labor laws

A group of hourly-paid department managers this week joined assistant department managers in a federal lawsuit against Publix, alleging the regional supermarket chain failed to pay them overtime in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

South Florida activists held a “water fast” to urge Miami−Dade commissioners to pass an ordinance to protect almost 100,000 people required to work outdoors during record high temperatures.

Hospitals using volunteers is commonplace. But some labor experts argue that deploying unpaid workers to do tasks that benefits the bottom line lets for-profit facilities skirt federal laws, deprives employees of work, and potentially exploits the volunteers.

Amazon should recognize its first unionized warehouse in the U.S., a federal labor official ruled.

Starbucks workers unionized at record speed. But workers are now filing fewer unionization petitions, one year on.

Santonastasso Enterprises broke the law when more than a 100 teens were asked to work too many hours or too many late shifts, according to the Department of Labor.

The first round of election results are in for Colombia, and we catch up on other Latin America headlines. Plus, an initiative to try to improve conditions for farmworkers on and off the field. And it’s Wildlife Thursday — we’re talking about those tiny pesky critters we love to hate — mosquitoes.

Two Jacksonville Starbucks stores voted to unionize Tuesday, following a Tallahassee Starbucks that was the first to unionize in Florida last week.

On an investor call, Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz said the company was investing $1 billion to raise wages, enhance benefits and modernize stores. But unionized stores won't get some of that.

Federal officials asked the court to have the employees reinstated. At least 28 Starbucks stores across the country have voted to form a union.

One labor and employment observer said the New York vote was "shocking," since Amazon workers there had no support from an established union.

Voting is ending at three stores around Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks had flown in executives to the area and asked federal officials to delay the ballot count.