After a three-year investigation, the owner of the Crepevine restaurants, with locations in Berkeley and Oakland, was recently cited by the U.S. Department of Labor for violating federal overtime ...

NJDOL Releases County-by-County Data on 4th Anniversary of Expanded Powers to Issue Stop-Work Orders TRENTON – In the four years since Governor Murphy expanded the New Jersey Department of Labor a...

A federal court just refused to block the U.S. Department of Labor’s infamous 80/20 rule, which applies to employers that take the tip credit toward their minimum wage obligation under federal wage...

On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the pending whistleblower cases, United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValue and United States ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway. The Seventh Circu...

Update on July 13, 2023: The National Defense Authorization Act amendment introduced by Reps. Warren Davidson and Sara Jacobs has been revised. Under the revised language, the amendment would proh...

July 12 (UPI) -- Democratic lawmakers are calling on Rep. James Comer, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, to hand over information on Gal Luft -- the purported "whistleblower" in a GOP...

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The SEC awarded more than $9 million to a whistleblower whose information and assistance led to a successful enforcement action. After repeatedly internally reporting the concerns, the whistleblow...

Since its powers were expanded to halt work on job sites under certain circumstances in 2019, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has issued more than 110 stop-wor...

We report below on four case developments during June 2023 in the area of independent contractor misclassification: two of which are centered on Illinois. That state has one of the most stringent s...