Employment News
Some Disabled People Are Paid Below Minimum Wage. This Bill Would End That. - HuffPost
A group of lawmakers in Congress is vying to end subminimum wages for disabled people, a policy that affects about 122,000 individuals nationwide. The minimum wage for employees in the U.S. ranges ...
Read moreFederal Judge Nails Salon for Failing to Pay Overtime and Minimum ... - Law.com
A federal judge in Maryland has ordered nail salon owners to pay two employees nearly $70,000 in damages after finding violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Maryland Wage and Hour Law...
Read moreWhistleblower, Lawyer Should Be Sanctioned for Mishandling Proof - Bloomberg Law
An attorney should pay thousands of dollars in attorneys’ fees and the whistleblower lawsuit he’s litigating should be dismissed, according to a federal magistrate judge, who found that the plaint...
Read moreMaryland 529 whistleblower says he warned agency about negative impacts to parents' accounts - FOX 5 DC
A whistleblower and former longtime employee of Maryland 529, the state agency that provides college savings plans for families, tells FOX 5's Katie Barlow about the concerns he shared with leaders...
Read moreVanderbilt Health's Pay System Stiffs Employees, Nurse Says - Law360
Vanderbilt University Medical Center failed to pay patient-interfacing employees for the meal breaks they worked through and failed to adequately track their compensable work after their timekeepin...
Read moreMerchandiser Arbitration Exemption Needs New Look After Appeal - Bloomberg Law
Premium Retail Services Inc. will get a new look at whether its retail display merchandisers are transportation workers exempt from arbitration after the First Circuit determined more factfinding ...
Read moreCaesars Hit With Wage Suit Over Early Clock-Out Policy In Pa. - Law360
pay workers at a Pennsylvania casino for all the hours they worked, saying the casino used a time clock that penalized its casino floor employees for clocking out after working for more than eight ...
Read morePress Release: Government Accountability Project Responds to ... - Government Accountability Project
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Government Accountability Project Responds to Questionable Congressional Whistleblower Ethics in Joint Press Conference Washington, DC – On Thursday, March 2, 2023, shocking ...
Read moreUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical Center, DOJ settle whistleblower suit - Healthcare Finance News
Photo: Pichsakul Promrungsee EyeEm/Getty Images Dr. James Luketich, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh Physicians have settled with the United States government o...
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No evidence? No problem. Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized - The Seattle Times
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeanine Pirro this week found out there is a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality. The U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — a fie...