I have been worried for some time now about the threat of increasing cooperation between agencies, federal and state, when it comes to assessing independent contractor status. Well, my fear has r...

SEC, CFTC payouts to tipsters linked to concentrated groups of private lawyers TOPEKA — A two-year inquiry into federal whistleblower programs created to thwart corporate fraud led a University o...

The chain restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill signed a $20 million settlement with New York City employees over allegations of labor law violations, Mayor Eric Adams announced Aug. 9. This is the l...

A Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station department head won a new shot at stopping a former employee’s retaliation claim after the Fifth Circuit ruled he might be entitled to a qualified i...

The National Labor Relations Board clarified its rerun election procedures in cases of uncontested election misconduct. Dynamic Concepts, 371 NLRB No. 117 (July 22, 2022). After losing an elect...

On April 22, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the Individual Freedom Act, also known as the Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees (WOKE) Act, with an effective date of July 1, ...

Rigging superintendent suffered back injury while bending down to stop oxygen bottles from rolling If an employee regularly working in California suffers a personal injury through an accident ari...

Printer-friendly Generally, the thought of a car accident brings to mind a victim and an at-fault driver. The at-fault driver, however, may not be the only cause of the accident. Instead, the a...

$900 million settlement The whistleblower alleged that Biogen deliberately provided substantial monetary and non-monetary compensation through excessive consultant, speaker training and speaker p...