Zara must face worker allegations of untimely pay after a federal judge in New York rejected the fashion retailer’s bid to use union contracts as a basis to dismiss the claim. Latrell Gillett—a Z...

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I have been worried for some time now about the threat of increasing cooperation between agencies, federal and state, when it comes to assessing independent contractor status. Well, my fear has r...

SEC, CFTC payouts to tipsters linked to concentrated groups of private lawyers TOPEKA — A two-year inquiry into federal whistleblower programs created to thwart corporate fraud led a University o...

A Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station department head won a new shot at stopping a former employee’s retaliation claim after the Fifth Circuit ruled he might be entitled to a qualified i...

$900 million settlement The whistleblower alleged that Biogen deliberately provided substantial monetary and non-monetary compensation through excessive consultant, speaker training and speaker p...

THE Coalition for Whistleblower Protection and Press Freedom (CWPPF) has called on the Federal Civil Service to protect a whistleblower, Richard Oghenerhoro. The coalition made the call in a stat...

Federal prosecutors acting on disclosures of a whistleblower moved to seize $700,000 in a civil asset forfeiture case alleging a former information technology employee defrauded Saint Francis Min...

In late July, a group of Heine Brothers’ Coffee workers gathered downtown to speak about their jobs. They weren’t there for a hiring event, or to promote the company. Instead, they criticized the...

Oregon state lawmakers allocated $6 million to community groups this year to help with what they’ve called a humanitarian crisis for workers in the state’s cannabis industry. In the basement of a...