A season of fierce protests in Europe has hit Budapest, the capital of Hungary and seat of government of Viktor Orban, a far-right nationalist president who has openly slammed the European Union as a model of liberal democratic politics.
Read moreRebounding from a drop in revenue the previous year, fisheries across the U.S. generated $212 billion in 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported.
Read moreWhen California was in the throes of a budget crisis 15 years ago, state legislators created the Private Attorneys General Act, or PAGA, to let employees wronged by their employers to sue on the state’s behalf while represented by private attorneys. The law has allowed more employment complaints to be brought to justice, but employers say attorneys looking to make a quick buck are cashing in on the state’s lack of oversight.
Read moreBy CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN, Associated Press TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Before dawn each morning, migrants slip away from a Tijuana shelter within
Read moreOfficial figures show that wages in Britain are rising at their fastest rate in a decade while employment has hit a record high.
Read moreThe Department of Labor said Friday that American employers added just 155,000 jobs in November while unemployment has held steady and average pay grew by just over 3 percent.
Read moreJapan is set to approve legislation that would officially open the door to foreign workers to do unskilled jobs and possibly eventually become citizens.
Read moreTesla Motors stiff workers for overtime and violates other labor laws, employees claim in a class action in Alameda County Court.
Read moreTwo German widows are entitled to allowances in lieu of paid annual leave that their husbands had accrued at work before their deaths, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.
Read moreIn a potentially far-reaching decision, South Korea’s Supreme Court ruled that a major Japanese steelmaker should compensate four South Koreans for forced labor during Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula before the end of World War II.
Read moreMining giant Asarco brought a federal complaint against eight unions, claiming it has the right to terminate medical and prescription drug benefits “to certain retired employees, who retired on or after January 1, 2007.”
Read moreA group of strippers argued Wednesday morning before a Sixth Circuit panel to undo the approval of a class-action settlement with their employers for wage violations.
Read moreA state court ought to decide if Grubhub must prove its delivery driver was an independent contractor and not an employee under a new game-changing state labor standard, a federal judge said Thursday.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals found Monday that the city of Brainerd violated labor rules when it laid off all full-time firefighters to dissolve their union amid collective bargaining.
Read moreCreating a circuit split, the Seventh Circuit ruled Friday that the National Labor Relations Act does not allow local municipalities to pass right-to-work laws.
Read moreA federal class action claims the Knights of Columbus, “a Catholic fraternal society that sells billions of dollars of insurance to Catholics across the nation,” misclassifies its field agents as independent contractors to cheat them of wages and benefits.
Read moreProspective job-seekers filed gender discrimination charges against Facebook and 10 other employers Tuesday, claiming the companies target their help wanted ads to male Facebook users and effectively shun women and nonbinary users from opportunities.
Read moreTriggering dissents from two judges, New York’s highest court sided Tuesday with a state agency that changed its policy to bar inspectors from seeking or holding elected office.
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