Do Carl’s Jr. restaurants prevent managers from moving between locations owned by different franchisees to keep wages artificially low and to prevent restaurants from competing against each other for the best employees? That’s what one current and one former employee allege in a lawsuit against the fast food chain, calling the policy unfair to those managers. [More]
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Lawsuit: Carl’s Jr. Blocked Managers From Accepting Jobs With Other Franchisees
By 2.9.17 — Updated: 3.22.17
Labor Dept. Tries To Revive Overtime Rule Derided By Trump’s Pick For Labor Secretary
By 12.15.16
In November, with only days to go before a new federal overtime rule was set to kick in — adding an estimated 4 million American works to the list of those eligible to receive overtime pay — a federal court granted a nationwide injunction blocking the new rule from being enforced. Now Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is appealing that injunction, even though his successor under the incoming Trump administration will almost certainly drop that appeal once in office. [More]
