DOL and state labor departments are eyeing this summer’s FIFA World Cup events and monitoring wage and hour enforcement while trying to guide employers. Personally, I am skipping the Seattle event.

In late 2024, I wrote two personal checks to pay some small bills and put them in my home US mailbox. I was aware that there had been some mail theft in my neighborhood, so shame on me for not taking better precautions. Neither check reached their recipient. So begins the tale.

It has been a long 41-year largely continuous run, but I have decided to hang my instructor gig up in 2026. Tomorrow, I will teach my last virtual seminar for Federal Publications. And this summer I will teach my last in-person live session. All things must pass. Here is a thank you to all my students.