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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently reached a settlement with a federal contractor at Fort Belvoir military base regarding employee wages.

The judge noted that nothing in the FLSA indicates that Congress intended the U.S. Department of Labor to define the exemptions with respect to a minimum salary level only with respect to duties...

The Fifth Circuit recently joined four other circuits (the Second, Third, Seventh and Eleventh Circuits) in holding that the presumption of prudence applicable in employer stock fund cases is appropriately applied at the motion to dismiss stage of a litigation.

In Gearlds v. Entergy Servs., Inc., 2013 WL 610543 (5th Cir. Feb. 19, 2013), the Fifth Circuit held in light of CIGNA Corp. v. Amara that plaintiff pled a plausible claim for relief for losses.

The Fourth Circuit recently rejected fiduciary breach and equitable estoppel claims for life insurance coverage by the widow of a deceased employee.

According to reporting from the California Chamber of Commerce, several recently introduced bills have passed the California State Senate or Assembly and now move on to a vote in the second house.

Béatrice Pola discusses the legal framework of working on Sunday in an interview for the French national news channel France Info TV with journalist Dominique Verdeilhan. Interview aired October 22, 2018

The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development recently updated two of the posters that employers must conspicuously display in the workplace.

Last week, the New Jersey Supreme Court agreed to address whether the protection against marital status discrimination under the state’s Law Against Discrimination (LAD) serves to prevent an employer from discharging an employee "because of the anticipated effect of [the] employee’s imminent divorce on the workplace."

"Adjudication" includes the crimes of murder, arson, rape, kidnapping, torture, carjacking, aggravated mayhem and discharge of a firearm.

The Third Circuit affirmed dismissal of plaintiff Nicholas Danza’s claims that Fidelity breached its fiduciary duties and engaged in prohibited transactions by charging excessive service fees for reviewing and qualifying Domestic Relations Orders (DROs) for a 401(k) plan.

The statute of limitations for a claim of underpayment of long-term disability benefits does not accrue with each monthly benefit payment made.

As first reported by Law 360 reporter Kat Greene on December 5, 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration unveiled a new online complaint form to complement its telephone hotline.

Beginning January 1, 2018, the amount of paid family leave benefits increases from 55 percent of earnings to 60 or 70 percent of earnings...

Employees who are exempt from minimum wage and overtime requirements are not required to have the number of total hours worked tracked and logged on an itemized wage statement.

It is unlikely that President-elect Trump will support or take steps to increase burdens on businesses by limiting private arbitration.

The Fifth Circuit concluded that a plan's three-year contractual limitations period began to accrue when a beneficiary received a letter in 2008 that prominently displayed