Benjamin Woodard

Nov 21, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Benjamin Woodard |Maya Cherayil

On November 5, 2024, Missouri voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition A, increasing the state's minimum wage and requiring employers with 15 or more employees to provide mandatory paid sick leave for Missouri employees beginning May 1, 2025. Under the new law, most Missouri employees will be entitled to earn one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Moreover, the new law does not include a maximum amount of sick leave an employee can accrue.

Jun 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Benjamin Woodard

In Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout brings together characters from her previous novels for a story centered on a Maine woman’s disappearance. This novel features characters from your prior work. How did you manage to make it accessible for new readers? I know these characters so well. If somebody hasn’t read any of my earlier work, I slipped in a phrase between a couple of commas to give them enough to go on without knowing anything.

Jun 13, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Benjamin Woodard |Chiara Marchelli

Set during the 1962 FIFA World Cup hosted by Chile, Carlos Labbé’s The Murmuration is an experimental high-wire act that uses the framework of soccer to comment on gender and class warfare, as well as rising consumerism, within the nation.

Aug 18, 2023 | dailyprincetonian.com | Benjamin Woodard |Rebecca Roth |Danielle Shapiro |Marie Riddle

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the authors’ views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. Princeton University contributes to society through truth seeking: a pursuit necessitating academic freedom and institutional neutrality. Yet recent discussion of an upcoming Princeton course has prompted us, as leaders of the Princeton Open Campus Coalition (POCC), to reiterate the truth-seeking mission and how it functions on  campus.

Dec 6, 2022 | seattletimes.com | Benjamin Woodard