KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 28 — There is no provision in the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Act 1991 that permits withdrawals under natural disasters, according to the EPF. In a statement, it informed tha...

Changes to Oregon employment laws taking effect next year will be keeping human resources professionals very busy this holiday season and into the new year in the Pacific Northwest. Extended Stat...

The CDC announced today that it is updating its quarantine and isolation guidance. For people with COVID-19, the isolation period was reduced from ten days to five days as long as the individual ...

South Dakota Department of Labor & Regulation 123 W. Missouri Ave. Pierre, SD 57501 State Minimum Wage to Increase Jan. 1 PIERRE, S.D. – The state minimum wage will increase from $9.45/hour t...

Welcome to Part 2 of the 2021 Year-End Edition of the State Law Round-Up, covering states in the second half of the alphabet. Part 1, covering the first part of the alphabet, can be found here. M...

Germany’s Green Party is a very long way from that day in January 1980 when 1,000 young idealists gathered in the country’s southwestern city of Karlsruhe. “It certainly was a colorful bunch of p...

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On April 22, 2021, the City Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, approved legislation – Bill No. 200625 – that would make it illegal for employers ...

U.S. Senate candidate Mike Durant confirmed again on Monday that he could be forced to terminate up to 20 percent of the employees at his company due to the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test...

On Monday, Shamara Boines filed a complaint in the Eastern District of Michigan against JARS Holdings, LLC and Raymond Abro for an alleged discriminatory work environment and retaliatory terminat...