South Dakota Department of Labor & Regulation 123 W. Missouri Ave. Pierre, SD 57501 State Minimum Wage to Increase Jan. 1 PIERRE, S.D. – The state minimum wage will increase from $9.45/hour t...

Welcome to Part 2 of the 2021 Year-End Edition of the State Law Round-Up, covering states in the second half of the alphabet. Part 1, covering the first part of the alphabet, can be found here. M...

Germany’s Green Party is a very long way from that day in January 1980 when 1,000 young idealists gathered in the country’s southwestern city of Karlsruhe. “It certainly was a colorful bunch of p...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico’s minimum wage is once again going up in the New Year. The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions states is alerting employers and workers that starting Satur...

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has found that a retaliation lawsuit can proceed against a health care organization that allegedly fired a doctor for engaging in protected whistleblowing act...

JUNEAU - A staff shortage at a city-owned ski area where workers are paid less than the Alaska minimum wage contributed to skiers having to wait an hour and a half in line for lift tickets and re...

Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom led research behind KC’s new right-to-counsel legislation A stack of boxes sitting in attorney Gina Chiala’s garage reminds her of how devastating evictions ...

As another COVID year comes to a close, there’s confusion among employers who are balancing vaccine requirements with labor shortages and trying to keep up with changes to national, state and loc...

After the 2020 legislative session was truncated by the coronavirus pandemic, this year turned into a busy one for Illinois lawmakers and Gov. J.B. Pritzker. From efforts to address the state’s p...

It’s called ‘peak season’ – the time of year when ten-hour days for some of the nation’s more than one million Amazon employees extend into eleven-hour shifts packed into a backbreaking blur of s...