Minimum wage rates are on the rise throughout the country and the federal contractor rate is no exception. On November 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor published the final regulations imple...

A recent study by the University of Washington has shown that Seattle’s $15 minimum wage “did little to offset widening inequality.” This conclusion matches the research done across the United St...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - You may think your belongings are safe in your closed garage, but that’s not always the case. A whistleblower says criminals are taking advantage of a flaw in the...

AP Recently, a former employee of Deutsche Bank hit the jackpot. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission awarded this publicly unnamed whistleblower almost $200 million for supplying “speci...

The union representing thousands of Fred Meyer and QFC workers in Oregon says a strike could start as soon as Friday. The threat of a strike looms as contract negotiations resume this week betwee...

Oregon has resisted joining its neighbors to the north and south in establishing overtime pay for farm workers, but one business is doing it on its own. With the new year, Willamette Valley Viney...

What did I have? It’s the question that starts the Clancy Brother’s song from which Four Green Fields gets its name. But according to a lawsuit filed last month in Hillsborough County court, the ...

On January 1, 2022, the minimum wage in Michigan will increase to $9.87 per hour. This is a 22-cent increase from the current rate of $9.65 per hour, and the first increase in Michigan since 2020...

and expanding overtime and minimum eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The White House said in its fall regulatory agenda released Friday that it plans in February to propose a new ru...

Kenneth Manning applied to work as a state correctional officer on his 20th birthday. Manning was accepted into the Oklahoma Department of Corrections training academy in March 2018. He started p...