A former employee could proceed on a claim that her employer treated her differently from other similarly situated employees on account of race when the employer decided to fire her.

The holiday season is here, and many employers will host their annual year-end celebrations in the weeks to come. These events are generally meant to reward employees and foster camaraderie—but employers could be on the hook for holiday-party mishaps.

Federal data show that about 1 percent of workers in the United States use apps and online platforms to find and perform gig work.

​U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has proposed changing how each year’s limited number of H-1B visa petitions are chosen. The agency wants to reverse current practice and hold a lottery first to randomly select applicants, then have employers file their petitions for visas.

The time is ripe to crush complexity and simplify work. But simplifying is not easy.

LabourStart headline – Source: The Times

U.S. Federal Reserve officials convinced the massive U.S. bond market has fundamentally changed in the last decade are about to test their commitment to that idea against investors who have begun betting against the U.S. central bank’s ability to continue raising interest rates.

Ireland’s finance minister poured cold water Tuesday on a new Franco-German proposal for a European tax on companies’ digital revenues, saying it failed to address his concerns.