In today’s news and commentary, Biden renominates his pick for head of the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division; Walmart announces wage hike; Sanders plans Starbucks hearings as incoming chairman of the S...

A California judge has ordered Farmers Insurance to pay almost $2.3 million in attorney’s fees to the lawyers of a successful whistleblower/former in-house attorney who claimed his role as a poten...

New York is one of the few U.S. states to enact specific workplace rules for hospitality industry employers. To that end, the New York State Department of Labor has for decades used regulations kn...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on September 5, 2022, signed into law AB 257, the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Act), which creates an unelected Fast Food Council to set m...

A voter initiative that would overturn a California law aimed at raising wages and improving working conditions for more than a half-million fast food workers has qualified for next year’s ballot,...

Air Force Specialist Reserve Forensic Doctor Flight Lieutenant Kirsty Wright with a sample for DNA testing. Photo: Corporal Colin Dadd Air Force Reservist Squadron Leader Kirsty Wright has been na...

Copyright 2023 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – The debate over New Mexico’s minimum wage is far from settled. Just weeks after the state’s minimum wage increased to $12 an hour under the final step...

California’s hourly workers saw their minimum wage increase to $15.50 an hour at the start of this year. Cosumnes River College students, employees and staff weighed in on the change. Aurora Marti...

Last summer, civil society rallied against the continued erosion of democratic space in Romania after proposals to protect whistleblowers were significantly weakened by the government of President ...

Californians next year will vote on whether to uphold a landmark law intended to give workers and unions more say in fast-food workplace standards, including raising the minimum wage to $22 an hour...