With the World Cup starting this week, thousands of international tourists from different tipping cultures will be flooding the U.S., and attorneys say that restaurants considering imposing mandatory service charges to offset potential missing tips must keep wage and hour compliance in mind. Here, Here, Law360 shares three tips for service-industry employers to consider if mandatory service charges enter their compensation game.
In the coming months, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s chief will wield her newly centralized powers to continue zeroing in on employers’ diversity, equity and inclusion practices and investigating antisemitism allegations on college campuses, attorneys said. Here, Law360 looks at what to expect from the agency in the second half of 2026.
A Connecticut restaurant's attorneys must pay $7,000 to a sushi chef's attorneys after bringing the chef's ex-manager onscreen during a remote deposition in a wage lawsuit, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying sanctions are warranted for conduct that can reasonably be interpreted as an intimidation tactic.