Employment News
City of Ormond, police bargaining unit clash over police pension ... - Palm Coast Observer and Ormond Beach Observer
The city stated in an email that the proposal presented by the union on wages would have cost the city around $2 million more to its payroll. In negotiations between the city government and the pol...
Read moreUS Department of Labor recovers $60K for restaurant employee ... - US Department of Labor
BRADENTON BEACH, FL – A federal investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $60,065 in back wages and liquidated damages for a former employee of a Bradenton Beach re...
Read more'Tipping culture is out of control': TikToker goes viral for claim that ... - MoneyWise
A woman on TikTok has added fuel to the fire around America’s tipping culture by claiming that a Ben & Jerry’s cashier got frustrated when she didn’t tip for a $2 ice cream cone. Don't miss R...
Read moreAppeals Court Sets New Standard in Federal Wage and Hour ... - Fisher Phillips
An appeals court just raised the bar for employees seeking to notify other potential plaintiffs about collective wage and hour claims under federal law. Employees may bring such claims under the Fa...
Read moreCalculating the high cost of doing business in B.C. - Business in Vancouver
New mandatory paid sick leave, minimum wage hikes, health care premiums shifted to employers, a new provincial holiday, ever-increasing carbon taxes – the cost of doing business in B.C. has balloo...
Read morePodcast: Placemaking and belonging on campus | MSUToday ... - MSUToday
Michigan State University Interim President Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D., elaborates on some of the topics she covers in her May 2023 Spartan Community Letter, which you can read by clicking on the co...
Read moreAmazon Contractor Fails to Block Wage Claim Class Arbitration - Bloomberg Law
B&L Delivery LLC waited too long to attempt to limit arbitration proceedings it initiated three years ago to drivers’ individual, not class, wage-and-hour claims. The delivery firm, which cont...
Read moreActivists Gear Up for ‘Terrifying’ Pride Month As Threats Increase, Brands Drop Out - Rolling Stone
When Susan Steinberg, the chairman of the Mahwah Pride Coalition in Mahwah, New Jersey, began organizing a Drag Queen Story Hour for Pride Month last year, she anticipated it would be well-attende...
Read morePTAB judge wins appeal in whistleblowing case raising explosive ... - IAM
The patent office has publicly removed management and the director from influencing PTAB judges’ decisions, yet hasn’t embraced accountability for “abuse” against Michael Fitzpatrick
Read moreFalse Claims
SA Ambassador Roelf Meyer dismisses ‘white genocide’ claims as false - SABC News
South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, Roelf Meyer, has rejected claims of a so-called “white genocide”, describing the narrative as false and driven by a small group seeking to influence...