The State of Rhode Island recently approved changes to multiple employment laws, including the Rhode Island Fair Employment Practices Act and the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act. Two key developm...

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides important protections for employees with serious health conditions, and notice to the employer is required in order to trigger those protections. B...

A Nova Scotia man is suing the province over claims his consulting contract with the Manitoba government wasn’t renewed because he filed a whistleblower complaint about its handling of a software p...

Host Tom Godar welcomes to the show Husch Blackwell partner Jon Anderson to help him lead a two-part conversation with Howard Bellman, a fixture in the world of dispute resolution for many decades ...

A plumbing company in Illinois violated federal labor law by threatening to fire workers and refusing to negotiate in good faith with their union, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled,... T...

Last week, President Donald Trump appointed two new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) members. These nominees are: Scott Mayer, who currently serves as the Chief Labor Counsel for Boeing Jame...

Automated message creates employment confusion after workplace injury claim The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently examined a general protections claim involving a fast food worker who argued she ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is awarding significantly fewer whistleblower claims than in the past, according to a new report from Bloomberg Law that noted the commission denied aw...

On July 7, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Apple Inc. v. NLRB (Case No. 24-60242) handed Apple a victory, declining to enforce the NLRB’s ruling that Apple had vi...

Toys “R” Us Canada is a specialty toy and baby products retailer headquartered in Concord, Ontario. It operates independently from its former U.S. parent company and continues to use the Toys “R” ...