While many employers use the term "1099 employee" as a means to distinguish independent contractors from the company's W-2 employees, no such term exists from a legal standpoint. In fact, in add...

Morgan & Morgan filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Florida Middle District Court on behalf of former waste disposal driver Anthony Harris. The suit, which arises from an underlying decertified collec...

Claimed retaliation for suing over passenger incident Flight manifest his lawyer used also spurred payback A former JetBlue Airways Corp. flight attendant who said he was suspended and then fir...

COVID LIVE from the Seattle Times — Coronavirus daily news update, Feb. 2 — The latest count of COVID-19 cases in Washington totals 1,339,743 infections (14-day average of cases per day: 17,629)...

Law Exists in 8 States and Washington, D.C. In California and seven other states, and Washington, D.C., some hourly workers, by law, have to be compensated if they report to work only to have the...

In the 2021 Fiscal Year (FY), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) obtained more than $1.6 billion from qui tam whistleblower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act. According to a February 1 ...

This week, we’re focusing on what employers can expect from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in 2022. The Biden NLRB: What to Expect in 2022 The NLRB is headed in a new direction this ye...

On February 1, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released its False Claims Act (FCA) statistics for the 2021 fiscal year. According to the DOJ, in fiscal year 2021, the government paid out $23...

A district court dismissed claims of a whistleblower that Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare violated the False Claims Act by fully billing Medicare for anesthesia services provided by...