Public Impact

Discovering that you owe the government thousands of dollars in Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) overpayments can be life-disrupting. These overpayments happen at no fault of the beneficiary. Jennifer Brooks, a researcher at the Cornell ILR School's Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, provides a personal account of this issue.

Zoë West, senior researcher for worker rights and equity at Cornell ILR’s The Worker Institute (WI), has been selected as one of the Engaged Faculty Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Matt is fascinated by the law and its relationship to disability and criminal justice. He is an energetic teacher and researcher in Cornell University’s ILR School, and he has taken on roles involving equity in employment.

Jennifer D. Brooks and Sarah von Schrader investigated how access to remote work for people with disabilities has been affected since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For Second Chance Month, Cornell ILR’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative (CJEI) launched a beta version of its Restorative Record, a digital hiring tool for justice-impacted job candidates to secure employment against exclusionary practices and stigma.

Join us on Wednesday, April 24, for the Center for Applied Research on Work's webinar "Qualified But Denied: How Policy Change Can Expand Access to Employment for Justice-Impacted New Yorkers."

Register now and join Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, Partnership for the Public Good, national and local community and labor representatives for Uniting on the High Road: A Conference on Economic Justice at the Local Level on June 20-22, 2024, in Buffalo, NY.

An op-ed in The Hill recommends improvements for how the Social Security Administration manages overpayments to workers with disabilities.

Four people affiliated with ILR helped foster a $750,000 grant supporting the Ray Corollary Initiative's mission to increase diversity within the alternative dispute resolution profession.

The Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability's Kaitlyn Jackson and Ellice Switzer discuss the practice of paying subminimum wages to people with disabilities.

Postdoctoral fellow Youbin Kang will work with Professors Gleeson and Griffith to research recent policy changes by the Department of Homeland Security.

A Future of Work project is assessing what unfolds for both employees – and their hiring managers – during their first months on the job.

Differences in wages and compensation are one of the primary sources of economic inequality. ILR's Anne Marie Brady and Russell Weaver explain prevailing wage, and why it matters.

Bart de Koning is part of the ILR’s Labor Dynamics Institute.

Join the ILR Global Labor Institute in New York City to discuss three big topics: climate breakdown and global production, due diligence and lead firm liability, and identifying forced labor.

As a companion to the living wage explainer, here we explore details about calculating meaningful living wages.

We explain how you can figure out a meaningful living wage for an area. We help make sense of the kinds of data you need, and link to calculators for more exploration.

A new free website explains work incentives that assist people who receive government disability benefits with moving ahead in their careers.

Prevailing wage laws protect New Yorkers from a race to the bottom, panelists said during the launch of the new report by Cornell ILR’s The Worker Institute on Sept. 12.

A seven-year, multi-university partnership will examine migrant workers and international mobility programs in New Zealand, also known as Aotearoa, Australia, Canada and the U.S.

The center facilitates new partnerships within the ILR School and across Cornell to improve work, labor and employment.

After a decade of training supported employment specialists in New York, the Yang-Tan Institute shares some successes and looks to the future.

New column in Harvard Data Science Review edited from LDI

More than 3,000 justice-involved people, employers, law enforcement personnel and others have received training since 2018 through an ILR program.

Drawing on faculty expertise in labor relations, labor law, anthropology, economics, history, political science and sociology, the Global Labor and Work Department studies workers, employers and the government policies affecting them.

A recent profile by the American Psychological Association shares expert advice from Susanne Bruyère for recruiting and hiring people who are neurodiverse. It also discusses the importance of neurodiversity in the workplace.

The Cornell ILR Empire State Poll (ESP) 2022 shows that over 68% of New York residents are concerned about the impacts of climate change and more than 70% of New Yorkers have been impacted by climate change in the past five years

Created by the Work Incentive Support Center in the Yang-Tan Institute on Employment and Disability, a new website explains Supplemental Security Income work incentives.

Skinner, Executive Director of the Climate Jobs Institute at Cornell ILR, presents at the White House Forum on Campus and Community-Scale Climate Change Solutions

Since joining the National Football League Players Association as its general counsel & head of business, Sean Sansiveri ’05 has been behind the NFL’s most important measures to make the game safer.

Union leaders, elected officials, non-profit organizations and others across the nation are lauding the growth of the ILR School initiative.

Casey Platkin advocated for a minimum wage increase in California’s San Mateo County, where thousands of low-wage workers will see bigger paychecks.

Timothy McNutt, Esq  participated at the The Queensboro Correctional Facility winter resource fair on Friday, December 9th. The resource fair included employment and educational opportunities, family reunification, parental and child support, housing, health, discharge planning, and substance abuse assistance.

A new working paper by the Global Labor Institute delves into the lessons learned by the apparel industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and explores how to better handle future crises.

The Restorative Record project, led by Timothy McNutt, Matthew Saleh, and Jodi Anderson explored connections that can be drawn from experiences of justice-impacted workers to other marginalized workers and how these experiences relate to broader themes of access to work, equity, and economic development.

On November 29, 2022, Cornell ILR, hosted a roundtable discussion on emerging trends in work, labor, and employment at the New York City Conference Center.

The CJEI team addressed issues surrounding criminal records, third-party background checks and employment discrimination.

Timothy McNutt, Director of the Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative at Cornell ILR, partnered with Cornell’sPrison Reform and Education Project (PREP) in November 2022 to deliver a presentation on the topic of  justice-impacted access to work.

Closing pay gaps will require employers, some of whom have little infrastructure or capacity to uphold the law, to think carefully about their compensation spectrum, experts said at an ILR forum.

Cornell ILR’s Criminal Justice and Employment Initiative offered an employment rights class in partnership with the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office on October 26, 2022.

Peter Bamberger, Ph.D. ’90, research director of ILR’s Smithers Institute and a Tel Aviv University professor who has written a book on exposing pay, is among the experts who will speak at a Tuesday event.

Marie-Catherine Mignault is part of ILR’s Experimental Psychology and Organizations Lab. ExPo Lab.