A T.J. Maxx employee claims that thousands of its California employees had to work through their rest breaks but were forced to mark otherwise on their time sheets. The retailer is facing other Califo...

Business and labor groups announce a deal to avoid a ballot measure battle over lawsuits by California workers.

A doctoral thesis by IIES graduate student, Sreyashi Sen, has delved deep into the complexities of labor regulations, job security provisions, and capital market frictions to understand their effects ...

The federal government is now following California in some aspects of labor law

Amazon workers in San Bernardino claim the company will not allow them to take all their state-mandated breaks.

In December 1910, the exiled former leader Manuel Bonilla boarded a borrowed yacht and set sail for Honduras in hopes of reclaiming power by whatever means necessary. Bonilla had a powerful backer: the notorious organization known throughout Latin America as “El Pulpo.” It was a U.S. corporation trafficking in, of all things, bananas. John Soluri investigates the United Fruit Company.