With 87% of companies already tracking employee wellness data and AI layoffs creating desperate workers, this dystopian scenario might be closer than you think.

Minnesota enacted updates to its meal and rest break law, affecting nearly all employers operating in the state. These changes went into effect on January 1, 2026. Employers should ensure policies, ...

Employers can take a variety of proactive steps to protect themselves from meal and break time violations, writes attorney Jonathan Fraser Light. Human resources managers’ eyes may glaze over when ...

Beginning 1.1.26, all employers in Minnesota must allow qualifying employees the opportunity to take a paid rest break of at least 15 minutes for every four consecutive hours worked. Employers also ...

Question: Some of my employees regularly waive their 30-minute meal breaks so they can leave earlier. We normally ask these employees to sign a meal period waiver for each shift for record-keeping ...

A now-closed nursing home has agreed to pay $380,000 to settle allegations it deducted pay from workers’ paychecks for meal breaks even when officials knew employees routinely worked through them. The ...

ST. LOUIS — Lunch breaks have been part of American workers' lives for nearly a century. It's just a time to eat for some, while others use it to get some much-needed time to themselves. But, not ...