Half of the court cases that we report on below from last month involve legal proceedings related to the sports industry: golf caddies, tennis pros, and sports editors. Misclassification within the...

Employers are living in a world where business and workplace operations are increasingly becoming more technology driven and data intensive. From a workplace perspective, employers are more heavil...

AMHERST — Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and his partners are auctioning a non-fungible token, or NFT, Thursday. The money goes to the UMass Amherst Ellsberg Initiative for Peace an...

On January 10, 2023, the Illinois legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers (PLFAW) Act, making Illinois just the third state in the country (after Maine and Nevada) to require private emp...

Imagine this scenario: You pay an employee a substantial daily rate — which works out to more than $200,000 a year. Still, the employee claims they’re entitled to overtime pay because they were pa...

JPMorgan alleged that college financial-planning website Frank lied about its growth and users. The bank shut down the Frank college aid website on Thursday morning. Frank's founder Charlie Javic...

On January 9, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that four agricultural companies and their owner will pay $600,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act in Pay...

Parts Authority, Diligent Delivery Systems treated workers as independent contractors PHOENIX – A national auto parts distributor and an Arizona logistics firm that misclassified 1,398 drivers as i...

(Adds JPMorgan statement) Jan 12 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co on Thursday shut down its Frank website, a college financial planning platform it bought in 2021, after suing the startup's foun...