The following article first appeared in the Insights section of Littler Mendelson’s website. It is reposted here with permission. On Sept. 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an opinion...

Social care providers could have to update employment contracts, policies and underlying payroll systems to comply with the new pay deal envisaged for the adult social care sector in England, expe...

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The state of New Jersey recently recovered more than $19 million against the ridesharing service Lyft, which it accused of wrongly misclassifying more than 100,000 of its drivers as independent co...

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Key takeaways: Jeanne M. Marrazzo, MD, MPH, was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Marrazzo and another NIH scientist filed whistleblower complaints over their...

In Martinho v. Amazon, Inc., a federal court analyzed which of Amazon’s new hire activities were compensable under California law, ultimately finding that activities designed to verify employment e...

Three weeks after a leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired her, accord...