A federal judge ordered American Made Bags LLC in Akron and its owner to pay a total of $189,756 – $94,893 in back wages and an equal amount in damages – to 48 employees after two separate feder...

Last year about this time, we wrote of how far we had come collectively in the world of employee benefits roughly one year after the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic. We reveled at how we kept on k...

After passage by the Senate in December, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Better Cybercrime Metrics Act in a 377-48 vote last week. As the latest version of the bill states, “The Unit...

The Department of Justice announced today that it has published guidance on how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects people with opioid use disorder (OUD) who are in treatment or re...

By Jeannie O'Sullivan (April 5, 2022, 2:25 PM EDT) -- A New Jersey federal judge granted an Amazon affiliate's bid to resolve a driver's wage lawsuit out of court, ruling that the worker's employ...

A recent decision by the First District Court of Appeal reversing workers’ compensation coverage for injuries sustained by an employee while driving a company vehicle for an HVAC company illustra...

Gov. J.B Pritzker signed into law a bill that gives paid sick leave to all fully vaccinated Illinois school staff who have to take time off for COVID-related reasons and provides wage protection ...

On March 24, 2022, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed "Silenced No More," E.S.H.B. 1795, a sweeping bill that applies to employment, settlement, and severance agreements and prohibits attendan...

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