Work Rules Contract Issues

The Air Line Pilots Association, representing the more than 500 Spirit Airlines pilots, filed suit Wednesday alleging the Miramar-based air carrier is violating its 2003 labor contract. The pilots' complaint was filed in the federal court in eastern...

Florida Power & Light Co. customers aren't the only ones let down by the utility's alternative-energy program. Green Mountain Energy, the contractor FPL hired to run the Sunshine Energy program, claims the utility underpaid it by $485,166. The Florida...

An ongoing New York state labor investigation has found as many as 1,200 backstretch workers at Saratoga Race Course may have been underpaid, overworked and required to live in unfit conditions. The investigation has found about 80 percent of 110 low-...

An ongoing New York state labor investigation has found as many as 1,200 backstretch workers at Saratoga Race course may have been underpaid, overworked and required to live in unfit conditions, Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith said Wednesday. The...

Question: What is it about summer that makes people lose all sense of decorum? We have a comprehensive dress code in our office, but as soon as the weather warms up, employees start taking liberties. The violations range from flip-flops, jeans and T-...

The speaker in this excerpt is 80-year-old Janitor Baron, the play's narrator: "Hear that? Silence. Beautiful silence, pure silence. The kind of silence that only comes from spending years in the back woods. We ain't in the back woods (though I'm...

Why does Jean Marbella feel that she needs to give the giant retailer Wal-Mart - which has been convicted of workplace violations that could result in $2 billion in penalties - so many column inches of glowing press and free advertising about its sudden...

I drove out to the future of grocery stores yesterday, but when I stopped for gas, I ended up on a detour to the past. There wasn't anywhere on the gas pump to stick my credit card, so I just started filling up, marveling that there was still a place...

Hose or no hose? That's the working woman's dilemma around this time of year. The weather grows warmer, and the debate heats up: Are bare legs proper? In today's casual workplaces, many women have peeled off the pantyhose, and it is now common to see...

As weather began warming several weeks ago, Wyandanch school Superintendent Sherman Roberts grew increasingly upset at the sight of teachers casually clad in denim and spandex. So Roberts fired off a memo to the district's 400 employees, warning they...

When an internal fight at a trade union erupts into the news, American culture has a ready frame. It's Marlon Brando versus Lee J. Cobb in "On the Waterfront" once again, perhaps updated by a recent episode of "The Wire," set among the corrupt and...

About 50 taxi cab drivers protested working conditions they said were "like slavery" this morning. The independent cab drivers want the city of Orlando to change the taxi system, which they say is a near-monopoly. The city allows only a limited number of...