FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TRENTON – New Jersey’s statewide minimum wage will increase by $1.13 to $14.13 per hour for most employees, effective January 1, 2023. Annual increases in the minimum wage a...

On June 25, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went on a bill-signing spree, putting his swooping signature on 121 bills in one go. One of them, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA), al...

The University of California isn’t just our state’s third-largest employer. It awards hundreds of millions of dollars in service contracts to private companies that provide temporary or contingen...

Sgt. Carla Havard smiled wide and shook hands with attendees as live music played last month during the Taste of the South festival at the Civic Center in Denver. “Haven’t seen you in a while!” o...

Gig economy companies like Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc., and Grubhub Inc., have paid hundreds of millions to defend and settle claims over the past decade that they wrongly classified worker...

Maryland is poised to become the sixth state to enact protections against heat stress for outdoor workers in the face of federal inaction after the third hottest summer in 128 years. Twenty-two s...

For years, Kansas City workers and organizers have fought to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. The demand was front and center recently when workers at the Taco Bell fast-food resta...

For all the punishment COVID-19 has inflicted in New Mexico, the virus also is responsible for the state enacting one of the broadest paid sick leave laws in the country. “It’s almost completely ...

Indemnity clauses appear in nearly all commercial contracts including agreements between catering companies, hotels and restaurants and staffing agencies who provide workers for events. They are ...