Employment News
Average Canadian wages up 5.6 per cent in past year - Business in Vancouver
While the average Canadian hourly wage rose 5.6 per cent in the past year, the gap between higher- and lower-paid workers is growing thanks to a disproportionate number of higher paid workers gett...
Read moreEx-CEO at NS8 to serve 5 years in jail, forfeit $17.5M for fabricating revenue - Compliance Week
A former chief executive of NS8, a cyberfraud prevention company, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit $17.5 million for defrauding investors of more than $100 million, the...
Read moreAthens Orthopedic, Whistleblower Settle Medicare Kickback Suit - Bloomberg Law
Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA and its former chief operating officer have settled a whistleblower suit alleging that the company and other defendants violated the False Claims Act by submitting Medi...
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit Adopts Broad View of Whistleblower Retaliation Claim under the California Whistleblower Protection Act - California Employment Law Update
In the continuously evolving whistleblower retaliation standard we previously reported on earlier this year here and here, the Ninth Circuit has now weighed in on California Labor Code section 1102...
Read moreDOL Announces Settlement of Three Lawsuits Against Assisted Care Facilities Alleging Unpaid Overtime - JD Supra
Over the past several years, the federal Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division has focused enforcement efforts on assisted care and related facilities. DOL alleges that some of these ...
Read moreCase: Wage & Hour/Worker Misclassification (ED Tex.) - Bloomberg Law
Tyler Technologies, Inc.'s motion for summary Judgment is granted in part and denied in part on the wage claims of a former employee—who held both senior project manager and implementation analyst ...
Read morePrivacy Tip #348 – Considerations for Electronic Monitoring of Employees - JD Supra
I had a really interesting discussion with my students during class this week about employers’ use of electronic means to monitor employees. When I first started teaching Privacy Law at Roger Willi...
Read moreFalse Claims
NLA Salary Claims False – DG Mohammed Abdul-Salam Clarifies | #FaceToFace - Modern Ghana
1992 Constitution: Indemnity clause, Ex-gratia, etc... Do we still need these?