Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - Legal Corner answers viewers’ civil legal questions. QUESTION: Can an employer take your vacation away and not pay you for it? ANSWER: Possibly. It depends on the employme...

fired from a job he took after leaving the company after a New York federal judge ruled that the pacts he signed still apply though the employment relationship is over. . . . Stay ahead of the curv...

There have been renewed calls this time from the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, an organisation called Whistle-blowers House and an academic, for a government agency to be set up to look after the pro...

The year-end provides an opportune time to review some of the notable developments in the world of labor and employment law from this past year – and to take a look ahead at changes coming in 2023,...

Today Netflix released a docuseries titled “Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street,” which is a stark reminder of the SEC’s failure to act on detailed and highly credible disclosures from Harry Markop...

On December 30, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower posted eight new Notices of Covered Actions (NoCAs). Each NoCA signifies that the agency is now accept...

On December 16, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an amendment to New York Labor Law Section 201, mandating that employers make notices required to be physically posted at a worksite und...

In a recent decision titled Buero v. Amazon.com Services, Inc., 370 Or. 502 (2022), the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that Oregon’s wage and hour law uses the same definition of “work time” as the fe...

On December 23, 2022, Congress included the Anti-Money Laundering Whistleblower Improvement Act as part of the Omnibus Budget President Biden has now signed into law. The Act includes drastic new ...

Employers often consider five key “work streams” at the initial planning stages of a reduction in force (RIF). 1. WARN Act and Mini-WARN Requirements The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining N...