The Rochester contractor Pike Co. will pay $125,000 in penalties to settle an allegation that it skirted requirements for hiring minority- or women-owned businesses while renovating Rochester sc...

Criteria for minimum wage, overtime and child labor protections are written into the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the statute's standards sometimes crop up in other legal frameworks that draw on ...

The U.S. Department of Labor said El Charro restaurant operators failed to pay proper overtime wages and violated child labor guidelines. VIRGINIA — A report from the U.S. Department of Labor cl...

In Oostlander v Cervus Equipment Corporation, 2022 ABQB 200, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta awarded 24 months’ pay in lieu of reasonable notice to a long-term heavy duty mechanic, less mit...

For months, some employers who have required COVID-19 vaccines have gotten pushback or sued by employees opposing the policies. Now workers at one employer, Activision Blizzard, staged a walk-out...

A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found Detroit law firm McKeen & Associates P.C. violated overtime rules. In the investigation, the department recovered $112,000 in overtime back wag...

On March 11, 2022, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) proposed reverting the definition of “prevailing wage” under the Davis-Bacon Act to a definition used over 40 years ago. According to the DOL, t...

On April 4, 2022, in Reuter v. City of Methuen, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held that employers are strictly liable for treble damages for making late wage payments, even when ...

Eight current and former 911 dispatchers are suing the City of Evanston claiming it failed to provide them legally mandated overtime pay. The suit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chicago...

Hertz doesn’t seem to like its customers. Every year, the company files over 3,000 stolen vehicle reports, a figure that the company has tried to keep hidden from the public. The result of these ...