Labor and Employment
Micro-Unions, supported by the NLRB’s Specialty Healthcare decision, may be here to stay, but with limits, with petitions more likely […]
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to amend the affirmative action reporting requirements for some federal contractors and subcontractors, establishing an annual “Equal Pay Report” that provides summary information on employee compensation by categories, including race, ethnicity and sex.
In a case with a Taiwanese employee of a German company, where none of the alleged activity occurred within a U.S. territory, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower protection does not apply.
An employer’s reimbursement obligations have been expanded in a recent California Court of Appeal ruling. The decision concerned a cell phone used to make business calls, but could be applied to many other “personal” items such as laptops, tablets, the Internet connections to use them, and even home land-lines phones.
Earlier this year, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick proposed legislation that would have made Massachusetts one of a very small number […]
The editors for the long-running reality show Survivor have been granted union recognition after a one-day strike. Reality television often […]
Macy’s has agreed to pay a $950,000 fine and pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of corporate criminal liability […]
After a New York Times article suggested Starbucks’ worker scheduling method made life unnecessarily difficult for some of the coffee […]
The proposed settlement in the Silicon Valley wage-fixing case has been rejected by a federal judge as inadequate, given plaintiffs’ […]
The California Labor Code has some flexibility when it comes to employee work schedules, with the “Alternative Workweek Schedule.” Generally […]
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