When California’s legislature enacted the Private Attorney General Act in 2004, its intent was to bolster the limited resources of the Department of Industrial Relations by empowering workers to p...

HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Starting this week, Michigan’s minimum wage is above $10 for the first time, part of a phased increase under state law. Pay could jump even higher come late Februar...

Employers sometimes adopt punch rounding policies for employee time keeping in circumstances where it is difficult to determine exactly when the employee starts and stops working, to simplify the c...

As a 2016 California law requiring agricultural employers to pay overtime continues to roll out in 2023, farmworkers and employers alike say the policy is costing them money. “Last year was one of ...

The German Supply Chain Duty of Care Act (Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz; the Act) entered into force on 1 January 2023 for the first companies with more than 3,000 employees in Germany. It o...

POINT: Lisa LaBriola No person who works 40 hours a week should need or even qualify for government support services. Unfortunately, that is our current reality. Of the millions of Americans who r...

As an historian and university professor, William E. Dodd had no experience with diplomacy and was unfamiliar with its linguistic codes. In the French embassy, the experienced diplomat André Franç...

The beginning of the new year is a good time to review your policies and practices to make sure they are up-to-date with the laws referenced in this Alert. In 2022, New York state and New York City...