For the last five years, employers and workplace investigators nationwide have been forced to tiptoe around the subject of confidentiality during workplace investigations. You’d like to get everyone’s independent recollection of events, but you don’t want to trample on an …
In the last week, two major fast food employers were found to have violated child labor laws. First, Manna, Inc., a franchisee of Wendy’s and Fazoli’s restaurants, allowed 14- and 15-year old employees to work more hours than approved by …
Minimum wage ordinances were all the rage in the 2010s. With the federal minimum wage increasing at a snail’s pace, and state minimums not growing any faster, municipalities began taking the law into their own hands, and adopting minimum wage …
It was recently announced that after years of litigation, news company CNN has agreed to pay over 300 unionized camera operators a total of $76 million. The award was the result of the company terminating the contracts of the …
In 2017, the student library employees at the University of Chicago voted to organize and work under a collective bargaining agreement. The 200 workers sought higher wages and a more stable schedule, amongst other benefits, for the work they were …
American Labor Laws are generally not as progressive as many western European countries. For the most part, employers are not held criminally liable for corporate acts taken against employees. However, we spoke earlier in 2019 about how the state of …
As the year winds down, we hope you and your co-workers take some time away from work in order to spend time with your families (or just not be working) and enjoying the holidays. It’s been an incredible year at …
The Department of Labor recently issued a final rule for employers that makes it easier for employers to offer perks and benefits to their employees without fear of those benefits being considered part of an employee’s regular rate for purposes …
Not much happened at the beginning of the year in regard to interest arbitration, but during the last six months of the year, the Bureau of Mediation Services reported eight arbitrations involving six different jurisdictions and six different unions. And …
The Brady/Giglio cases may have happened over 50 years ago, but until recently, defense attorneys and prosecutors made little of the impact those decisions could have on criminal trials. However, because those decisions play such a vital role in the …
