The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took TCI of Alabama, LLC to federal court after its administrative conciliation process failed to produce a pre-litigation settlement. On July 22, 2026, the agency announced how the case ended: a three-year consent decree under which the recycler will pay $2.6 million in monetary damages to compensate women who were…

The NLRB announced a $3,662,485 settlement for 51 former Langeloth Metallurgical strikers, covering backpay, 401(k) contributions, interest, taxes and $1.275 million in front pay.

Federal wage investigators keep finding the same arrangement in restaurants: one set of timecards for the payroll system and another that records the hours actually worked. A Michigan case resolved this summer describes exactly that, with a detail that turns an ordinary overtime case into something harder to explain away. The second set of records…

A record year for one state’s labor department is really a record year for the workers who got their money back. North Carolina announced that it recovered $3.7 million in unpaid wages this fiscal year — the most it has ever clawed back for workers shorted on their paychecks. Behind that headline number is a…

Two hundred fifty thousand dollars is what an Arizona senior-living operator agreed to pay to close a federal sexual harassment lawsuit. The detail worth a working person’s attention is who the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said did the harassing: not a supervisor and not a coworker, but residents of the facility the employees were hired…

Almost everyone who gets laid off assumes the job is gone and that whoever the company hires next is none of their business. In one slice of the California economy, that assumption is wrong and expensive. A covered hotel, event center, airport food operation or building services contractor that laid workers off for a pandemic-related…

A layoff that lands with no notice can knock a household budget flat before there is any time to react. For workers at larger companies, federal law tries to soften that blow by requiring advance warning, and when an employer fails to give it, the missing notice can convert into real money. Under the WARN…

Plenty of workers are handed a 1099 form, told they are independent contractors, and quietly stripped of overtime pay they are legally owed. The paperwork does not decide it. Federal law looks at how the job actually works, and if your employer controls the way you do it, you may be an employee entitled to…

Being shorted on pay is more common than most people think, and getting it back does not require hiring a lawyer or filing a lawsuit. If an employer denied you overtime you earned, paid you under the minimum wage, or shaved hours off your check, you can file a free complaint with a government wage…

If you work for tips, there is a paycheck rule that a lot of workers, and some employers, get wrong. Under federal law your employer can count your tips toward the minimum wage, but it cannot use tips as an excuse to pay you less than the full minimum overall. If your tips plus your…