A federal judge has ordered a Wisconsin company that cleans hundreds of slaughterhouses nationwide to ensure it is complying with child labor laws after investigators identified at least 50 minors scrubbing and sanitizing dangerous equipment on overnight shifts at five different meatpacking plants in three states.

Organizations that retain freelancers might want to take a second look to assess whether the Department of Labor would deem these workers independent contractors or employees.

For the first time in 40 years, the U.S. Department of Labor is revising its regulations banning sexual discrimination in federal contracting.

The U.S. Labor Department is seeking to recover back pay and damages for more than 100 employees in a lawsuit against four El Azteca restaurants in the Fox Valley of Wisconsin.

The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the Obama administration in upholding a rule making mortgage brokers eligible for overtime pay under federal labor law.

Recent guidance issued by the Department of Labor could trigger litigation over a new concern: whether private business owners with religious objections to gay marriage can be required to extend employment benefits to their employees’ same-sex spouses in states where such unions are not recognized.

In an effort to fend off an official investigation of its books, a major tobacco company hired a law firm to audit the classification of 5,000 workers.

In an effort to fend off a real audit of its books, one of the major tobacco companies hired a law firm to look into whether it was classifying its 5,000 workers correctly.

Employers can preserve “institutional knowledge” by providing accommodations to aging workers who might otherwise leave the workforce prematurely due to disabilities or chronic health problems, according to two new briefs issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.

A new rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor would make it easier for trustees of companies in Chapter 7 bankruptcy to distribute assets from its retirement plans.

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development recently released a new guide to child labor laws.

The Department of Labor has issued a guidance to state agencies on a new program for short-time unemployment compensation or “work sharing.”

The internship represents a peculiar type of quid pro quo in the corporate world: An employer gains help and a worker gains experience, often without any money changing hands. Until recently few gave the ethical or legal aspects of unpaid internships much thought.

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court this week tackled the question of whether pharmaceutical representatives who educate, entertain and pitch their products to doctors are salespeople, a decision that will determine whether they are entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The proposed fiscal 2013 budget released by the White House outlines a number of the administration’s priorities related to lawyers, from an increase in enforcement of federal employment and labor laws to more focused attention on food and drug safety and immigration enforcement.

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a new final rule governing the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker program that the agency said will give U.S. workers greater protections and job access.

The Department of Labor has announced proposed revisions to regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act that would expand military family leave provisions and incorporate a special eligibility provision for airline flight crew employees.

The owner of Allen Howe & Son Inc. is facing charges he embezzled more than $56,000 from employees.