The New York State Assembly is poised to pass legislation that would allow part-time workers to collect unemployment insurance and put a stay on evictions and foreclosures for small businesses, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced Tuesday.

New York City allegedly fired four director-level employees from its Civilian Complaint Review Board because they raised concerns over the handling of police misconduct complaints, access to body-camera footage, and other police oversight failures in the wake of racial justice protests, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan.

An employee who worked on Sachs Electric Co.'s California Flats Solar Project may proceed as part of a class on state-law claims that he and nearly 770 others weren’t compensated for pre-shift time spent riding in company vehicles to their work sites, a federal judge in San Jose ruled.

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a bill to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, highlighting their intention to include the measure in the next round of Covid-19 relief.

The U.S. government must defend a medical malpractice lawsuit against a doctor employed by a federally deemed community health center in federal court because he was acting within the scope of his employment when the alleged malpractice occurred, the Second Circuit said.

In August, the co-living company Common released a request for proposals from U.S. cities that wanted to host a “Remote Work Hub” — a kind of office-plus-apartment complex aimed at young digital nomads. This week the company announced five winners of this quasi-competition, who will now move on to the workshop phase: Developers in New Orleans; Bentonville, Arkansas; Ogden, Utah; Rocky Mount, North Carolina; and Rochester, New York. Their prize is design expertise and a marketing boost from the Common team.

President Joe Biden has appointed Cynthia Attwood as the new chairman of the judicial board hearing appeals of Occupational Safety and Health Administration citations.