Gov. Kathy Hochul hasn’t yet signed a wage board’s recommendation to decrease the number of hours for farm workers to qualify for overtime to 40 per week. We have written several times that this ...

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Two top executives of the Housing Development Agency (HDA) are being investigated for corruption, collusion and interfering with supply chain management processes after whistleblowers blew the li...

In an effort to keep our readers abreast of recent developments and legal trends, we summarize below what is new in the law (both in legislation and in the cases) and provide a “heads up” regardi...

Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital is the first, and so far the only, hospital in the state to be cited by workplace safety regulators for COVID-19 violations. Hospital staff tipped off the stat...

In November 2021, Florida voters supported an initiative to raise the minimum hourly wage to $15. What Is Minimum Wage In Florida? The current hourly minimum wage rate is $10 per hour. The initia...

Juneau’s Bartlett Regional Hospital is the first, and so far the only, hospital in the state to be cited by workplace safety regulators for COVID-19 violations. Hospital staff tipped off the stat...

It is the mission of the Wage and Hour Division to provide public service through the fair, effective, and efficient administration of laws that protect the wages and fringe benefits of Michigan w...

Lawson v. PPG Architectural Finishes, Inc., 12 Cal. 5th 703 (2022) Summary: Labor Code section 1102.6, not McDonnell Douglas, provides the standard for evaluating whistleblower retaliation claims...

The California Supreme Court has clarified that state whistleblower retaliation claims should not be evaluated under the McDonnell Douglas test, but rather under the test adopted by the Californi...