Amidst the workforce restructuring and widespread layoffs afflicting industries across the U.S., employers should remember that employees cannot volunteer their time and that being fair is as impor...

A judge indicated Monday he is poised to dismiss most of the causes of action in a lawsuit filed by a former employee of a vaporizer designer and manufacturer, who alleges he was wrongfully fired i...

On November 22, 2022, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed the Fair Work Week Ordinance (“FWWO”). Set to take effect in April 2023, the new law imposes significant requirements on retai...

The independent-contractor pendulum in home-based care could be swinging back in favor of pro-union policies. Providers should take note of potential changes coming down the pike. For instance, th...

Two ex-school board members said Oxford High School went against district policy by not sending Ethan Crumbley home after demonstrating concerning behavior. The whistleblowers claimed the distric...

Nevada voters passed a $12.00 per hour minimum wage to take effect July 1, 2024. The ballot initiative will eliminate Nevada’s unique two-tier minimum wage system that had differentiating wag...

Four students were killed in the Nov. 30, 2021, mass shooting. Two resigned Oxford, Michigan, school board members claim the district failed to implement its threat assessment playbook that they s...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Whistleblower Office’s Annual Report to Congress for the 2022 Fiscal Year details a record fiscal year for the agency’s highly successful whistleb...

One hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day workweek for all their staffers with no cut in pay. 100 companies in the UK are adopting a four-day workweek without cutting pay fo...

BOISE — A federal court and the department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges have ordered an Oakley stone quarry to pay $983,725 in back wages and liquidated damages after U.S. Department of L...