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Starbucks violated federal labor law when it excluded 200+ unionized stores from a new policy that facilitated tipping via credit card, according to a new complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board NLRB. When the program rolled out in …

Facebook’s parent company, Meta is planning to layoff 10,000 employees and close 5,000 open, unfilled positions. This follows November layoffs of 11,000 or 13% of Meta’s workforce. In October, Elon Musk acquired Twitter and promptly laid off almost half its …

Jimmy Carter and his family have made the decision for him to remain at home in hospice care. What does that mean exactly? Hospice care is for any person who has a life-threatening or terminal illness. For those people, and …

A Home Depot employee counted 470 hours of unpaid wages due to the home improvement retailer’s chosen time clock rounding scheme. Despite improvements in the ability to “practically ascertain” the actual time worked by employees, Home Depot has continued to …

“It was wonderful to know that I’m one week closer to seeing my baby after completing a comprehensive handover doc before I take my leave as a Program Manager. However, the moment I checked my phone, my heart sank. I …

Gov. Newsom signed 997 bills into law and some older laws are just taking effect in 2023.

Due to inflation, on Jan. 1 California’s minimum wage increased to $15.50. Many California cities or counties have ordinances that set the …

Tax breaks and Retirement Savings Rules Changes, That’s What.

The $1.7B budget bill that landed on Biden’s desk includes the Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 which will reshape retirement tax incentives in your favor for years to come.

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Meta is planning to begin a mass layoff. According to people familiar with the matter, the layoffs are expected to affect many thousands of employees as soon as Wednesday. This would be the first mass layoff in the company’s 18-year …

Amazon’s Oregon employees filed a class action suit against their employer in 2019 alleging the e-commerce giant cheated them out of more than 40,000 hours of pay over seven years. 

Amazon employs thousands of hourly employees at its order …

The Federal WARN Act applies to plant closings and mass layoffs. A mass layoff is defined as a reduction of 500 employees  at a single job site or 50 – 499 employees if the layoff equals 33% of the total …