The October edition of the Essentials marks the end of California’s legislative session. As a helpful summary for employers, we have outlined key provisions of the new California employment laws ...

Since Frances Haugen came forward as a Facebook whistleblower in early October, her name has been ubiquitous. She has shared her findings — that the tech giant allegedly put profits over user saf...

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...

By a 65% to 35% margin, on November 2, Tucson, Arizona, voters passed Proposition 206, officially known as the Tucson Minimum Wage Act, increasing the City’s minimum wage to $15.00 an hour by 202...

Aetna hired nurse Carol Wessner as a quality management consultant in Philadelphia in 2013 as the health insurer was expanding to cover almost 100,000 low-income Pennsylvania children under Medic...

In Insinga v. Commissioner of Internal Rev. Service, 9011-13W, 2021 WL 4983084 (U.S. Tax Ct. Oct. 27, 2021), the United States Tax Court recently tackled an issue of first impression: whether an ...

Prevailing wage law from 1931 plagued Recovery Act rollout Labor Department works to get buy-in from other agencies The newly passed infrastructure package’s goal of creating well-paying jobs ...

The SEC’s whistleblower program allows for potentially more significant bounties than the Treasury program’s flawed award structure, explains Ezra Bronstein, an attorney at Mehri & Skalet and...