As economists and news outlets inform us daily, a recession is coming – with some asserting it is already here. For many companies this signals a major change to what has been a very tight labor ...

Takeaway: While this case dealt specifically with a railroad employer, the 8th Circuit's reference to the Norris-LaGuardia provision regarding a party's failure to make "every reasonable effort" ...

While employers across the food sector are starting to establish whistleblowing channels, the industry appears to be slow off the mark in the face of a number of food production scandals, not lea...

Case: Individual Employment Rights/First Amendment (E.D. Ky.

The Lowndes County Board of Supervisors is giving its employees a financial shot in the arm, thanks to the American Rescue Plan Act. Supervisors voted Monday to give county employees premium pay ...

On August 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that the operator of restaurant franchise locations in Mississippi who made employees pay for their safety training and background...

The Court of Appeal in the recent decision of Kong v Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd has upheld a decision that a whistleblower who was dismissed after she made a “protected disclosure” was not ...

A whistleblower reported Medicare fraud happening at an Indiana-based senior citizen residential healthcare company, and the Department of Justice settled with the company for $5.5 million. The w...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) revised the Whistleblower Investigations Manual for the agency in the “first complete overhaul since 2011...

GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, P.A., filed a Complaint (Cosmann v. Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.) to hold national consulting firm Booz Allen Ha...