There's a growing momentum to establish federal standards to prevent heat illness in the workplace, as temperatures hit record levels in many parts of the U.S. and Europe. President Joe Biden outl...

Social media company X—formerly Twitter—is facing two federal class-action lawsuits claiming it failed to pay severance benefits after Elon Musk took over as CEO and implemented mass layoffs. The ...

A federal judge Wednesday evening upheld the so-called "temp worker bill of rights" despite a suit aiming to strike it down, just over a week before several major provisions of the bill were set t...

The NJ DOL has issued proposed rules to implement certain sections of the Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights. The proposed rules clarify when the law applies to out-of-state work assignments; how...

Takeaway: An employee who was fired when he refused to continue working after city inspectors found numerous safety violations at the worksite was entitled to more than $7 million in damages for wh...

[co-author: Patrick DeSabato]* Q: Does the federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) require workplaces to change their accommodation and leave practices in a significant way? A: Potentially. T...

You have a full-time job, but you don’t actually work 40 hours per week. To be honest, you have a lot of extra time on your hands, so you’re thinking about taking on another full-time job. This mi...

You have a full-time job, but you don’t actually work 40 hours per week. To be honest, you have a lot of extra time on your hands, so you’re thinking about taking on another full-time job. This mi...

HONOLULU – A federal court has required the owners and operators of two residential care facilities in Kaneohe to pay $287,279 in wages and liquidated damages to 23 caregivers after a U.S. Departme...

Labor costs for hired workers account for 12 percent of production expenses for all farms, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture. As of April 2023, farms and ranches employed 651,000 workers,...