Quotes by Eugene Scalia - Page 1

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.
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Employers
Urged
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The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.
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Unemployment
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Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.
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Apprenticeship
Developing
Proven
Workforce
Model
Skilled
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Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.
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Agents
Deserve
Protection
Employees
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I've urged employers to address ergonomics and adopt ergonomics measures.
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Employers
Adopt
Measures
Urged
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Political activity by unions is not wrong. It's their First Amendment right.
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Activity
First Amendment
Unions
Amendment
Political Activity
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Before Trump, trade policy ceded our manufacturing strength to foreign nations.
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Manufacturing
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Despite its heightened duty, at times the SEC has been inattentive to economic analysis.
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Analysis
Despite
Sec
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I've taken pains to acknowledge that ergonomic pain is real and that ergonomics is valid.
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Acknowledge
Pains
Valid
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From his first days in the Oval Office, President Trump has prioritized the American worker.
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Oval
American Worker
Worker
Oval Office
President Trump
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The most important thing to me as a practitioner has been fidelity to my obligations and to the law.
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Fidelity
Obligations
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Financial regulators should be particularly attentive to the financial consequences of their actions.
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Attentive
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OSHA's decision to regulate home workplaces reflects the agency's expanding conception of its own mission.
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Agency
Conception
Expanding
Reflects
Regulate
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Running a business and need more skilled workers? If you're not considering apprenticeships, then you're behind the curve.
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Considering
Skilled Workers
Workers
Curve
Skilled
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The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly.
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Administrative
Circuit
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The H-1B program was never intended to create a pool of foreign labor that displaces Americans' opportunities for good-paying jobs.
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Labor
Pool
Good-Paying
Intended
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One of the biggest challenges for any new administration is contending with its predecessor's priorities and beginning to advance its own.
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Contending
Advance
Biggest Challenges
Predecessor
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For a lawyer to shade or slant his legal advice to advance a private agenda is among the gravest betrayals of his solemn duty as an attorney.
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Attorney
Shade
Solemn
Advance
Slant
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Many investors understandably want to do good while also doing well. But the standards for ESG investing are often unclear and sometimes contradictory.
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Contradictory
Investing
Standards
Unclear
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ESG investing poses particular concerns under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or Erisa, the federal law governing private retirement plans.
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Governing
Investing
Plans
Retirement
Concerns
Poses
Retirement Income
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Dodd-Frank is an important statute, but often when the government believes it's handling a particularly important issue, there can be a tendency to overreach.
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Dodd Frank
Believes
Handling
Important Issue
Tendency
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Whenever you're going into oral argument, it's preferable to be able to weave the arguments together. That gets harder when you split the argument into pieces.
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Oral
Preferable
Split
Weave
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Unions and their supporters in Congress claim that when employees vote on whether to unionize, the elections are tainted by employer intimidation. They're wrong.
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Congress
Intimidation
Tainted
Unions
Vote
Claim
Employees
Employer
Supporters
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I've advised clients to fire or take other serious action against executives and other managers who, in my judgment, had engaged in harassment or other misconduct.
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Clients
Engaged
Executives
Harassment
Managers
Misconduct
Advised
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I am not necessarily my clients. I will seek to defend them, to vindicate their rights but that doesn't mean that I necessarily think that what they did was proper.
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Clients
Rights
Defend
Seek
Necessarily
Proper
Vindicate
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U.S. companies should consider all the implications before signing agreements that give employees carte blanche to funnel company information to law-enforcement agencies.
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Blanche
Implications
Signing
Agencies
Agreements
Carte
Employees
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ESG investing often marches under the same banner as 'stakeholder capitalism,' which maintains that corporations owe obligations to a range of constituencies, not only their shareholders.
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Banner
Corporations
Investing
Range
Shareholders
Owe
Marches
Obligations
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I've written that there are some workplaces where the best thing you could have for achieving the best terms and conditions of employment will be a labor union. They play an important role.
