In 2025, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed three new bills into law to amend the Illinois Prevailing Wage Act (the Act): HB 1189, SB 1344, and HB 2488. These amendments, which became effectiv...

The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office is facing two lawsuits accusing it of violating whistleblower protection laws. Both lawsuits filed last week were brought by former employees from the departme...

Southwest Airlines told a Texas federal judge that a pilot union's lawsuit can't advance under the Railway Labor Act, saying it had the right to discipline a pilot who fell short... To view the ful...

Lawsuits against Washtenaw Count Sheriff's Office of firing whistleblowers The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office is facing two lawsuits accusing it of violating whistleblower protection laws. Live...

Shifting deadlines, a withdrawn request, then a mailed termination notice he says blindsided him A disabled Army veteran says CarMax fired him while his leave paperwork was still moving through the...

Actors dream of an Oscar, chefs of a Michelin star, and journalists of a Pulitzer. But there is one fantasy shared across all professions: telling your boss exactly what you think of them. Scott P...

Actors dream of an Oscar, chefs of a Michelin star, and journalists of a Pulitzer. But there is one fantasy shared across all professions: telling your boss exactly what you think of them. Scott P...

A three-second video, a union arbitrator, and a public-policy argument that fell flat on appeal A federal appeals court has told a Chicago hotel it cannot fire a worker over a pocket knife when its...

One lawyer got the memo, the other didn't - and the employer didn't have to fix it A tenured Alabama school administrator lost her bid to overturn her firing after her own attorneys failed to coord...

He warned regulators in 2011 - two years before the scandal hit the headlines. On June 5, a federal appeals court told an early currency-market tipster he gets no share of a $1.475 billion bank se...