Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home

 Last year, the Department of Labor announced a new proposed rule about how workers are classified as employees or independent contractors....

The U.S. Department of Labor has provided a guidance that gives specific examples of what constitutes illegal retaliation. The complete guid...

I've done a few posts about the criminalization of employment law, and in those posts I've asked why it's all one-sided. Employ...

A new indictment in a trade secret case , where a former employee opened his own business, made me think about something that's been bo...

I previously reported that big business in Florida has made three attempts to repeal local efforts to crack down on corporate wage theft. It...

This question from an AOL Jobs reader reflects an all too common situation that many hourly workers face: Hello. I was reading an article...

I received this question from a reader: I'm in the process to get my green card. I worked for a guy for few weeks. He knew that I did...

In honor of my daughter landing her first internship, I thought I'd go through once again an issue that comes up every summer. Many inte...

Remember last year's viral campaign ad? The one that said, " Wake the f*#k up ?" America woke up, sort of, and then went right...

The Florida Retail Federation hopes the third time's the charm in trying to make wage theft legal. They tried two other times to strike...

Miami-Dade County's wage theft ordinance has been in effect since 2010. It was the first such ordinance in the nation. This month, Brow...

I attended what was supposed to be my first hearing under Miami-Dade County's ground-breaking wage theft ordinance yesterday. I say it ...

If big corporations wonder why average Americans think they’re pond scum, they need look no further than the recent efforts of the Florida R...

I’m getting out my iPad’s magic 8-ball app and looking into the future. I see a big year for employment law issues in 2012. Here’s where I t...