Laws governing the employer–employee relationship are extremely complex. Compliance costs and regulatory risks are high, and these costs are primarily borne by employees in the form of lower wages.

From a field once governed solely by the employment-at-will rule that employees have almost no rights against termination or any form of workplace treatment, labor and employment law has grown into ...

My name is Rachel Greszler. I am a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance at The Heritage Foundation, and a visiting fellow in workforce at the Economic Policy Innovation Center. The ...

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...