Here's a tip for management — keep your hands off of your employees' tips. A recent case filing by class of employees against a cann...

"Are you on the dessert menu? Because you look yummy." First, ick!   Secondly, these are the types of comments to which customers ...

News broke earlier this month that Hamdi Ulukaya, the billionaire founder of Chobani yogurt, purchased the assets of Anchor Brewing after it...

If today's dysfunctionally fractured Congress can agree on anything on a bipartisan basis, it must be a good idea. Raise your glass to ...

Fair State Brewing, one the nation's first unionized craft breweries, just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Meanwhile and els...

If you google “brewery harassment” you’ll polish off an entire six-pack before you finish reading all of the horror stories.   🤮 “Breweries...

Consider the following two policies, which restaurants and bars have implemented to save a few nickels against their tight margins:   “Effec...

In addition to running the employment & labor practice at Wickens Herzer Panza , I also run our burgeoning craft beer practice . Which ...

Your customers are not your bank. It’s not their job to bail you out from poor business decisions. I’ve been thinking a lot about this idea ...

Last week, the employees of Creature Comforts Brewing Co.  voted by a margin of 32-21 to reject the Brewing Union of Georgia as their barg...

I spent my Saturday night at 8th Day Brewing Company  watching my 17-year-old daughter, Norah, play a killer 3-hour set of music. When we sa...

It took more than seven months, but the NLRB has finally directed a union representation election at Creature Comforts Brewing Company. Th...

In a press release , the EEOC announced the filing of a series of sexual harassment lawsuits against Las Vegas hospitality employers.  [The ...

Consider this example, and then let's talk. Lydia works as a cellar person in a brewery. The essential functions of her job include the ...

As the weather warms up around the country and spring quickly transitions to summer, festival season will begin … including my personal favo...

Bar Vegan in an affiliate of Slutty Vegan, a plant-based restaurant chain that finds itself in the crosshairs of a wage-and-hour collective ...

According to the EEOC, the industry that generates the most sexual harassment reports (at more than 14% of all such claims filed with the ag...

The Department of Labor has sued the owner of two restaurants claiming that servers were not properly paid overtime.  El Toro Loco Legends ...

On this week's episode of The Start A Brewery Podcast , I join hosts Laura Lodge and Candace Moon , along with guests Ren Navarro  (the...

"A company that opposes a union organizing and presents both sides of this complex issue is 'union busting.'" This is what...