Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Even though employees take fewer paid vacation days than ...

Workers tend to leave paid time off, like vacation days, on the table each year. Those unused days may not roll over to next year; you may also not get a financial benefit by forgoing them. There are ...

Paid time off policies that employees perceive to be "good" can help create a positive work-life balance and prevent burnout, allowing employees to disconnect. Of course, not all policies are created ...

As reported in last month’s CDF Wage & Hour Task Force blog post, a recent Ninth Circuit panel in Harstein v. Hyatt Corporation, held that employees who were “laid off” at the beginning of the ...