A guard looks on near the wall of a prison unit in Huntsville, Texas January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Richard Carson (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday reluctantly ruled that a sex-base...

HOLYOKE — A former nurse manager at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging employees of the state-run home for ailing veterans barricaded a dementia patient in h...

A provision in the enacted state budget for fiscal year 2023 would have amended the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave Act (PFMLA) to provide employers and employees more flexibility to ...

Feature We spend the vast majority of our adult lives working. For many of us, work is the barometer of our self-worth. Truly meaningful work gives the sense that we are contributing to something...

The U.S. Department of Labor has once again cited one of the nation’s largest discount retailers for workplace safety violations after it imposed $1.2 million in penalties following an inspection...

The latest wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has barely been contained, yet employers are now being hit with employee inquiries related to monkeypox. As this virus spreads, states and localities are ...

Employees at a Eugene restaurant are getting back tens of thousands of dollars after a federal investigation found the owner violated labor laws. Investigators with the U.S. Department of Labor'...

Concept Construction also allowed 11-year-old child to operate dangerous equipment CLEVELAND, TN – The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $374,493 wages and liquidated damages for 62 construc...

In May, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., introduced the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act in Congress.[1] The act currently has 45 Dem...