Length of service is a traditional compensable factor that innovative companies have been re-evaluating in recent years. Rather than rewarding employees based on their contributions to ...

The time the employee spends waiting before the conference 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. on Saturday (1 hour and a half) is not compensable because he or she performed no work. *The hours spent driving between ...

The Honolulu federal court is the current stage for a landmark environmental injury case following the 2021 Red Hill fuel ...

A trial for a mass environmental injury case begins more than two years after a military fuel tank facility poisoned ...

A gusher of jet fuel that leaked into the base’s drinking water in November 2021 led to a lawsuit that forced the Navy to ...

As noted here, courts generally hold that compensable work under the FLSA is work that employers require, know about, or should have known about. Traditionally, employers tracked time worked through ...

In Honolulu, the echoes of an environmental catastrophe resound through the federal court, as litigation unfolds to address a ...

A Cedar Rapids employee blames a COVID-19 vaccination he got at city's urging for side effects, seeks workers' comp ...

A U.S. military fuel tank facility underground poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor's ...

More than two years after jet fuel leaked into the system supplying water to almost 93,000 people in Hawaii, families ...

Apple Inc., 8 Cal. 5th 1038 (2020), which found that time spent waiting for and undergoing required exit searches of bags and other personal items was compensable under California law as ...

Richelle Dietz is a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy officer living on a Hawaii military base who often thinks about ...