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New York City has become the first city in the United States to set a minimum wage for ride-share drivers.

Walmart has recently been sued in two different lawsuits by former and current workers of the store for not paying proper overtime wages due to shaving time off of hours they actually worked and by misclassifying assistant managers as being exempt from overtime.

The U.S. Department of Labor recently retracted its guidance on the “80/20” rule which prevented employers from applying the tip credit when tipped employees spend more than 20 percent of their working time performing non-tipped work.

Lancaster's BBQ & Wings, a southern-style restaurant in North Carolina, is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for allegedly subjecting, Shana Knox, a black employee to discrimination in a racially hostile work environment at the company's Mooresville, N.C.

Millions of people around the United States are ready to cast their votes this coming Tuesday, November 6, in one of the most anticipated midterm elections of recent years. Many eligible voters will be scheduled to work on Election Day and certain states provide protections for employees to exercise their right to vote.

An Applebee’s franchise will pay $100,000 to a former hostess who identifies as transgender for harassment and gender discrimination, following a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Rosebud Restaurants will pay $160,000 to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

The U.S. Department of Labor recovered over $2.5 million in back wages for thousands of disaster recovery employees involved in Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts, following a series of investigations which revealed that both Lovin Contracting Co. Inc. and Coastal Staffing Services paid immigrant workers far below the required wages.

Ninth Circuit Court rules employers are not entitled to the tip credit when employees are engaged in non-tip related work for more than twenty percent of the workweek.

On October 10, 2018, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals will address the issue of whether an accepted Rule 68 offer of judgment in a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) case is subject to judicial review.