On June 15, 2016, Costa Rica's National Wages Council approved a 0.5% increase to the minimum wage for all private sector employees, except for domestic workers whose salaries will be increased by 2%.

On April 28, 2022, two decrees were published in the Official Gazette of Mexico amending several articles of the Federal Labor Law.

On November 21, 2017, Mexico's National Minimum Wage Commission ("CONASAMI" for its acronym in Spanish) approved two new increases to the minimum salary, effective December 1, 2017.

On December 1, 2023, the National Minimum Wage Commission ("CONASAMI" for its acronym in Spanish) agreed to increase the general minimum wage...

On July 26, 2022, the Governing Board of Mexico's Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration unanimously approved the General Guidelines for Union Democracy Procedures...

Puerto Rico (PR) OSHA has issued a public notice announcing revisions to the fines and penalties imposed on employers for noncompliance with adopted...

Javier Molina discusses the challenges of employers giving employees gifts for Christmas.

Many businesses in the UK are now starting to reopen their workplaces and are making their workplaces "COVID-19 secure" in order to do so.

Employees working remotely outside the UK during Covid-19 may create – and may already have created – expensive tax liabilities for themselves and their UK employers.

The short answer is that a lot has changed since March.

On September 30, 2020, Governor Gretchen Whitmer issued Executive Order 2020-191, maintaining previously enacted infection control protocols in long-term care facilities and protections for its residents and employees.

Mariela Rexach, Peter Susser and Stephan Swinkels discuss how the new workplace ground rules are affecting not just companies across the U.S. mainland, but also in Puerto Rico.

Don Dowling said global companies should slow down and adapt their DE&I initiatives to different countries and consider local demographics if they're serious about diversity.

On December 14, 2018, a Texas federal court declared the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.

A group of Democrat and Republican senators released the Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, the latest bipartisan effort for comprehensive immigration reform to fix the broken U.S. immigration system.

Michelle Barrett Falconer, Marko Mrkonich, Niloy Ray, Alice Wang, and Cristina Piechocki discuss the California Supreme Court's recent ruling that expands the definition of "employer" under...

In Kincaid v. Wells Fargo Securities LLC, et. al., U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul J. Cleary denied Plaintiff's Motion for an Adverse Inference Instruction, holding that the plaintiff failed to prove that any relevant evidence was destroyed or withheld.

In Tompkins v. Detroit Metropolitan Airport, et. al. [pdf], No. 10-1-413, U.S. Magistrate Judge R. Steven Whalen denied Defendant Northwest Airlines' Motion to Compel Plaintiff to Execute Facebook Authorizations, holding that the defendant failed to demonstrate the plaintiff's Facebook activity contained information relevant to the litigation.

In a recent case, U.S. Magistrate Judge Frank Maas denied the defendant's motion for sanctions, holding that although the plaintiffs' third-party consultant had a duty to preserve evidence, the defendant failed to demonstrate any resulting prejudice.

The plaintiffs await a decision from the United States Supreme Court on whether it will review the D.C. Circuit's decision.