Ballot initiatives are direct democracy in action. A dozen states had initiatives affecting employment this year. If you’re in one of these states, then you’ll need to keep track of the changes, a...

Barton Scott, the department head of Career and Technical Education at Young Men’s Leadership Academy in Fort Worth, filed a whistleblower complaint against the school district in September with th...

Technically, no one is obligated to tip. But in reality, most servers rely on patrons’ generosity for the bulk of their incomes, as the federal minimum wage for tipped employees in the United State...

Rhode Island's minimum wage, set at $12.25 for 2022, will be increasing by about a dollar a year until 2025, when it will reach $15 an hour. The increase in the minimum wage is the result of legis...

The City Hall Conservative group is set to work with a whistleblowing organisation on their campaign against the mayor’s proposed ULEZ expansion. Sadiq Khan’s plan to expand the ultra low emissions...

Expanded Japanese whistleblowing rules are among the latest to come into effect as part of a broad trend of increasing regulatory requirements for incident reporting across the globe. Previously i...

Update: On Nov. 15, AP News officially declared that Amendment 1 in Illinois, the Workers’ Rights Amendment, passed and will be added to the state’s constitution. As companies like Starbucks and ...

Click here to listen to the audio Damien DeLaney and Jeff Kimmel, Co-Chairs of Akerman’s Wage and Hour Practice, discuss the Department of Labor’s proposed rule for determining if a worker is an in...

The economy may have been top of mind for voters across the country, but in Nebraska, Nevada and the District of Columbia, voters were able to directly impact people’s paychecks with measures to in...

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower rewards program has prompted over 50,000 tip-offs in the last decade that have led to public companies paying almost $5 billion in fines and p...