CLick here to listen to the audio Damien DeLaney and Jeff Kimmel, Co-Chairs of Akerman’s Wage and Hour Practice, discuss new laws and court cases that may have an impact on what employers need to ...

Committee Chairman, Rep. Mark Gbillah, emphasises the need to give special protection to whistleblowers in the country in line with the current administration’s policy of fighting corruption. Commi...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently ruled that Wisconsin wage and hours laws concerning the compensability of meal periods empower employers to require that such breaks be u...

Robert Holland – a solicitor advocate (civil) – has joined as a partner and will be based in the firm’s flagship legal office in Edinburgh, serving as its head of employment law. He has been poache...

This year has started with a bang for Illinois employers. Days into 2023, the legislature passed the Paid Leave for All Workers Act (the “Act”), which would require Illinois employers to provide m...

Feb. 2—RAYMONDVILLE — After five years of court wranglings, a former Raymondville school district truancy officer's lawsuit is heading back into the wheels of justice. Last week, a Willacy County 1...

On January 26, less than a month before a February 19 increase in the minimum wage was set to take effect for tens of thousands of Michigan workers, the Michigan Appeals Court blocked the increase ...

By Caleb Drickey (February 2, 2023, 10:15 PM EST) -- A Hyatt hotel in Long Beach, California, violated state and municipal protections for cleaning staff by overworking them, underpaying them and d...

The new year is off to a fast start, and companies are already looking ahead in anticipation of the legal developments and updates that may impact their businesses. Join McDermott’s Labor & Emp...

In the traumatic and epoch-defining events of the last three years, some of which include raging bushfires and floods, a pandemic, global conflicts, and the recent women-led revolution in Iran, th...