The company operating Mo's Seafood restaurants will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit with 34 former employees who said they were underpaid.

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Employers are all over the map in what they consider acceptable workplace attire, even companies in the same industry.

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After nearly a 10-year hiatus, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently issued three formal opinion letters, setting forth its views on various wage-and-hour issues addressed to the WHD by interested parties.

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The power of class actions took a major blow earlier this month as the Supreme Court held in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis that arbitration agreements banning class actions for employees are enforceable.

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Energized by the #MeToo movement, two national advocacy groups are teaming up to lodge sexual harassment complaints against McDonald's on behalf of 10 women who have worked at the fast food restaurant in nine cities.

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims.

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A bill to delay the implementation and enforcement of the controversial paid sick leave law faces a dim future after passing the Senate on Thursday.

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The owner of two Prince George’s County strip clubs owes his dancers unpaid wages because they were employees and not independent contractors -- as he had erroneously asserted -- a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

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The Department of Labor has weighed in on when to classify workers as employees and independent contractors, issuing a 15-page memo with new interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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The retirement offer affected about 5 percent of the Sparks-based company's U.S. workforce.

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