​The relatively low unemployment rate is spurring once-reluctant employers to rethink their position on hiring candidates with criminal histories. A wide range of companies are opening […]

Gov. Kate Brown has signed into law a bill that remedies ambiguities in Oregon’s decades-old daily overtime law, which covers nonunion employees working in mills, factories […]

Federal law does not preempt the Connecticut medical marijuana statute’s prohibition on employers’ firing or refusing to hire qualified medical marijuana patients, even if they test […]

When a CEO is abruptly dismissed—whether because of misconduct, ineptitude or differences with a board of directors—how does the departure affect the employees who remain, and […]

An employee in Minnesota may not need to have been attempting to expose an employer’s suspected illegal conduct in order to bring a retaliation claim under […]

Combined bargaining units—consisting of temporary workers and regular staff of an employer that uses a staffing agency—are a challenging reality as a result of recent National […]

Set ground rules in advance for service or comfort animals in the workplace. That step will go a long way to making the accommodation a success. […]

Businesses are adjusting their performance reviews to increase employee engagement and improve productivity, and revising pay structures to create greater incentives for high performance. Source: New […]