The DOL has limited the recovery of liquidated damages in FLSA cases to lawsuits only, removing them from administrative investigations or settlements. While this may seem beneficial for employers, it ...

American workers have such few protections that many must work forced overtime well above 40 hours per week. Where's the work ...

This article explores the labor demands of the Voder, the electrical speech synthesis machine developed by Bell Labs for AT&T’s 1939 New York World’s Fair exhibit. The article situates the Voder ...

A Kansas federal district court rejected a joint motion to approve the settlement between Mercury Management and a group of technicians regarding overtime wage claims under the Fair Labor Standards ...

Do employer rules that require employees to repay certain employer expenses upon their resignation violate human trafficking laws? The federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act might apply to certain ...

A. Jonathan Trafimow and Julia Gavrilov, of Moritt Hock & Hamroff, address questions surrounding settlements in employment actions, particularly after 'Cheeks v. Freeport Pancake House', in which ...

Experts say the FAIR Act, which awaits the governor’s signature, is the first major reform to come to Illinois’ public defense system since 1949, 14 years before the the right to court ...