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| Company type | Labor Relations and Human Resources Professional Organization |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1947 |
| Headquarters | Champaign, Ill., USA |
| Key people | Gordon Pavy, President, AFL-CIO David Lewin, President-Elect,UCLA, Eileen Appelbaum, Past President, Center for Economic Policy and Research Francoise Carree and Christian Weller, Editor in Chief |
| Website | ] |
The Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA), founded in 1947 as the Industrial Relations Research Association (IRRA), is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources. The national organization has more than 3,000 members. LERA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that draws its members from the ranks of academia, management, labor and "neutrals." The organization uses the slogan "Shaping the Workplace of the Future."
LERA describes its constituencies as: professionals in the areas of academic research and education, compensation and benefits, human resources, labor and employment law, labor and management resources, labor markets and economics, public policy, training and development, and union administration and organizing.
Past presidents of LERA include [http://en.wikipedia.org/John_T._Dunlop Harvard economist and former labor secretary under President Gerald Ford. Dunlop advised 11 presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton; George P. Shultz, labor secretary and W.J. "Bill" Usery Jr.
LERA holds an annual membership and professional development meeting in January each year, as part of the Allied Social Sciences Association, and its National Policy Forum in alternate years in June in Washington, D.C.
In 2011, LERA held its 63rd annual meeting in Denver, Colo., in January. The 2011 National Policy Forum (June 6-7)is entitled: Competition, Jobs, and Equity in the Economic Recovery
At the 2011 annual meeting, LERA launched the Employment Policy Research Network Web site (EPRN). It consisted of about 100 researchers from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses) MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom. EPRN received startup funding from the Rockefeller and Russell Sage foundations. The principal investigator is Thomas A. Kochan, George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at MIT's Sloan School of Management and co-director of both the MIT Workplace Center and the Institute for Work and Employment Research.
In addition to Kochan, other members of the EPRN Steering Committee include:
- Eileen Appelbaum, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C.
- Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics at Harvard University
- David Lewin, Neil H. Jacoby Chair in Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management
- Lisa Lynch, dean and Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
- Daniel J.B. Mitchell, professor emeritus at the Anderson Graduate School of Management and the School of Public Affairs, U.C.L.A.
- Andrew Sum, professor of labor economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
EPRN divided the large subject of employment into 14 topics and research clusters of 20-40 researchers:
- Employment Regulations (David Weil, topic leader)
- Equal Employment Opportunity (Fidan Ana Kurtulus)
- Globalization, Employment and Labor Standards (tba)
- Immigration (tba)
- Industry Studies/Strategies (Larry Hunter, University of Wisconsin, topic leader)
- Labor Force Demographics/Supply (Andrew Sum and Paul Harrington, Northeastern, topic leaders)
- Labor-Management Relations (Peter Berg, Michigan State, topic leader)
- Public-Sector Employment Issues (Jeffrey Keefe, Rutgers, topic leader)
- Regional Economic Development/Adjustment (Peter B. Doeringer, Boston University)
- Skills, Work and Technology (David Feingold, Rutgers; Stephen Barley, Stanford; topic leaders)
- Social Insurance (Christian Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston, topic leader)
- Unemployment - Jobs Deficit/Growth (Till von Wachter, Columbia, topic leader)
- Wages-Compensation (Frank Levy, MIT, topic leader)
- Work-Family Policy (Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst, topic leader)
EPRN researchers self post formal academic research, op-ed commentaries and blogs. During its first three months, EPRN researchers published major in-depth research-policy briefs on unemployment, wage stagnationand collective bargaining. Columbia University economist Till von Wachter wrote the unemployment paper; MIT's Frank Levy and Thomas Kochan wrote the wage stagnation paper.
UCLA's David Lewin was the lead writer of the collective-bargaining paper; Kochan was co-author; also contributing to the writing and editing were University of Illinois' Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, New School for Social Research's Teresa Ghilarducci, Cornell's Harry Katz, Rutgers' Jeffrey Keefe, UCLA's Daniel J.B. Mitchell,Illinois' Craig Olson, Rutgers' Saul Rubinstein and University of Massachusetts, Boston's Christian Weller.
Membership includes subscriptions to a number of publications, advance information and discounts on meetings, and many other opportunities to meet the leaders in our field and share ideas through participating in industry councils and interest sections.
LERA offers a number of awards, recognitions and grants each year. Its most prestigious award is the John T. Dunlop Scholar Award. Two Dunlop Scholar Awards are given each year. One goes to an academic who makes the best contribution to international and/or comparative labor and employment research. A second award recognizes an academic for research that addresses an industrial relations/employment problem of national significance in the United States. Other awards include: Thomas A. Kochan & Stephen R. Sleigh Best Dissertation Award Chapter Merit Awards Excellence in Education Awards LERA Fellows Lifetime Achievement Award James G. Scoville Best International Paper Award John T. Dunlop Scholar Awards Outstanding Practitioner Award Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Award Susan C. Eaton Scholar-Practitioner Grant Michael R. Losey Human Resource Research Award Sloan Industry Fellowships Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Grant
LERA publishes a number of research reports and books, as well as an annual compendium of research, an annual proceedings, a newsletter and a membership director. It also publishes the bi-annual journal, Perspectives on Work. The LERA Labor and Employment Law Section publishes a monthly on-line newsletter that is posted on the LERA website and distributed through the main LERA listserve.
The Labor and Employment Relations Association has more than 50 local Chapters where members meet colleagues in the private, public and federal sectors, as well as faculty from local universities and third-party neutrals. Local Chapter members value the opportunity to learn about matters of importance in their area and to exchange off-the-record observations with chapter speakers and members.
External links
- Labor and Employment Relations Association
- Employee Relations Specialist Career Information
- Employment Policy Research Network
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