Labor Rights
Meal and rest breaks: what the law actually guarantees by state
Break rules are set state by state, and the differences decide whether a skipped lunch is a legal violation or just a hard day.
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Labor Rights
Labor Rights covers the rules that govern a job and what happens when they break: wage and hour enforcement, safety investigations, discrimination suits and misclassification fights. Each story is anchored to a filing, an inspection or a docket.
Wage theft, workplace safety, discrimination, misclassification and the enforcement agencies workers rely on, tracked through cases and data.
Labor Rights
The labor rights movement: victories every worker inherits
The eight-hour day, the weekend, safety law and wage enforcement all trace to organizing that most workers never see.
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What Retaliatory Termination Looks Like, and How Courts Spot It
Retaliatory termination is a firing meant to punish a protected complaint. Here is how at-will rules work, what retaliation looks like, and what proof does in court.
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FNB logs its 16th straight Pittsburgh Top Workplaces award
The Pittsburgh bank's award streak is long by any measure. What the numbers behind the honors actually measure is a narrower question.
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How to document wage theft before you file a complaint
Pay stubs, time records and saved texts are what turn a suspicion about unpaid wages into a claim an investigator can act on.
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Two OSHAs: why a violation costs more in some states
More than 20 states run their own OSHA plans with their own penalty schedules. California's 2025 numbers show how wide the spread from federal maximums can be.