By Dina M. Mastellone and Allison M. Benz
Now more than ever, it’s essential to have an up-to-date employee handbook so you can be armed with policies to defend against such claims. You should examine your handbooks to update policies and implement new ones to comply with the top three new laws passed in 2018, outlined below.

By Rich Glass
The opening line to the animated classic movie The Lion King—"Life's not fair!"—doesn't apply to health and welfare benefits. Long-standing nondiscrimination rules are designed to ensure that life is fair—that there is no favoritism of highly paid employees.

By Barbara J. Koenig
Employees or trainees? Students at for-profit massage therapy schools realized that while performing their required clinical hours by giving massages to the schools' clients, they were helping the facilities make money. The students thought of themselves as unpaid employees and sued the schools for back wages. Did they have a claim?