Where Alexandria fire department battalion chiefs argued they were owed overtime under federal and state law, but they qualified as a highly compensated employee, or HCE, they were exempt from the ...

"whistleblowing" employees for disclosing information about suspected violations of law to (1) a person with authority over the employee, (2) another employee who has the authority to investigate, ...

Dee Dwyer, Jeremy Ives / DCist/WAMU, The Dojo Studios Patricia Pinckney and Tasha Jones lost their sons to gun violence on June 19. And in addition to grieving, they have had to spend much of the ...

relators' second effort at a False Claims Act suit against the municipal agencies, arguing the relators failed to identify a specific action that is fraudulent. . . . Stay ahead of the curve In the...

In the first half of 2023, city and state lawmakers continued to push for pay transparency, moved to secure pay rights for gig workers and approved novel expansions of paid leave... To view the ful...

Nevada’s lowest wage workers will see larger paychecks now that the state’s minimum wage increased Saturday. The bump to about $11.25 an hour is mandated by legislation approved in 2019, which dict...

A bill that substantially amends the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act (DTLSA) to impose expansive new duties on Illinois staffing agencies, and on all employers who rely on temporary a...

ITS Logistics’ proposed class action settlement with a truck driver was rejected for recovering too little from the wrongs he alleged. Keith Guthrie claimed that ITS underpaid him and other driver...

In 2018, while working with a business student at Christopher Newport University, I realized that some student interns were being required to sign noncompete agreements in order to secure an inter...

David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney tasked with investigating Hunter Biden's tax filings, denied retaliating against an IRS whistleblower, who claimed that the prosecutor was blocked from filing charges...