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Algoma Steel Layoffs in Canada: Employee Rights, Severance Pay, and What You Need to Know - Samfiru Tumarkin LLP
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...
Read moreFennemore Craig Merges With Texas Labor and Employment Firm - Bloomberg Law News
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 ...
Read moreStarbucks to pay NYC workers $35 million in labour law settlement - BBC
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...
Read moreStarbucks to pay about $35M to NYC workers to settle claims it violated labor law - NBC 4 New York
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...
Read moreMD Spine Stops Whistleblower’s Bid to Reinstate Fraud Lawsuit - Bloomberg Law News
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...
Read more‘Disturbing’ FLSA trends include uptick in regular-rate litigation - HR Dive
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...
Read moreUK special forces chiefs covered up Afghanistan war crimes, inquiry told - Al Jazeera
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...
Read moreUK special forces leaders covered up Afghan war crimes: whistleblower - The Hindu
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...
Read moreU.S. Dept of Labor Issues Opinion Letters Clarifying “Horizontal” Joint Employment and Employees Who May Participate in a Tip Pool - totalfood.com
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...
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346 People Died In Boeing 737 MAX Crashes — But Shareholders May Get Paid The Most - View from the Wing
Two years ago I wrote that the real victims in the Boeing 737 MAX crashes weren’t the passengers or crew, they were the investors. Not really, but that seemed to be what was going to happen in the ...