The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that employers violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when they present...

The US District Court gave an employer a summary judgment in an overtime case, concluding that the dispatchers and controllers fell...

An employer who puts an arbitration agreement in an employee handbook cannot enforce it if it maintains the right to modify the handbook....

An employer failed to pay $8,952.15 in accrued vacation pay when it discharged an employee. It paid the accrued vacation pay three weeks...

In March 2022, Congress passed a law that precludes employers from requiring employees to arbitrate disputes related to sexual assault or...

Over the last two decades, over two-thirds of the states have passed laws authorizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes by...

A federal court of appeals has held that a forensic search of an employee’s work computer could constitute unlawful retaliation for an...

Antitrust in labor markets is a hot topic for government, business, and labor. The antitrust enforcement agencies, consistent with...

In 2018, Massachusetts became the first state to provide for garden leave payments – payments to employees forced to sit out employment...

Employees disciplined for wearing face masks bearing the phrase “Black Lives Matter” had their claims dismissed. The appeals court...

A former employee sued her former employer for trying to enforce a restrictive covenant preventing her from practicing her profession...

An injured employee was awarded double compensation since the employer intentionally failed to take adequate precautions in the face of a...

A jury awarded damages to a group of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Massachusetts Wage Act even though there...

Congress passed, and the President has signed into law a transformative bill that allows employees to avoid enforcement of pre-dispute...

An employer waited three weeks before paying a terminated employee for accrued vacation time. The lower court found that since the...

An employee claimed her employer’s policy of not compensating merchandisers for an off-the-clock time deprived them of wages earned. The...

An at-will employee fired when he filed a rebuttal letter for inclusion in his personnel file after being placed on a performance...

NY has an expanded whistleblower protection law that significantly boosts protections for private-sector employees claiming retaliation...

In the current environment and with the US Supreme Court knocking out the OSHA rule, employers are looking for creative ways to...

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has decided that a company that entered into a subcontract for regional direct sales services for its...