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The state of New Jersey recently recovered more than $19 million against the ridesharing service Lyft, which it accused of wrongly misclassifying more than 100,000 of its drivers as independent co...

In Perfection Bakeries Inc. v. Retail Wholesale & Dep't Store Int'l Union & Indus. Pension Fund, No. 23-12533, 147 F.4th 1314 (11th Cir. Aug. 1, 2025), the Eleventh Circuit affirmed that an...

Key takeaways: Jeanne M. Marrazzo, MD, MPH, was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Marrazzo and another NIH scientist filed whistleblower complaints over their...

In Martinho v. Amazon, Inc., a federal court analyzed which of Amazon’s new hire activities were compensable under California law, ultimately finding that activities designed to verify employment e...

Three weeks after a leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health filed a whistleblower complaint against the Trump administration, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired her, accord...

The owners of the Sinamon cafe chain in Perth have been penalised $31,000 for underpaying a young worker and failing to keep required employment records. Sinamon – which specialises in cinnamon bu...

On Tuesday September 30, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 288 (“AB 288”), which grants a California state agency the authority to enforce federal labor law in the absenc...

Photo: 123RF A former volunteer firefighter who spent a decade fighting for her complaint of sexual harassment to be taken seriously is calling for an independent body for whistleblowers. The Pub...