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A Pepsi Bottling Group employee who hurt his back while on the job is entitled to reimbursement for his medical marijuana costs, a New Jersey state appeals court said recently. An order from the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s workers’ compensation office had previously called on Pepsi to reimburse Brian W. Calmon...

Workers across the United States could soon be afforded certain privileges that could be life-changing in many cases.  As part of President Joe Biden’s ‘American Families Plan,’ he is calling for a slew of social initiatives — billed as “an investment in our kids, our families, and our economic future” — that would include,...

A man who worked his way up the employment chain at a Walmart store in Massachusetts says he was fired from his job after he complained about discrimination in the workplace.  Marc Brown, who worked for Walmart from February 2016 through March 2019, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of...

A new program aimed at helping to protect “high risk” workers from contracting COVID-19 was announced this week by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  The “national emphasis program” is designed to aid in safety enforcement efforts and comes after President Joe Biden issued an executive order about protecting worker...

A California-based food supplier company is being sued in Georgia federal court by a former employee who claims he was fired for requesting to work remotely during the pandemic.  Alan Varnadoe, 66, filed the suit March 8.  He was a scheduler for one of the plants owned by Golden State Foods in Georgia who...

In case Uber drivers in California didn’t get the message in November, a federal judge is helping drive home the message: “The will of the voters is clearly against” a group trying to sue for employee misclassification.  The drivers, represented by Ronald L. Zambrano of West Coast Trial Lawyers APLC, were pushing to continue...

Despite the backing of the high-powered ACLU, meatpacking workers who filed suit against their employer for claims that safety measures were not properly in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus have been blocked by a federal judge.  U.S. District Judge John M. Gerrard decided this month that the case, Alma et al....

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