By Gregory Hanscom A centerpiece of President Obama’s current legislative agenda is raising the federal minimum wage. While many doubt a bill raising the … Read more

By Gregory Hanscom A centerpiece of President Obama’s current legislative agenda is raising the federal minimum wage. While many doubt a bill raising the … Read more
By John E. Thompson A White House report promoting a substantial jump in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act‘s minimum wage perpetuates now widely … Read more
By John E. Thompson The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released a report entitled Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers, 2013 which claims that … Read more
By Ashley Kaplan The legal environment for employers is always changing. And nowhere is this felt more strongly than at the state (and even local) level. … Read more
By John E. Thompson We have already reported that a group calling itself the “Fair Pay Campaign” aims to pressure colleges and universities not … Read more
By Ashley Kaplan We’re only a few months into 2014 and we’re already seeing a swell of labor law activity. What are the most significant developments this … Read more
The following is my response to an item on Retail Wire concerning the fact that The Gap has announced they are going to raise the starting wage of … Read more
In what could be BIG news for employers, President Obama is directing the U.S. Department of Labor to issue proposed regulations that would expand the … Read more
A case that has the potential to cost staffing companies — and, in turn, their clients — hundreds of millions of dollars is headed to the U.S. Supreme … Read more
By David J. Goldstein As he promised to do in his State of the Union address, President Obama today signed an Executive Order establishing a minimum wage … Read more