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France’s Shorter Work Week Hit Lower-Skilled Workers Harder

Cornell Chronicle
Elio Nimier-David, assistant professor of economics in the ILR School, and a team of researchers found that while France’s 1998 workweek reduction reform generally left employment unchanged, there were several large, offsetting effects.
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France’s Shorter Work Week Hit Lower-Skilled Workers Harder

Student Receives Kheel Center Award for Outstanding Research

Cornell Chronicle
Cornell University Library honored ILR School student Strummer Dunn ’29 with the Kheel Center Undergraduate Research Award, an annual prize of $500 for outstanding scholarship using research materials at the Kheel Center for Labor-Documentation and Archives or other archival repositories at the library.
Strummer Dunn ’29 won the 2026 Kheel Center Undergraduate Research Award
Student Receives Kheel Center Award for Outstanding Research

Thousands of Benefits Planners Is Ray Cebula’s Legacy

Ray Cebula reflects on his legacy and the impact of his life’s work to train benefits planners to assist people with disabilities who want to work.
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Thousands of Benefits Planners Is Ray Cebula’s Legacy

Cute Robots, Historical Chatbots: AI in the Classroom

Cornell Chronicle
Scott Seidenberger ’16, a postdoctoral associate in human resource studies, designed Hopper, a robot and chatbot to illustrate how AI may manifest in the workplace.
Scott Seidenberger ’16 uilt Hopper from scratch so students can see the logic on which it is built and play a role in developing it and improving it over the course of his class.
Cute Robots, Historical Chatbots: AI in the Classroom

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France’s Shorter Work Week Hit Lower-Skilled Workers Harder

Cornell Chronicle
Elio Nimier-David, assistant professor of economics in the ILR School, and a team of researchers found that while France’s 1998 workweek reduction reform generally left employment unchanged, there were several large, offsetting effects.
An image showing part of a calendar with Friday, Saturday and Sunday shaded out
France’s Shorter Work Week Hit Lower-Skilled Workers Harder

Using Less Politically Charged Language Can ‘Lower the Temperature’ on DEI Training

Cornell Chronicle
Replacing commonly used diversity, equity and inclusion-related terminology such as “belonging” with carefully matched alternative language may improve Republicans’ favorability toward diversity training, according to new research from Devon Proudfoot and Sean Fath.
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Using Less Politically Charged Language Can ‘Lower the Temperature’ on DEI Training

Workplace Narcissists Crave More Than a Quiet Paise

Cornell Chronicle
According to a new study by Emily Zitek, associate professor of organizational behavior, all employees like private rewards – a salary increase or glowing performance review that’s not broadcast to others in the workplace – but narcissists also want to have rewards made public for their colleagues to see.
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Workplace Narcissists Crave More Than a Quiet Paise

Bohns’ Book: Speak Up or Keep it to Yourself?

Cornell Chronicle
In her new book, “Should I Say Something? The Science of What to Share – And What to Keep to Yourself” Vanessa Bohns, the Braunstein Family Professor, offers a guide for navigating challenging situations based on her own and others’ research.
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Bohns’ Book: Speak Up or Keep it to Yourself?

Private Equity Ownership Results in Poor Working Conditions in NYS Home Care

Cornell Chronicle
Private equity firms’ investment in home care agencies perpetuates poor working conditions for workers by continuing the exploitation that is prevalent across the industry, according to a new study from the ILR School’s Worker Institute.
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Private Equity Ownership Results in Poor Working Conditions in NYS Home Care

Kheel Center Exhibit Weaves Clothing, Work and the Environment

Cornell Chronicle
As climate change intensifies, what workers wear becomes a question of survival, a dire prospect explored by a new Cornell University Library exhibit, which opens on Oct. 8 at the Catherwood Library.
A photo of cotton farmers in Arkansas in 1937, part of a series of photographs by Louise Boyle, who documented the living and working conditions of members of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union.
Kheel Center Exhibit Weaves Clothing, Work and the Environment

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California state scientists union missed early warning signs of unfunded raises

The Sacramento Bee
Union members probably would have stayed with the union despite a delay in receiving an expected pay raise, explains Kate Bronfenbrenner, ILR senior lecturer emeritus, pointing out several advantages of union membership.
California state scientists union missed early warning signs of unfunded raises

Nike helped invent modern factory monitoring. Workers, critics say it falls short

The Oregonian
“There have been minor improvements, like a slight decline in hours worked, and whether workers are paid correctly, and declines in child labor,” says Sarosh Kuruvilla, academic director of the Global Labor Institute, commenting on progress to improve working conditions for garment factory workers in Vietnam and Indonesia.
Nike helped invent modern factory monitoring. Workers, critics say it falls short

Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry

Mongabay
More heat stress leads to less revenue for the garment industry; heat stress was linked to a 4.1% decrease in annual revenue at a representative Bangladeshi factory in a recent report from ILR’s Global Labor Institute.
Extreme heat is creating a workplace health crisis in Bangladesh’s garment industry
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Microsoft AI agreement is only a first step for teachers unions

September 10, 2026

“The agreement between the AFT and Microsoft is a starting point, but it leaves some of the biggest questions about AI in classrooms unanswered ... The central question is whether teacher unions will negotiate over exactly how AI is used in the classroom."

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Labor Day 2026: Cornell experts on AI, the changing workplace

Sept. 3, 2026

Artificial intelligence has quickly become one of the defining issues in the workplace, with employers and workers alike grappling with how the technology will change jobs, productivity, wages and the balance of power at work.

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