On May 27, 2022, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an order by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) denying a whistleblower award under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Co...

CHICAGO – To allow students in custody of the Illinois Department of Corrections the opportunity to continue to earn an education while serving their time, State Senator Mike Simmons passed a law...

Updated June 14 at 2:19 p.m. The ballot question involving the status and benefits for app-based drivers will not go before voters this fall and Attorney General Maura Healey was wrong to certify...

Pa. Home Care Co.

The San Francisco employment law attorneys at Blumenthal Nordrehaug Bhowmik De Blouw LLP, filed a class action complaint alleging that WeDriveU, Inc. violated the California Labor Code. The WeDri...

WeDriveU, Inc. allegedly violated the California Labor Code by failing to include the time employees spent submitting to mandatory testing as a part of minimum and overtime wages. SAN MATEO, Cali...

Does Federal Minimum Wage Still Matter?

The ruling ends a $17.8 million campaign by companies like Uber and Lyft that would have led to the classification of their drivers as independent contractors. A Massachusetts court ruled on Tues...

Alaska Airlines Asks 9th Circ.

On June 7, 2022, the Council of the District of Columbia passed the Cannabis Employment Protections Act of 2022 (the “Bill”). If signed into law by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, the Bill would prohib...