New Jersey recently joined a growing number of states that have taken legislative efforts to significantly limit the enforceability of post-employment restrictive covenants, such as noncompete an...

The whistleblower in a $900 million settlement resolving claims that Cambridge-based Biogen paid kickbacks to physicians and other health care professionals will receive a $250 million share of th...

Rules governing police strip-searches of children and the vetting procedures for new officers will be tightened under a Labour government, Yvette Cooper has promised, as the party sought to attac...

NASHVILLE, TN – A Nashville resort and conference center has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor in which the employer will pay $630,722, in back wages and interest to res...

The biggest news in the world of protections for gig-economy workers came this month not from the National Labor Relations Board or the Department of Labor or the Equal Employment Opportunity Com...

ood morning, one and all. Damian here, filling in for Ed Silverman once more. Here as always is a smattering of items to get your day started. And do let us know if you hear anything interesting ...

A Q&A with animal trainer turned activist Phil Demers Phil Demers—widely known as the “the walrus whisperer”—is a former Marineland trainer famous for his close bond with a captive walrus nam...

Two in five Black employees are affected by ethnicity pay gaps at their organisations, a study has found. The research by Glassdoor, which looked at data from 2,000 employees in April this year, ...

Edward Snowden, the former contractor with the National Security Agency who made headlines when he leaked highly classified information in 2013, has been granted Russian citizenship under a decre...

Attorneys say new workplace guidance from the Cannabis Regulatory Committee has left employers confused on how to handle impairment on the job. (Amanda Brown for the New Jersey Monitor) The workp...