The ILR Undergraduate Research Fellows Program provides ILR undergraduates with the opportunity to work with a professor during academic year 2024-2025. This program was developed in response to numerous requests we have received from undergraduates for research opportunities and in the hope that it will facilitate one-on-one student/faculty interactions. Students participating in this program will receive an hourly pay of $17 per hour for up to 10 hours a week. Awards will be made on a one semester basis with renewal possible for the second semester. Students may not earn credit for the research project during the semester or year they are being paid as a research assistant. 

The "right-to-disconnect’’ is the notion that workers should be allowed to not work outside of normal work hours and not be punished or retaliated against for doing so. This could entail, for instance, not being expected to respond to emails from coworkers or your manager late at night or on the weekends. France enacted this policy in January 2017 and many European countries have since followed suit. California proposed such legislation earlier this year though it did not pass. The research project will investigate whether workers value the right-to-disconnect and how employers differently implement the right-to-disconnect when they are compelled to do so by policymakers. I am seeking a research assistant to join this early stage project. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting literature reviews related to the right-to-disconnect, investigating relevant datasets, and analyzing what the right-to-disconnect has looked like so far in countries where it has become law. – with Professor Jason Sockin