The US Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division will deploy a strike force of investigators to the Mississippi Delta later this month for a special enforcement operation aimed at violators of th...

Raytheon won a disability discrimination and retaliation case brought in a federal Kentucky court by a former employee who took a leave of absence for alcoholism treatment. In throwing out the su...

Nearly 2,300 workers included in settlement class Buchsbaum & Haag gets $450,000 in attorneys’ fees Solar Turbines Inc. and workers who say it stiffed them on pay won final approval for a $...

by Carolyn Bick A year ago today, the Emerald published its first story on a whistleblower complaint filed against the Office of Inspector General (OIG). That complaint contained serious allegati...

Genesis Building Services and Eat My Dust agreed to a $600,000 wage settlement to resolve claims they violated labor laws. The settlement benefits all hourly, non-exempt and non-collectively barg...

Dr. Don Weiss isn’t taking his reassignment lying down. As Gothamist reported two weeks ago, the senior epidemiologist was removed from his post as director of surveillance at the New York City h...

Now that it’s gotten much safer to do so, dining out can be one of the most pleasurable experiences, removing the burden of cooking and immersing yourself in a delightful environment. It’s a luxu...

Lululemon Athletica Inc. employees will vote this month on unionizing a store in Washington, D.C., testing the strength of an organizing wave that’s been sweeping through previously union-free US...

PITTSBURGH – In return for providing essential homecare for people in need, 218 workers employed by a Pittsburgh-based home care agency expected their employer to pay them all their hard-earned w...

For much of the last decade, a legal and regulatory storm at the state and federal level has surrounded classification of workers as “independent contractors” or “employees.” The dramatic growth ...