California company must pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees The owners and operators of Che Garibaldi – operator of Taqueria Garibaldi – have been ordered to pay $140,000 in bac...

Where a plaintiff has alleged wrongful termination in violation of public policy, that count must be dismissed because the plaintiff’s allegation that the defendant employer “is trying to cover up ...

Some lawmakers want to include weight as a protected category for employment discrimination purposes. New York City and some states are moving "to outlaw weight discrimination at work," the Wall S...

The Beltway Buzz is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what's happening in Washington, D.C. could impact your business. Su Nomination i...

President Biden has made it his mission to wage what he momentously calls “the battle between democracy and autocracy.” But what to do when the ones he believes are undermining democracy are frien...

Where a truck driver was terminated soon after he revealed that he had collected and submitted evidence showing his company violating the law, and the company admitted that it terminated him in par...

With a death toll of more than 7,000 Californians in 2021, the opioid epidemic has become one of the state’s most vexing issues. The Legislature is considering several minor bills related to fenta...

Key takeaways: * A construction company originally hired a worker on an H-2B visa. He was paid overtime. Years later, when the company hired him back on an H-2A visa, he was not paid overtime. He’...

Accusations of a cover-up emerged during a hearing at the state Capitol on Monday as former employees with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections raised alarms about how the agency was handling co...

Accusations of a cover-up emerged during a hearing at the state Capitol on Monday as former employees with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections raised alarms about how the agency was handling co...