Trader Joe’s unlawfully prohibited workers at one of its stores from wearing union insignia on their uniforms ahead of a 2022 vote by employees over whether to formally organize as members of Trader Joe’s United, a National Labor Relations Board ...

Dive Brief: A Cincinnati-based logistics operator paid more than $56,000 in back wages and liquidated damages after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that the company miscalculated workers’ overtime pay, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division announced Nov. 15. The ...

Dive Brief: A federal jury awarded $12.69 million on Nov. 8 to a former IT employee for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan after finding that it refused her religious accommodation request to be exempted from a 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate ...

The Family and Medical Leave Act may cover time off for employees to participate in clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Labor said in a Nov. 8 opinion letter. An unnamed organization — one working to find a cure for ...

Dive Brief: The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court’s ruling against a worker who charged her employer, the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corp., with discrimination and retaliation after she was passed over for at least four promotions ...

Early career job seekers and hiring managers expect different outcomes from the hiring process, drawing a disparity between companies’ immediate hiring needs and workers’ desires for long-term growth, according to a Nov. 13 report from Talogy, a global talent management ...

Open enrollment 2025 is largely still underway, yet many HR leaders are already planning for how they’ll meet the pressure to curb rising healthcare spend next year, while still getting employees the quality healthcare they need, want to use, and ...

Dive Brief: A Texas federal judge on Friday struck down the U.S. Department of Labor’s recently expanded overtime rule nationwide, stripping overtime eligibility from an estimated 1 million workers, according to a court filing.  U.S. District Court Judge Sean Jordan ...

Dive Brief: Employers may not exclude from an employee’s regular rate of pay any payments made to the employee as reimbursement for certain expenses if the employee does not actually incur those expenses, the U.S. Department of Labor said in ...

Dive Brief: Smithfield Foods has agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims alleging the pork company violated Minnesota’s child labor laws by employing at least 11 underage workers at a meat processing plant. The Minnesota Department of Labor and ...