Labor and Employment Relations Association
The Labor and Employment Relations Association( LERA), was founded in 1947 as the Industrial Relations Research Association.
LERA is an organization for professionals in industrial relations and human resources.
Headquartered at the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, the organization has more than 3,000 members at the national level and in its local chapters.
LERA is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that draws its members from the ranks of academia, management, labor and" neutrals"( arbitrators and mediators).
The organization uses the slogan" Advancing Workplace Relations."
LERA's constituencies are 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.
The executive director of LERA is Emily Smith.
Past presidents of LERA include John T. Dunlop, George Shultz, and Ray Marshall, all of whom went on to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor.
LERA encourages research into all areas of the field of labor, employment, the workplace, employer/ employee organization, employment and labor relations, human resources, labor markets, income security, and the international dimensions of all of these areas.
The organization takes a multi-disciplinarian approach and includes scholars from various disciplines including industrial relations, history, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, law, management, labor studies, and others.
LERA promotes full discussion and exchange of ideas between and among all of its constituencies —academic, labor, management, neutral, and government—on the planning, development and results of research in these fields, as well as its useful application in both practice and policy.
LERA is also disseminates the latest research, challenges in the field, and best practices to researchers, practitioners, and the public, by holding meetings, producing materials and publications.
The association assumes no partisan position on questions of policy in these fields, but is an open forum respecting all opinions and perspectives.
The association supports fundamental worker and human rights in the workplace and supports rights of the employees, employers, and their organizations to organize.
Emigrant Bank
Emigrant Bank( formerly Emigrant Savings Bank) is a private American financial institution, it is the oldest savings bank in New York City and it was the ninth- largest privately owned bank in America in 2012.
It is the largest privately- held, family- owned and operated bank in America in 2019.
It has several online- only divisions that offer high yield savings accounts, including Emigrant Direct, Dollar Savings Direct and their latest offering, My Savings Direct.
Emigrant Bank is a subsidiary of New York Private Bank& Trust Corporation and as of March 31, 2019 its assets were US$ 5.696 billion.
UCLA Labor Center
The Labor Center is a research and extension department at the University of California Los Angeles focused on organized labor and labor rights.
It was created in 1964 as the Center for Labor Research and Education and is a unit of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
Perspectives on Work
Perspectives on Work is an annual publication of the Labor and Employment Relations Association( LERA).
" Perspectives on Work" was founded in 1997 and is published annually.
The magazine is based in Champaign, Illinois.
It was published biannually until 2009.
It contains news about LERA activities as well as scholarly articles on workplace law, economics and human resources( HR) from both an HR perspective as well as labor relations.
The publication covers a variety of labor relations topics, including law, workplace culture, labor history, the effect of economic dislocation and change on employer- employee relations, corporate governance, workplace sociology and leadership, and other issues.
The target audience is academics and practitioners in labor and employment relations from both a managerial and worker perspective.
" Perspectives on Work" also includes news articles and reports about LERA activities and professional development offerings, as well as book reviews.
UIUC School of Labor and Employment Relations
The School of Labor and Employment Relations( LER) is a graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign.
Founded in 1946, the school is the second oldest labor and industrial relations school in the nation.
Students at Illinois can earn a Master of Human Resources and Industrial Relations( terminal professional degree) or a PhD in Industrial Relations( which is typically accompanied by an M.S. degree during the process of earning the doctorate).
The school focuses on the MHRIR program.
Until August 2008, LER was known as the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.
In spring, 2015, the master's program expanded to accommodate an online program targeted to working professionals.
" Although there is no formal ranking process for HR/ IR programs, employers and students acknowledge that the University of Illinois is one of the top three programs" according to the School of Labor and Employment Relations website.
Employment Relations Act
Employment Relations Act( with its variations) is a stock short title used in New Zealand and in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to employment relations.
Secretary of Labor and Employment (Philippines)
The Secretary of Labor and Employment is the Cabinet of the Philippines member in charge of the Department of Labor and Employment.
The current Secretary is Silvestre Bello III, who assumed office on June 30, 2016.
Florida Public Relations Association
Founded in 1938, the Florida Public Relations Association is the oldest public relations association in the United States.
The statewide organization is composed of nearly 1,000 public relations professionals dedicated to:
Thomas Anton Kochan
Thomas A. Kochan( born September 28, 1947) is a professor of industrial relations, work and employment.
He is the George Maverick Bunker Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he has been a faculty member since 1980.
He is author of the books" Restoring the American Dream: A Working Families' Agenda for America" and Shaping the Future of Work.
In 2010, Kochan led the formation of the Employment Policy Research Network( EPRN), an online think tank on the subject of employment, a project of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, supported by the Rockefeller and Russell Sage foundations.
The EPRN web site launched in January 2011 with 100 researchers from 35 universities, including MIT, Harvard, California- Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Michigan State, Pennsylvania State University and UCLA.
He served as Chair of the MIT Faculty from 2009 to 2011.
He came to MIT in 1980 as a Professor of Industrial Relations.
From 1988 to 1991 he served as Head of the Behavioral and Policy Sciences Area in the Sloan School.
He has served as a third- party mediator, fact finder, and arbitrator and as a consultant to a variety of government and private sector organizations and labor- management groups.
He was a consultant for one year to the Secretary of Labor in the Department of Labor ’s Office of Policy Evaluation and Research.
Kochan focuses on the need to update America ’s work and employment policies, institutions, and practices to catch up with a changing workforce and economy.
Through empirical research, he demonstrates that fundamental changes in the quality of work and employment relations are needed to address America ’s critical problems in industries ranging from healthcare to airlines to manufacturing.
Ministry of Labor and Employment
Ministry of Labor and Employment or Ministry of Labour and Employment may refer to:

Question: Are Emigrant Bank and Labor And Employment Relations Association both located in the same country?
Answer: yes