On December 1, 2025, Algoma Steel confirmed that it will lay off approximately 1,000 employees effective March 23, 2026, as it permanently shuts down its blast furnace and coke-making operations a...

Fennemore Craig, a Phoenix-founded firm that has been expanding its footprint, has combined with Schmoyer Reinhard, a labor and employment firm based in San Antonio. The merger brings Fennemore’s ...

Starbucks has agreed pay more than $35m (26m) to thousands of workers in New York City, to settle the city's claims that the company denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily slashed their hour...

Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday. The...

MD Spine Solutions LLC, which does business as MD Labs Inc., defeated a whistleblower’s bid to reopen a False Claims Act suit alleging it billed Medicare for a medically unnecessary type of urinar...

Lawsuits challenging employers’ regular-rate-of-pay calculations under the Fair Labor Standards Act are likely to trend higher in the coming years, Samantha Rollins Murphy, partner at Faegre Drink...

Senior United Kingdom special forces leaders covered up potential war crimes in Afghanistan, a former senior officer has told a public inquiry. The former high-ranking officer alleged that two for...

The whistleblower said concerns about possible "war crimes" were first flagged to the director of special forces in early 2011 but not acted on. Senior UK special forces leaders covered up potentia...

Article contributed by Alexander Soric, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP What Are Opinion Letters? Opinion letters are formal, written guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) officia...

December 1, 2o25 FEMA Whistleblowers Reinstated FEMA retaliated against employees who signed a letter of dissent, the Katrina Declaration; after whistleblower complaints were filed, the reprisals ...