Employment News
AG Healey Secures Nearly $3 Million in Penalties and Back Wages Within the Construction Industry in Fiscal Year 2022 - Mass.gov
BOSTON — As part of an ongoing initiative to combat wage theft in the construction industry, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today that her office issued 216 citations against 100 constru...
Read moreBuilder Wins New Shot at Overtime Claim in Livestock Pen Suit - Bloomberg Law
Signet Builders Inc. must do more to show a construction worker suing the company for overtime falls within an agricultural worker exemption to a federal wage-and-hour law, the Seventh Circuit sa...
Read moreAttorney may call retired Joliet police chief to testify at hearing in leaked video case - The Herald-News
A defense attorney said he plans to call a retired Joliet police chief to testify at a pretrial hearing in a case where his client – a retired sergeant – is charged with unlawfully accessing the ...
Read moreEngineer Accused By Tesla of Theft Wants to Go to Courts, Tesla Insists on Arbitration - autoevolution
Cristina Balan has been fighting for years to clear her name in courts. Tesla accused her of embezzlement and kickbacks but still insists they have to solve their dispute in arbitration. In court...
Read moreHAGENS BERMAN, NATIONAL TRIAL ATTORNEYS, Encourages Polished.com (POL; GOED) Investors with Losses to Contact Firm's Attorneys, Firm Investigating Possible Securities Law Violations - MarketWatch
Press Release The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. San Francisco, California, Aug 22, 2022 (Newsfile Corp via COMTEX) -- San Francisco, California--...
Read moreFederal court requires Pennsylvania home healthcare agency to pay $293K in back wages, damages to 75 workers denied overtime - US Department of Labor
SINKING SPRING, PA – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment requiring a Sinking Spring home healthcare agency and its operator– which intentionally misclassified workers as ...
Read moreChristians, It's Time To Make Wage Thieves Weep - Sojourners
In a recent round table discussion on labor legislation in California, Maria Yolanda Torres, a Subway worker from San Jose, Calif., spoke out about a situation where her boss was stealing her wa...
Read moreWhat Soaring Rent Prices Mean for Florida's Working Class - In These Times
Bobbie Hill-Ferdinando is a former school bus driver and mother of six who rents a three-bedroom house near St. Petersburg, Fla. She lives with her husband, who is disabled; an adult son, who liv...
Read moreCompetition Act amendments prohibit wage fixing, no-poach agreements - The Lawyer's Daily
Recent amendments to the Competition Act became law on June 23. One such amendment is of particular importance to employers as it concerns the treatment of employees. That is the amendment...
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