The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered Louisiana-based Metro Aviation to reinstate one of its former pilots following a federal whistleblower investigation. According to the department’s Occupa...

LOS ANGELES – A former correctional officer at the federal jail in downtown Los Angeles was sentenced to a prison term today for lying to investigators about his sexual activity with an inmate wh...

Janitorial workers were misclassified as independent contractors when they were in fact employees, a California federal court judge has ruled in a long-running dispute. When a trio of janitorial ...

An employee who settled her individual claims against her employer for alleged Labor Code violations was not precluded from subsequently bringing a Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) enforcemen...

Can a corporate officer be liable for an employer’s unpaid wages to an employee? Yes, a California appellate panel recently determined. Bridgeville Properties Inc. (BPI) owned property in unincor...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released updated guidance for employers on several COVID-19-related issues, including when employees can be required to undergo testing for COVI...

William Henck, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) lawyer who was forced out after making allegations of internal malfeasance, said the government will target middle-income Americans with new...

A coalition of civil society organisations including Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Human and Environmental Development Agenda, among others, on Monday urged the Min...

Fair Labor Standards Act by denying them time-and-a-half overtime compensation. Workers argued in a Friday memorandum that despite Baylor Scott & White Health's assertions that the workers we...

What is one of the key ways to promote good attendance? For many employers, it is by implementing a perfect attendance award bonus for employees who work for a month or a quarter without missing ...