Harris County leaders on Tuesday adopted a policy that will ban most county departments from asking about a job applicant's criminal history. County Attorney Christian Menefee — who proposed the ...

A Pennsylvania locality may tax its share of a whistleblower's $34.6 million payment from the federal government, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled, overturning a lower court's decision in a ca...

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Minimum-wage increases, animal protections, police accountability measures, tax cuts and tax increases all were reflected in new laws that took effect across the country as 2022 began. Some of th...

Given the rapidly spreading omicron variant, employers with as few as five employees are well advised to refresh themselves on their obligations under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) and it...

A new generation of tech savvy, social justice-focused and environmentally aware employee stakeholders are creating recruitment, retention and other employment challenges. Unlike their predecesso...

The United States Department of Labor headquarters in Washington, D.C. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly DOL said agreeing to be tracked online does not create any employment relationship Lower court disagre...

State Rep. Jon Jacobsen paced, microphone in hand, around a table of anti-mandate organizers, as he unveiled a proposal to prohibit Iowa businesses from requiring employees to be vaccinated or we...

Employers of thousands of San Francisco nannies, housekeepers, and other domestic workers will have to pay into a first-in-the-nation portable paid sick leave system under legislation the county ...

Employers with operations both large and small in California are all too familiar with California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”), the controversial statute that permits a single employe...