Labor and Employment

Four-Day Work Week Strikes A Chord

The idea of a four-day workweek may be gaining some traction. It could be a recruitment tool for employers.

Pregnant workers must be treated with unique care, at the risk of landing employers in tricky legal territory. Faced with […]

Applicants must be asked to self-identify, and employers must come up with ratio of applicants to hires in the protected categories.

Carrying voluntary liability insurance as a protective measure would help companies avoid the difficult circumstance that Adair Grain, Inc. and […]

Two recent settlements for U.S. retailers found that the companies, in their diligence at authorizing employee working credentials, used methods […]

For employers, the most important provision in the Affordable Care Act will be the play-or-pay mandate. It requires employers with […]

Governor Rick Perry has signed a law that makes it more difficult to sue an employer for negligent hiring based […]

Two proposed OSHA rules limiting worker silica exposure could affect 2.2 million workers. Reduction in permissible exposure limit would vary […]

While offering employees unlimited vacation days is rising in popularity, some critics say that the lack of guidelines for time […]

Attention is once again focused on working conditions for interns, with the death in London…