Effective Jan. 1, 2024, the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act will make a "knowing and willful" wage and hour violation punishable as a criminal felony. Should an employer or its agent engage in s...

Changes are coming to New York’s salary transparency in job advertisements following Governor Kathy Hochul’s signing of the Pay Transparency Law in late 2022. Codified at New York Labor Law Sectio...

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Benchmark Litigation has bestowed three Ward and Smith attorneys with the highly coveted title of "Labor and Employment Stars" in its 6th annual edition. Ken Gray, Will Oden, and Devon Williams ha...

Employment Law Alert: Recent SEC Fines for Failure to Provide ...

On Sept. 18, Governor Ned Lamont announced at a press conference that effective Jan. 1, 2024, the Connecticut minimum wage will be increased from $15.00 per hour to $15.69 per hour. State legislat...

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper signed a bill on Monday that requires age verification on pornographic websites. The new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, requires the websites to verify us...