The Ontario government made updates to unpaid Infectious Disease Emergency Leave (IDEL) and amended the Employment Standards Act, 2000, introducing the Ontario COVID-19 Worker Income Protection […]

President Job Biden will nominate David Weil to lead the U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, according to a recent White House announcement. Weil […]

Amazon is adjusting its drug-testing policy for U.S. field operations teams and will no longer test for marijuana except in limited circumstances. The online retail giant […]

An Uber driver who alleged wage violations under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) could not be forced into arbitration, a state appeals court ruled. […]

The U.K.’s Commission for Racial and Ethnicity Disparity recently recommended that all employers voluntarily report pay gaps among ethnic groups to identify and rectify disparities. Source: […]

States reported that 385,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending May 29, a decrease of 20,000 from the previous week’s revised level […]

Welcoming employees back to a physical workplace could enable more effective onboarding, training and collaboration. But recent research shows getting employees to return to the office […]

Motor carriers that use independent truck drivers to haul freight in California may need to adopt a new operating model and reclassify drivers as employees if […]

A jury awarded $6 million to an employee in a wrongful termination action, but a California appeals court lowered the award by $140,000, finding that the […]