Workers who say Mercy Health and two related entities failed to provide proper meal breaks may conditionally pursue their wage-and-hour claims as a collective, a federal judge in Missouri said. Th...

If an employer pays a woman less than it pays males, there isn’t always a legal violation. The key question: Are the woman and the higher-paid males essentially doing the same work? Sometimes, a p...

SPRINGFIELD – Many Illinois residents will get a bump in pay Sunday when the state's minimum wage rises a dollar to a minimum of $13 an hour. State officials are advising workers in Illinois to re...

Updated at 4:51 p.m. Back in 2018, as supporters of a $15-an-hour state minimum wage prepared to place the measure before voters as a ballot question, Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill known as the...

This article features Government Accountability Project’s Senior Counsel, Dana Gold, and was originally published here. Corporate America thinks about whistleblowers all wrong. At most companies to...

A whistleblower formerly employed by biomass giant Enviva said the company's claims about how it produces its products are "a joke." One of the world’s biggest renewable energy players may be misle...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - New laws go into effect Jan. 1, 2023 in Washington state with significant changes including a minimum wage increase, rideshare worker protections and wage transparency on job post...

On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed and published a Memorandum of Understanding for Employment Tax Referrals (the “MOU”). The MOU...

Legislation (A.1431/S.1120) Increases Award Amounts Given to Individuals Who Report Fraud Legislation (S.4954-C/A.9193-B) Increases Penalties for Fraud that Occurs during a Declared State of Emerge...