New York farmworkers and their advocates say that their employers are using loopholes to avoid paying overtime as required under a recent overhaul of state labor law. Three years ago, New York st...

Author(s): Rainey, Rebecca Source: Bloomberg Law Related Person(s): Summary The maneuver, while legal, dances around the intent of the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, which was pass...

Courts split on legality of arrangement Situation underscores need for reform, some say A law aimed at checking the executive branch’s ability to install temporary leaders at federal agencies w...

Answering industry calls for a 21st-century solution to a 21st-century problem, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers recently introduced a bill in Congress that would create a hybrid job class...

New whistleblower legislation will not protect many who have already made protected disclosures, a former prison guard turned whistleblower said. Noel McGree, who made a number of protected disc...

You can now listen to Insurance Journal articles! Maryland’s wage and hour law may extend beyond the time an employee spends at a prescribed workspace to include time spent getting to the work s...

The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a suit in federal court in Wichita against the owners of Mr. Cao’s restaurant in Hutchinson and Daimaru Steakhouse in Salina for alleged violations of the ...

In Kong v. Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd,the Court of Appeal (CA) has upheld an Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision that it is possible to separate conduct related to a protected disclos...

MARION, Illinois — Daniel Hale, dressed in a khaki uniform, his hair cut short and sporting a long, neatly groomed brown beard, is seated behind a plexiglass screen, speaking into a telephone rec...

Mounting backlogs in government processing of applications for humanitarian immigration programs are leaving thousands of foreign nationals without the ability to work to support themselves and t...