Since the most recent downturn, a growing number of employers have violated wage and labor laws. Employers have increasingly denied workers benefits and mandatory overtime pay, according to workers’ advocates. Some have doctored time sheets and even failed...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has sent a warning to businesses: Conduct criminal background checks at your own risk. Companies that ask job applicants if they’ve been convicted of a felony or check criminal histories could expose themselves to...
Those smartphones and BlackBerrys that enable work anytime, anywhere are increasingly blurring the lines between work life and personal life introducing the sticky issue of when overtime is owed to employees. The always-connected worker and the pressures of the...
Before starting work, employees usually must sign employment contracts. These contracts signify a mutual understanding of salary or wages, job expectations, job titles, and other important issues between employers and employees. Both parties are expected to uphold the...
Under a Texas Supreme Court ruling delivered last Friday, a trucker fired for refusing to drive an unsafe vehicle — saying he feared for himself and other drivers — may have fared better in the courts had he followed his employer’s demand, driven the... 