The ANC Veterans League has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to give former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter whistleblower protection. The call comes after de Ruyter made explosive claims of criminali...

A California agricultural labor contractor will pay $460,498 in damages and penalties as part of a consent order announced by the US Department of Labor Wednesday. A DOL investigation found that A...

Utz Quality Foods is free of wage-and-hour allegations after a delivery worker left it out of an amended complaint, prompting a federal court to dismiss the snack food company from the suit. The de...

Regulatory and compliance Legislation to protect those reporting legal breaches to combat corruption transposes the EU's Whistleblowing Directive The Spanish legislation has a long tradition of co...

d3sign/Getty Images Long and unpredictable work hours leave many Americans with little time for anything but their jobs. The five-day workweek is so entrenched in American life that everything,...

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. ...