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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 [...]

The Department of Labor has revised its guidance on unpaid internship programs at "for-profit" businesses, 'the authors of this article explain the new guidance and encourage businesses to review their [...]

What is the proper test for determining joint employment status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (1)? There has not been a straightforward answer to this question and two [...]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Division of Corporation Finance (Division) recently issued new interpretive guidance addressing significant issues under the pay ratio disclosure rule. The guidance [...]

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 [...]

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a federal rule that would freeze pay for many agricultural guest workers for the next two years, even as they remain essential personnel [...]

By Wayne D. Garris Jr., J.D. The employee received a greater annual salary than required, but his monthly pay fluctuated--sometimes below the required amount. Affirming a district court's grant of [...]

Byline: Peethaambaran Kunnathoor The country's pharmacy education regulator the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is gearing up to withdraw approvals of certain institutions which fail to comply with the council's [...]

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 [...]

The Small Business Administration and the Treasury Department have released a newEZ Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness Application, as required by the PPP Flexibility Act of 2020, for the SBA [...]

Summary: Mahmood Al-Araibi reviews the impact of force majeure and the pandemic on private sector wages in Bahrain. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the enactment of numerous laws and [...]

FILE: Cabinet's meeting on Monday April 8, 2019 CAIRO - 21 May 2020: The Egyptian Cabinet approved, on Wednesday, a draft law stipulating a deduction of 1 percent of the [...]

Byline: Duvva Pavan Kumar On March 24, 2020 the Government of India announced a twenty-one day nationwide lockdown to prevent and contain the spread of Covid-19, which lock down has [...]

Byline: Aishwarya National Law University, Delhi has contributed towards the Prime Minister's Relief Fund (PM Cares) set up for citizen's assistance in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. The teaching [...]

Byline: Nandita Vijay The Karnataka Registered Pharmacists Association (KRPA) has welcomed the recent Supreme Court judgment holding the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) as the sole authority to regulate pharmacy [...]

Oscar Munoz, CEO, and J. Scott Kirby, President, issued the following message to nearly 100,000 United Airlines employees: 'Today, Congress passed an emergency COVID-19 response bill that includes significant financial [...]

Just as many companies are sharpening their pencils to perform a 'dry run' CEO pay ratio calculation using 2016 pay data, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Corporate [...]

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 [...]

The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recently issued an Administrator's Interpretation that provides broader "joint employment" liability for employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Migrant [...]

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: Bar & Bench Shardul S Shroff, Pooja Ramchandani and Ulka Bhattacharyya Part One The enactment of the Code on Wages, 2019 ('Wage Code') is a long-awaited first step in [...]

Byline: Aditya AK Amidst a fair amount of opposition, the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill or the RTI Amendment Bill, 2019 was passed today in the Lok Sabha. The RTI [...]

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, [...]

The incredible growth in popularity of European football leagues has seen a dramatic change in the commercial profile of European football clubs. For example, the English Premier League is now [...]