Upheaval and social unrest followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968. Fifty-five years later, the anniversary of his death will be marked by a day of activism, as a remi...

This is the third post in our monthly series of CDF’s Labor & Employment Law Blog providing California employers with wage and hour compliance tips and best practices. As the health risks of th...

Labor law expert Terri Gerstein has one word to describe the current trends in child labor: “bizarre.” Recent investigations by The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Reuters revealed cases wher...

Illinois has enacted a new paid leave law, the Paid Leave for All Workers Act, providing for up to forty hours of paid leave for nearly all workers in the state. The law, which is scheduled to go ...

Since the adoption of Bill 59 on September 30, 2021, the Act respecting Occupational Health and Safety (the “Act”) provides, in section 51(16), that employers must “take the measures to ensure the...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently sued an employer that allegedly unlawfully denied remote work to someone at a heightened risk of severe complications if she had co...

Former and current tipped employees of the Cracker Barrel Old Time Country Store obtained conditional class certification and can proceed with their Fair Labor Standards Act suit. The four employee...

Two federal appeals judges have announced their decision to no longer hire law clerks from Stanford Law School, citing the school’s history of viewpoint discrimination. Campus Reform has covered t...

Wells Fargo Bank NA failed to shake off claims that it retaliated against an employee by reducing the accounts she handled after she complained to the CEO of race, sex, and age discrimination. Pla...

There’s a lot riding on the nascent offshore wind industry. Companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars. The Biden administration wants 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by the end o...