Following the trend to add workplace protections for independent contractors, the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance to increase pay transparency for the ever-growing gig workforce. […]

The Alabama Department of Labor recently published an emergency rule establishing a process for workers to appeal an employer’s denial of a COVID-19 vaccination exemption request. […]

The White House directed federal agencies to issue regulations by Jan. 15 requiring group health plans and insurers to cover or reimburse over-the-counter COVID-19 tests without […]

The Department of Labor in 2021 recovered more than $2.4 billion in direct payments to employer-sponsored benefits plans, participants and beneficiaries. Plan administrators that voluntarily report […]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently asked the parties to a case—as well as interested members of the public—for briefs addressing whether the board should […]

An employee’s sex discrimination and retaliation claims did not withstand her government employer’s nondiscriminatory, legitimate reasons for the disciplinary action.  Source: New feed 2

California’s Assembly Bill 5, which codified the ABC test for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors, does not violate the First Amendment by limiting employment […]

United Airlines’ COVID-19 vaccine requirement for its employees withstood another legal challenge, as a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stop […]

A Black female attorney could not be forced to arbitrate her workplace bias claims under an arbitration provision in the employer’s long-term cash bonus plan, a […]