Takeaway: While UtiliQuest's legal counsel didn't invent the pre-emption doctrine or pioneer its application in an employment case, it was definitely an outside-the-box strategy that paid off. An...

The US Supreme Court declined to weigh in on whether employers must pay for the medical marijuana costs of injured workers in states where cannabis is legalized. The justices’ decision Tuesday pu...

The Biden administration is telling businesses exactly how to create what it calls “good” jobs. The freedom to unionize, health insurance and workers’ compensation benefits, and equal opportuniti...

San Francisco: Frances Haugen, a whistleblower who exposed Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s illegal data activities, is raising up to $5 million to kick off...

The US Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will review whether a False Claims Act whistleblower’s suit alleging that Executive Health Resources Inc. defrauded Medicare by falsely designating patie...

The US Supreme Court Tuesday turned down a deaf woman’s request to reconsider if emotional distress damages are available for violations of federal disability discrimination laws. The top court i...

LOS ANGELES – A judge has given a former coroner’s office investigator the option of accepting a reduction of a jury’s award of $8.4 million in her whistleblower suit against Los Angeles County —...

Fisher Phillips, one of the country’s preeminent labor and employment law firms representing employers, is pleased to announce that Shéy Cobb has joined the firm as an associate in the Woodland H...

Every year incarcerated workers in the US produce at least $11 billion in goods and services, in exchange for pennies per hour in wages and a lack of basic protection against labour exploitation ...

A judge has given a former coroner’s office investigator the option of accepting a reduction of a jury’s award of $8.4 million in her whistleblower suit against Los Angeles County — in which she ...