As of October 2, 2026, Costa Rica will assume new obligations and responsibilities to prevent and eliminate violence and harassment in the workplace, as well as to guarantee equality and non-discri...

A divided National Labor Relations Board abandoned its Biden-era precedent for assessing offensive employee conduct, concluding it was invalidated two years ago by a federal appeals court. The NLR...

Paid family leave mandates have been expanding across the country for a decade. In sharp contrast, the District of Columbia (D.C.) recently approved its fiscal year (FY) 2027 Budget Support Act (an...

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Where a jury found in favor of a Somerville police officer in an employment dispute, the judgment should be reversed insofar as it awarded the officer damages based on the mayor’s decision to place...

How WhatsApp evidence sank a company's volunteering defence over wage arrears Employment Relations Authority member Nicola Craig ruled on 14 September 2026 that a migrant father and son were owed m...

Workers were told to stay home, stopped getting paid, then fired retroactively The worker was told to stay home on pay. Then the pay stopped. Then, six weeks later, the email arrived: everyone was ...

A PhD candidate argued his scholarship was really a wage - the Full Court wasn't buying it A PhD candidate's push to have research students reclassified as university employees has hit a wall at th...

Employer couldn't name who received the alleged leak - and that gap proved fatal A ministerial driver accused of leaking confidential information that contributed to a NSW transport minister's resi...