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Conditions
Employment
Labor
Achieving
Best Important Will
Important Role
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The USMCA is certainly a historic bipartisan achievement by Trump, whose determination produced a trade deal supported by both labor unions and business along with Democrats and Republicans.
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Achievement
Bipartisan
Determination
Historic
Labor
Trade
Trump
Unions
Certainly
Democrats
Democrats And Republicans
Republicans
Produced
Whose
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Ergonomists are not physicians - they are engineers - and their medical theories are controversial. Some of the world's leading medical researchers deny that repetitive motion causes injury.
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Causes
Controversial
Deny
Engineers
Injury
Physicians
Repetitive
Researchers
Leading
Motion
Theories
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The USMCA ushers in a new era for trade policy. Between labor protections and support for the American automobile industry, it places our manufacturers at the center of a blue collar comeback.
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Automobile
Automobile Industry
Comeback
Labor
New Era
Collar
Manufacturers
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This is not a country where we look lightly at tens of millions of dollars in lost direct costs in restructuring entire industries, and say, well, that's not irreparable harm, it doesn't concern us.
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Concern
Harm
Irreparable
Restructuring
Industries
Lightly
Millions Of Dollars
Tens
Tens Of Millions
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The SEC and CFTC are expert agencies blessed with immensely capable professionals. Judges value and defer to that expertise - when it's exercised to make the hard decisions that Congress entrusts to an agency.
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Blessed
Capable
Congress
Expertise
Decisions
Agencies
Defer
Immensely
Judges
Professionals
Sec
Value
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OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the general welfare of working Americans, whether work itself is hazardous or not.
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General Welfare
Illness
Improving
Injury
Welfare
Hazardous
Regulate
Sees
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Community colleges, businesses, trade associations and others have begun to issue a range of their own credentials to certify when a worker has mastered a valuable expertise. Apprenticeships often fill this need perfectly.
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Credentials
Expertise
Range
Valuable
Associations
Worker
Begun
Colleges
Fill
Mastered
Perfectly
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It's widely recognized that employers and employees need more assistance addressing problems with rising health care costs. Attempts to address the problem are going to require a federal response, not a patchwork of state and local mandates.
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Assistance
Health Care Costs
Mandates
Response
Rising
Address
Attempts
Care Costs
Costs
Employees
Health Care Problems
Recognized
Require
Widely
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Businesses always are reluctant to make governmental filings about the purpose and terms of their relationships. That's particularly so when sensitive strategic and legal matters are involved - and when misfiling could result in criminal sanctions.
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Reluctant
Sanctions
Sensitive
Strategic
Criminal
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In a word, unions are not entitled to use retirement funds to raise costs at the companies where the funds are invested. And unionized corporations are not required to permit this. Rather, management trustees and the Labor Department are obligated to prevent it.
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Corporations
Department
Entitled
Labor
Management
Permit
Retirement
Unions
Funds
Invested
Obligated
Prevent
Required
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Programs funded by the Department of Labor have already opened doors for many Americans to become apprentices, particularly veterans, women and minorities. But government alone cannot equip the American workforce for the jobs of tomorrow. The private sector must lead.
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Department
Doors
Labor
Minorities
Private Sector
Workforce
Equip
Programs
Opened
Sector
Veterans
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At the heart of Erisa is the requirement that plan fiduciaries act with an 'eye single' to funding the retirements of plan participants and beneficiaries. This means investment decisions must be based solely on whether they enhance retirement savings, regardless of the fiduciary's personal preferences.
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Beneficiaries
Funding
Participants
Retirement
Savings
Enhance
Preferences
Regardless
Requirement
Solely
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President Trump was determined to replace NAFTA from the day he took office. It reflected the old way of trade deals in which our partners shirked labor protections while American companies shipped operations and jobs to cheaper foreign locations. Our factories shuttered, our manufacturing shrank, and we grew more dependent on foreign suppliers.
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Cheaper
Deals
Dependent
Determined
Factories
Labor
Manufacturing
Nafta
Operations
Partners
Suppliers
American Companies
Locations
President Trump
Reflected
Shipped
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