Under thequasi‐judicialstate

H‐1Bemployment rights in an era of judicial retrenchment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6090220
AutoresGeorge E Clark (0000-0003-3237-1271, California State University Los Angeles, autor correspondente), Gabrielle Clark (Department of Political Science California State University Los Angeles California USA)
Ano2023
Volume45
Fascículo1
Páginas81-106
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLaw & Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/lapo.12213
OpenAlexW4321215992
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas30

Foreign workers holding H‐1B visas gained recourse to federal employment rights under the Immigration & Nationality Act (INA) for the very first time when Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1990 (IMMACT90). This paper examines H‐1B employment rights enforcement under the INA as it has intersected with broader features of the American legal system: what political scientists call judicial retrenchment and the quasi‐judicial state. I first show how H‐1B rights, already limited by the domestic politics that shaped the IMMACT, became subject to judicial retrenchment when the federal courts confined H‐1B disputes under the INA to the quasi‐judicial state at the Department of Labor (DOL). I then use published data on DOL investigation outcomes, published and unpublished administrative case records, and judicial cases reviewing agency action to examine the extent to which and how H‐1B workers can use the quasi‐judicial state to solve workplace problems. My empirical findings contribute to a new understanding of the relationship between rights retrenchment, the judiciary, and the rise of alternatives to court in immigration and employment law and point to possible fine‐grained changes for future immigration reform

Agency (philosophy · Enforcement · Immigration · Judicial review · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Retrenchment · Sociology · State (computer science · Discrimination and Equality Law · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration