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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.

Two hotels in Anaheim, California have paid $59,142 in back wages and damages to 87 employees, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.

On the Border Mexican Grill has been sued for race harassment by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

As of September 6, 2018, all New York City employers must conspicuously post a sexual harassment prevention poster designed by the Commission on Human Rights in both English and Spanish and distribute an information sheet to individual employees.

The two largest private prison corporations in the U.S., which pay people held for immigration law violations a dollar a day to work, are being sued for violating laws against forced labor, sub-minimum wages, and unjust enrichment.

There has been an increase in lawsuits alleging that employers failed to pay employees properly, despite the use of timeclocks.

A Manhattan Appeals Court reversed the dismissal of a sexual harassment claim under the New York City Human Rights Law, leaving it to a jury to decide whether the employee was “treated less well than other employees because of her gender.”

Uber has reached a $10 million settlement agreement with 420 females and minority engineers in a discrimination lawsuit that alleged the company’s policies, patterns, and practices, resulted in female engineers receiving less compensation and in being promoted less frequently than their male counterparts.