The Pine Bluff Commercial recently hosted a segment of "The Newsroom," featuring prominent figures in the whistleblower community, Bob Abbott, a businessman and entrepreneur known for his support ...

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On July 4, 2025 President Trump signed into law The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act, which contains key employee benefit changes relating to fringe benefits, executive compensation and health and wel...

Hurricane season presents significant legal and operational challenges for North Carolina businesses. Whether it's a hurricane hammering your business, floodwaters threatening your property, hail ...

The California Labor Commissioner’s Office, the agency that enforces a wide range of the state’s labor laws, has awarded $8.55 million in grants to 16 local prosecutors to step up enforcement of l...

July 26, 2025 New York, NY Denise Rucker Krepp, a Coast Guard veteran, attorney, and former Chief Counsel of the U.S. Maritime Administration, has filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of the Navy...

What You Need to Know Law firms in California are actively hiring labor and employment attorneys to cope with rise in PAGA class-action cases. Demand for transactional attorneys also endures, par...

Employment, Safety Nominations Advance. This week, the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) advanced the nominations of Brittany Panuccio to serve on the U.S. Equa...

A recent decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals clarifies how courts should apply the highly compensated employee exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act. For the exemption to apply,...