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Employers have the legal right to control employees’ activities on the job. That includes putting a stop to political activism or political solicitations at work.

We used a GPS device on a driver this past week and found out that he parks his truck sometimes for as long as three hours and clocks this time as working time. Can we discipline him for this, letting him know that we are aware that he is stealing time?

Two federal courts have now weighed in on the FTC's noncompete ban, reaching opposite conclusions and setting up what could be a lengthy legal fight.

How far can you go in monitoring employees? Legal lines divide what is and is not permitted.

A federal appeals court recently reminded a lower court that the FLSA requires paying hourly workers for all time spent working on their employer’s behalf.

Is anxiety considered a disability under the ADA?

New proposed regulations on heat breaks may make employers liable for overtime they didn’t see coming. Now is the time to review your policies to make sure they comply with DOL FLSA rules on paid and unpaid breaks.

Many employers haven’t yet revamped their policies in light of 2023's Supreme Court ruling—and that’s triggering a flurry of EEOC complaints and religious-discrimination lawsuits.

Too many HR files consist of fat folders, organized one per employee, with the most recent documentation at the front and everything dating back to Day One behind it.

The Department of Labor isn’t buying the AI-will-soon-replace-HR argument. In new guidance, the DOL maintains that human oversight is still necessary when it comes to complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act and the FMLA.