Walmart didn’t violate the National Labor Relations Act when it disciplined or fired employees for breaking its attendance policy when they left work for nearly a […]
Chicago’s new predictable scheduling law, effective July 1, 2020, requires employers to notify low-income workers of changes to their schedules and applies to a wide variety […]
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is set to propose a number of reforms to the labor-certification process of the H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural […]
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation prohibiting federal agencies and federal contractors from asking about job applicants’ criminal history until after making a conditional offer […]
There are no longer male-only boards of directors among Standard & Poor’s Fortune 500 companies. Dallas-based Copart Inc. became the last of those companies to add […]
Salary-increase budgets for U.S. employers next year are projected to barely outpace this year’s rise, confirming that wage growth isn’t accelerating much despite record low unemployment. […]
Wellness programs are going digital, with online platforms that pull data from employees’ fitness trackers, and virtual fitness classes available on smartphone apps. But the technology […]
A Canadian employer may have many reasons to hesitate to hand over a worker’s personnel file to an employee and might wonder whether it can decline […]