Under California law, all earned wages are the employee’s property, so employers may make deductions from employees’ wages only under certain circumstances. Here are five key […]

Oregon workplace labor and employment law poster chart. Source: New feed 2

The Supreme Court will decide how much deference courts need to give to agency interpretations of ambiguous regulations. If the high court decides that little deference […]

Legislation was published that proposes various amendments to the Sex Discrimination Ordinance, Disability Discrimination Ordinance, Family Status Discrimination Ordinance and the Race Discrimination Ordinance. Source: New […]

Ontario lawmakers will debate an omnibus bill in 2019 that would make significant changes to labor, employment and pension legislation. Some version of the bill will […]

The problem of death by overwork is so prevalent the Japanese have created a word for it: karoshi. This year Japan passed the “Work Style Reform […]

HR professionals were looking ahead to 2019 as early as spring of this year in anticipation of a proposed overtime rule. Our article discussing the proposed […]

Democratic Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom will be taking the reins of the California state government in January, and many employers are hoping that he will be more […]

A worker sued her former employer’s payroll provider asserting claims for failure to pay wages in a timely manner and provide accurate wage statements. The California […]