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As workplaces reopen, accountants and their clients and employers must be aware of the potential labor and employment law claims they may face related to the COVID-19 shutdown and the [...]

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that certainly applies to the number of bills filed in the Texas Legislature. More than 8,300 bills and resolutions have been filed [...]

Owning and operating a successful drycleaning business requires you to follow a myriad of employment laws. Failing to comply with these laws can result in an expensive lesson. The federal [...]

Event On June 30th the Council of Senior Public Management (CADP) elected to reduce the salaries of parliamentarians and government ministers by 25%, and those of the president, undersecretaries, and [...]

I. Introduction The Supreme Court of Canada's recent jurisprudence on freedom of association is groundbreaking for labour lawyers and constitutional lawyers. It vindicates Chief Justice Dickson and precludes governments from [...]

Introduction Early in 2015 the Supreme Court of Canada pronounced judgment in three cases where the constitutional protection of freedom of association in section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of [...]

Introduction On March 25, 1911, fire killed 146 garment workers, mostly young women, when the Triangle Shirtwaist factory burned. (1) They died of suffocation or from jumping from the eighth, [...]

Byline: Bernadette Starzee Already one of the most protective states of employees' rights in the country, New York became even more so around the turn of the new decade, with [...]

Byline: Gerald Schifman So many significant bills were passed in 2019 that Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared the session the Legislature's most productive in modern history. But some high-profile initiatives, such [...]

Byline: Gerald Schifman So many significant bills have been passed this year that Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared the session the Legislature's most productive in modern history. But some high-profile initiatives, [...]

Byline: Rochester Business Journal Staff The topic of CEO compensation and executive salaries has become a more prevalent concern among observers in recent years. The Wall Street Journal recently reported [...]

Byline: Brian Johnson Construction labor groups are alleging that workers on the $300 million Digi-Key expansion in Thief River Falls are being abused and cheated out of their rightful wages [...]

Byline: CityBusiness Guest Perspective On March 22, the Department of Labor published a new proposed rule that would make several changes to current overtime law. The proposed rule, which is [...]

Byline: Jim Dale and Melissa Healy On March 22, the Department of Labor ('DOL') published a new proposed rule that would make several changes to current overtime law. The proposed [...]

Byline: Bernadette Starzee The Paycheck Fairness Act passed the House of Representatives on March 27 and is headed to the Senate. The proposed law would strengthen the decades-old Equal Pay [...]

Byline: Rochester Business Journal Staff The smoke from Amazon's tires as it peeled out of New York had barely cleared when Albany's next bad-for-business measure started to pick up steam: [...]

Byline: David Winzelberg Long Island developers and business leaders are apoplectic over proposed state legislation that would require them to pay union wages on projects that receive any public funds, [...]

Hachette UK has announced a raft of new measures this week to bring more transparency to how pay is calculated, awarded and communicated at different levels of the company. The [...]

Emmanuel Macron has tried to buy off his critics. That is just the startWHAT SORT of leader surrenders to the crowd? Any French president of the modern era, you might [...]

Byline: DANIELLE WALKERThe asset management industry has largely embraced new laws in several cities and states that prohibit employers from inquiring about the salary history of job candidates.And even in [...]

The repeal of Michigan's prevailing-wage laws last week raises tricky questions. The laws required government contractors to pay their workers 'prevailing' wages, which functionally means the wages paid by union [...]

Byline: George Yacik Receiving Wide Coverage ... Director or panel?: Mick Mulvaney, in his first congressional testimony since being appointed acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said he [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton It's no secret that bank CEOs are paid handsomely. But how their compensation stacks up against workers further down the corporate ladder has been a mystery for [...]

PALO ALTO, Calif.--When Jeff Selzer began managing Palo Alto Bicycles 20 years ago, finding and retaining employees wasn't much of a problem. But in the past three years, Selzer has [...]

Byline: Virgil Dickson Hospitals are hopeful that a new interagency effort at HHS will make it easier for them to participate in value-based payment models without violating anti-kickback laws. During [...]