Beginning this month, January 2015, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires employers to notify the government within 24 hours every time someone gets admitted to the hospital with an injury sustained at work. The government estimates that tens of...
A former Subway employee has filed a lawsuit in Washington D.C. against his former employer for unpaid overtime wages. Erwin Zambrano Moya claims that his employer created fictional workers and put some of his hours worked under these “other employees†to avoid...
On September 19, 2011, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Internal Revenue Service. The memorandum’s goal was to end businesses misclassifying employees as independent contractors. Misclassification of installers...
It is difficult to start the New Year without reflecting on the violent tragedies of the past year: the Newtown, Connecticut shooting; the Aurora, Colorado theater shootings; and the two separate shootings in Wisconsin last September. In fact, since 1982, our country...
For a long time now, courts have had a great affection for arbitration agreements. Courts will typically defer to an arbitration agreement and have even held that the question of whether an arbitration agreement governs a particular situation is itself subject to... 