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El Milagro was fined $11,200 for meal break violations, but the Illinois Department of Labor says the company has not paid that fine.

A summary judgment ruling from the Southern District of New York last Thursday set aside a challenge brought by two restaurant industry plaintiffs

New York City regulators recently proposed new rules that will further burden fast food employers, revealing a mixed bag of employer-unfriendly interpretations of existing city law...

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While most of our focus over the last year has been on COVID-19-related developments, New York State and New York City employers also must ensure compliance with other recent and...

Employee burnout is, without a doubt, one of the top business news items of the year. In a recent report from employee benefits provider The Hartford, 61 percent of U.S. workers said they were experiencing burnout at work, including 68 percent of women and 52 percent of men.

Workers at chains like Starbucks, Chipotle, and McDonald’s face opposition when trying to form unions. Civil Eats goes inside one recent NYC worker protest at Chipotle.

Chipotle employees in Houston, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Chipotle employees in New York City are striking on Sunday to protest working

In an opinion issued Monday, a Southern District of New York judge granted summary judgment in favor of Starbucks, rejecting a former store manager's

In Upstate New York, immigrant dairy hands lobbied the state to amend its labor laws so people who milk cows could rely on the minimum wage and overtime. In Dallas, after an immigrant construction worker died of heat stroke, day laborers and non-union building trades workers persuaded the city to pass an ordinance requiring rest breaks. In Philadelphia and in other cities and states around the ...