Employer contacted worker to confirm whether he abandoned his employment during leave The Fair Work Commission (FWC) recently dealt with an unfair dismissal application from a worker who was employ...

Maine’s minimum wage is set to increase from $14.65 to $15.10 per hour on January 1, 2026, following a 3.1% rise in the Northeast Region's cost-of-living index from August 2024 to August 2025. New...

fired for whistleblowing, telling the Employment Appeal Tribunal that a lower court had made findings "it could not have possibly reached. ". . . Law360 is on it, so you are, too. A Law360 subscrip...

New consultations on improving workers’ access to unions plus better protection and rights for pregnant women and new mothers have been launched in the UK Four new consultations, which form part o...

In this podcast recorded at our recent Corporate Labor and Employment Counsel Exclusive seminar, Christine Bestor Townsend (shareholder, Milwaukee/Chicago) and Tobias Schlueter (shareholder, Chica...

The NAZK proposes changing the legislation to automatically and more quickly pay rewards to corruption whistleblowers. Such steps were outlined during a conversation with Radio NV by the agency’s ...

What’s Happening at Hootsuite? Hootsuite is reportedly eliminating approximately 20% of its workforce as part of a restructuring. “We’re investing in our future: enabling better focus and executio...

Where a plaintiff employee entered into an agreement with the defendant company under which he would receive two retention bonus payments if he remained with the company until fixed dates and remai...