Energy, Infrastructure, and Resources Alert Employers in the timber industry should take note of two new safety rules that take effect on 15 June 2022. These rules, which are intended to protect ...

Illinois has enacted amendments to the Child Bereavement Leave Act, expanding the law’s scope and renaming it the “Family Bereavement Leave Act” (FBLA). The amendments are effective January 1, 20...

Conducting investigations of disputed workplace events is a routine responsibility for HR leaders. Faced with disputed facts, employers can make reasonable fact determinations based on a diligent...

A Pennsylvania law firm stopped paying a paralegal for her overtime hours after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania federal court. Desiree Purvenas-Ha...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit recently affirmed a district court finding that the Massachusetts Wage Act did not apply to a person who mostly lived and worked in Florida. While ...

Police say commission found no basis for public inquiry into anonymous letters A year ago, New Democrat MLA Shannon Phillips received an anonymous "whistleblower" letter alleging someone from the...

A morgue photographer who enrolled in a county training program is not an employee under federal law and therefore can't claim minimum wage and overtime pay violations, an Eleventh Circuit panel...

The Texas Whistleblower Act (Act) was adopted “amidst a growing sense throughout the country that ‘mismanagement in the public sector’” was a growing public concern, and that “employees who discl...

Teaching in the smartphone age means students are never more than a few seconds away from the dreaded “fact check.” In Econ 101, I frequently receive questions about studies showing that the mini...

They Say It Is Putting Both ‘Life and Property’ at Risk, Contending It's the Result of 5 to 10 Years of Neglect and Lack of Accountability By Douglas D. Melegari Staff Writer MEDFORD—Mult...