Employee Lawsuit Claims McDonald’s Fails to Address Sexual Harassment November 13, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner and Jonathan Stempel Mc Donald’s Corp. was sued on Tuesday by workers in Michigan who accused the fast-food chain of allowing pervasive sexual...
National Labor Board Memo Says Uber Drivers Are Contractors, Not Employees May 15, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner Drivers for ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc. are independent contractors and not employees, the general counsel of a U.S. labor...
Feds Issue Proposal to Ease Franchisor Liability April 15, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor issued a proposal that would make it more difficult to prove companies...
Labor Department Moves to Ease Franchisor Liability April 2, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday issued a proposal that would make it more difficult to prove companies are...
Trump Administration Unveils Higher Threshold to Expand Overtime Pay March 8, 2019 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. Department of Labor issued a long-awaited proposal on Thursday to extend mandatory overtime pay to a million more...
Walmart Paying $65M to Settle California Suit Over Seating For Cashiers October 12, 2018 By Daniel Wiessner Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $65 million to nearly 100,000 current and former cashiers in California who accused the...
Trump’s Labor Board to Try Again to Ease Obama Franchise Liability Standard September 14, 2018 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that enforces federal labor laws took the first steps on Thursday towards loosening an Obama-era standard that...
U.S. Labor Judge Nixes McDonald’s Deal to Avoid Joint Employer Tag July 18, 2018 By Daniel Wiessner A judge with a U.S. labor agency on Tuesday rejected McDonald’s Corp.’s proposed settlement of a major case on whether...
Wal-Mart Settles Transgender Employee’s Claim Over Firing June 7, 2018 By Daniel Wiessner Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday settled a lawsuit by a transgender former employee in North Carolina who accused the retail...
Court Revives Challenge to Seattle’s Ridesharing Union Law May 14, 2018 By Daniel Wiessner A U.S. appeals court has revived a leading business group’s challenge to a Seattle law, the first of its kind,...