Thanks to the Roosevelt Recession, in the spring of 1938 the New Deal’s “Keynesians” finally found themselves in the saddle, displacing the planners, reformers, and trust‐busters whose legislativ...

Local advocacy groups including the New Haven-based Unidad Latina en Acción rallied on the steps of New Haven’s City Hall on Wednesday in support of the federal whistleblower policy. The U.S. Dep...

Second of two on the FLSA. NOTE FROM ROBIN: In March, I began a series of very basic explanations of the federal laws that govern the workplace. The first installment covered discrimination in ge...

On June 28, Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed new tip protection legislation. The statute prohibits employers of tipped employees from retaining tips, creates new requirements for tip pools, ...

A growing number of employers are turning to artificial intelligence ("AI") tools to assist in recruiting and other employment decisions. According to Forbes, almost all Fortune 500 companies use...

On June 10, 2022, Illinois amended its Child Bereavement Leave Act (“CBLA”) to include unpaid leave for employees following an “unexpected lack of parenthood,” and deaths of other family members,...

Hundreds of city of Seattle employees working remotely may be ready to quit over proposed return-to-office rules that some think are less about productivity than about repopulating downtown’s fla...

The Fairfax County School Board has elected Rachna Sizemore Heizer (Member-at-Large) as chair and Tamara Derenak Kaufax (Franconia District Representative) as vice chair for a one-year term. The ...

South African legal experts are debating flexible work arrangements and whether employees have a right to them. The work-from-home debate is not unique to South Africa; workers across the globe a...

Education, Business, & Law The David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law explains judicial activism in a historical sense, and how justices today interpret...