A dental hygienist and dental assistant have won $15,706 in back wages to be paid by the North Texas dentists who fired them for raising concerns about COVID-19 safety measures in spring 2020 follo...

Almost every single Georgia Democrat in the state Senate is backing a bill that would raise the state minimum wage to $15 and build in annual increases to combat Georgia’s rising cost of living. B...

You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! More than 180 workers at a North Carolina company will receive about $1,000 each in overtime pay after the U.S. Department of Labor found that th...

Recently, Illinois became the third state to pass a mandatory paid time off law called the “Paid Leave for All Workers Act” (the “Act”), which grants employees a minimum of 40 hours of paid time o...

The franchisee of six McDonald's restaurants in Erie County and one in Warren has paid $92,107 in civil penalties for violating child-labor laws over two years, the U.S. Department of Labor said. ...

More than three years after 15 laundry workers first lodged their complaint with New York Attorney General Letitia James, the employees—all Latina immigrant women—finally received the first checks ...

On February 21, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a whistleblower award, the first of the 2023 Fiscal Year. The award was granted to a whistleblower who voluntarily provi...

By Greg Ogle, The annual Safecall Whistleblowing Benchmark Report is due out in March 2023. Each year this report produces some interesting research insights, and this year is no different. The re...

Washington — OSHA is testing a “streamlined” process of filtering complaints via a yearlong Whistleblower Protection Program pilot program. OSHA enforces whistleblower protections under more than ...

This story was originally published on Civil Eats. InIn early February, around 2,000 people called in to a hearing on Washington farmworkers’ right to overtime pay. The conversation was tense as fa...