A single-week record is masking a U.S. labor market that's harder to read than the headline number suggests ...

New unemployment claims fell to their lowest weekly level since 1969 last week, a genuinely startling number on its face. But a closer read of the U.S. Department of Labor's release, and the data ...

An Iowa worker who claimed years of unpaid labor lost his case - he couldn't prove the work he did or what he was owed. On July 22, 2026, the Court of Appeals of Iowa sided with a family business, ...

An appeal court has partly overturned a director's personal liability for his company's Fair Work breaches, after finding his trial was procedurally unfair. On July 21, 2026, the Full Federal Court ...

The Federal Court has found Domino's engaged in misleading conduct over the pay rates its franchisees applied to their staff. The decision, handed down on July 22, 2026, is one for HR and payroll ...

An aluminum plant's brick mason waited eight years to file for workers' comp. A Tennessee appeals board ruled his clock hadn't run out. On July 22, 2026, the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Appeals ...

A federal appeals court has struck down the rule that required employers to log workers' job-related mental illnesses, reshaping recordkeeping duties for HR. On July 21, 2026, the Fifth Circuit Court ...

That pattern lines up with what The Conference Board's Employment Trends Index has been showing for months: an economy stuck in what former Fed Chair Jerome Powell dubbed a "low-hire, low-fire" ...

With both elements satisfied, the casual service counted toward continuous service. The Commission found the worker had served at least six months, was a person protected from unfair dismissal when he ...

A compliance officer hired to keep her employer within disability and leave laws says it broke them - and fired her for speaking up. That is the core of a lawsuit filed July 22, 2026, in the US ...

The decision, released July 13, 2026, by Justice Mathen of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, granted the former vice-president a declaration that he had been constructively dismissed and ordered ...

A Philadelphia correctional officer says she was strip-searched and forced to urinate in a trash can at work - then fired after she asked to be moved.