Minimum wage workers can expect a bigger paycheck in the new year. Missouri's minimum wage climbed to $11.15 per hour starting Saturday. It's an increase of 85 cents from the state minimum wage i...

Minimum wage workers can expect a bigger paycheck in the new year. Missouri's minimum wage climbed to $11.15 per hour starting Saturday. It's an increase of 85 cents from the state minimum wage i...

If business leaders assumed Covid would slow the pace of class action lawsuits or the size of settlements, they were wrong. In 2021, a new record was set for the amount of top class action settle...

The Government Institutions Pension Fund has adopted a philosophy of zero tolerance towards unlawful conduct or any form of dishonesty, fraud, theft and corruption in all its dealings with intern...

The market report provides a recent estimate and forecast for the global Whistleblowing Software market at the global, corporate, and regional levels. The report offers a detailed overview of glo...

As we close the book on 2021, we take a few moments to reflect on the past year's developments of the law on noncompete agreements ("NCAs"), offer a few predictions as to what we think 2022 may h...

The pastiche of new state laws taking effect as the New Year begins underscores how different we are — at least in the eyes of legislators — on matters small and large. In New York State, for exa...

The purpose of a 40-hour week and the requirement of time and a half overtime pay for that 41st hour and beyond is to compensate employees for the extra hardships of their longer labor. It’s been...

The purpose of a 40-hour week and the requirement of time and a half overtime pay for that 41st hour and beyond is to compensate employees for the extra hardships of their longer labor. It’s been...

On December 13, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a highly-anticipated opinion, recognizing the concept of joint employment under the Massachusetts Wage Act (“Wage Act”)...