
Institutional Perspectives on Law Work and Family, Catherine Albiston, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2007