You must pay your employees the greater of your state's hourly minimum wage or the federal minimum wage. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 per hour, and legislation is pending in Congr...

In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, partners Evandro Gigante and Steve Hurd discuss key developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, including employer vaccination policies, the forthcoming ...

As soon as Frances Haugen landed in Europe, she was given the VIP treatment. She met senior officials in Paris, Berlin and London. She testified to lawmakers in Brussels. She rubbed shoulders wit...

On June 28, 2021, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted the Company’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss after an executive claimed he was discharged in vi...

A report from a purported "whistleblower" alleging that Pfizer falsified data and failed to promptly pursue reports of adverse events in its COVID-19 vaccine trial raised some eyebrows among vacc...

On October 28, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill dramatically expanding New York’s whistleblower statute, New York Labor Law § 740, which is scheduled to take effect on ...

Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a slew of new bills into law at the close of California’s legislative season. Below is a summary of the new employment laws, all of which take effect on Janu...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both the U.S. House and Senate sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a new review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (F...

On November 10, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) held a question and answer session on Twitter to discuss wildlife trafficking and whis...