The California Supreme Court could soon weigh in on the enforceability of prospective waivers from state meal-break requirements, addressing an issue that divides the state's employment bar.... To ...

Several state and local minimum wage rates will soon increase, beginning on July 1, 2025. This article provides the state and major locality minimum wage increases for mid-2025 only, along with re...

A former Boeing quality manager, John Barnett, alleged that the 787 Dreamliner factory suffered from substandard parts and reckless practices, prioritizing speed over safety. Barnett, a vocal criti...

Last year, a former quality manager at Boeing warned that the factory that made the 787 Dreamliner—one of the company’s newer models of airplane—was plagued by shoddy work practices and poor overs...

Seyfarth Synopsis: A recent decision from the U.S. District Court in Kansas—Spears v. Thermo Fisher Scientific—ruled that a pay equity analysis conducted primarily for business purposes was not pr...

The ramping up of enforcement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) across California has been expected for some time now. We have hosted multiple webinars earlier this year with this expec...

Groups Tell 8th Circ. Minn. Misclassification Law Harms Them Trade groups urged the Eighth Circuit to overturn an order declining to block a Minnesota law from taking effect that slaps steep fines ...

The employees of a Lee's Summit, Missouri, office that helps U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services process benefit applications can vote on union representation, a National Labor Relations Boar...

As of June 1, enterprises in Quebec that employ between 25 and 49 employees are subject to new requirements under the Charter of the French Language, as reformed by Bill 96. Until now, only those ...

A bipartisan bill pending before Congress would make it illegal to retaliate against employees who speak up about AI-related risks. Senators from both sides of the aisle introduced the AI Whistleb...