Employers can take a variety of proactive steps to protect themselves from meal and break time violations, writes attorney Jonathan Fraser Light. Human resources managers’ eyes may glaze over when ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against a healthcare management company for alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The lawsuit claimed that the company ...

Normalizing taking a full hour’s lunch break is as easy as normalizing eating a sandwich over a keyboard. Don’t we all know by now that rest is a critical piece of the productivity puzzle? Taking ...

More than half of Americans skip lunch in order to work more, according to a recent survey. The poll of 2,000 employed Americans, with a quota of 1,000 working parents with school-aged kids, revealed ...

A New York nursing home has tentatively agreed to pay $2.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it deducted lunch breaks that nursing staff never took and denied overtime pay as a result.

A now-closed nursing home has agreed to pay $380,000 to settle allegations it deducted pay from workers’ paychecks for meal breaks even when officials knew employees routinely worked through them. The ...