Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law Senate Bill 3146, amending the Illinois “One Day Rest in Seven” Act (ODRISA), on May 13, 2022. Those amendments add additional meal period, day of rest, and...

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Department of Labor will hold an online listening session for West Coast employees, employers and other stakeholders on June 3, 2022, on possible revisions to the regulat...

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Within the Labor & Employment Advice and Counseling Group at Lewis Brisbois, we talk up a storm. We talk to each other and we talk to our clients, every day, about all the new changes being i...

The German Ministry of Finance May 20 explained the 2022 wage tax program. The program includes: 1) a basic tax-free allowance of 10,347 euros (US$11,116); 2) an employee lump sum of 1,200 euros (...

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz City Council has agreed to a $250,000 out-of-court settlement with a former City Manager’s Office employee who claims she was fired in September after coming forward a...

A while back, the shebeen discussed the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a group of activists fighting a huge plastic plant proposed for a poverty-stricken, environmentally lethal slice of that state ca...

New York would expand its False Claims Act to allow whistleblower actions against taxpayers who failed to file returns under a bill the state Senate approved with safeguards designed to appease...

A trend has emerged where some celebrities, professional athletes, or other high net worth individuals are asking to be paid at least part of his or her salary in cryptocurrency. The practice has...