Litigation Update On November 24, 2021, the Honorable Julie Miville-Dechêne, Senator, introduced a bill in the Senate to fight against the use of forced labor and child labor, in Canada and elsew...

Regulators hit JPMorgan Chase with $200 million in fines for violating federal record-keeping laws, including looking the other way while employees conducted business over WhatsApp and personal d...

Hours after little 9-year-old Ezra Blount became the youngest victim to die from injuries suffered at Travis Scott’s Astroworld, a manager representing promoters Live Nation and its Scoremore sub...

The National Labor Relations Board has certified the inaugural union of Starbucks employees at a store in Buffalo, N.Y., an agency spokeswoman said Friday. Starbucks will now be legally required ...

Employers typically aim to pay their employees on an hourly basis. However, some employers don't respect the hours that their employees work. The Wage and Hour Division notes that under the Fair ...

On November 17, 2021, the EEOC updated its technical guidance on COVID-19 and anti-discrimination with a new anti-retaliation section. The new section largely restates existing statutory anti-ret...

The saga of Rev. Nelson Rabell-González begins with a series of secrets. As reported in my first post on this story, Rev. Nelson Rabell-González (pronouns: he/him) was fired by Bishop Megan Rohre...

As 2021 comes to a close, employers throughout the country are responding to what commentators have called the “Great Resignation.” Many workers are experiencing exhaustion, work-related stress, ...

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has reimposed mask mandates in public indoor settings. Under existing Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (OSHSB) emergency temporary ...

Knowing that the EU Whistleblowing Directive was supposed to be transposed by the EU member states into national law by December 17, 2021 at the latest and that the majority of the EU member stat...