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It’s An Election Year: Understanding Restrictions on Employer Actions Regarding Employee Political Activity

Seyfarth Synopsis:  In six months, the U.S. presidential election will take place and inevitably employee views on the elections and election issues will make their way into the workplace.  In yesterday’s highly polarized...more

California Considers Cutting the Cord with Right to Disconnect Legislation

California lawmakers have introduced legislation that would give employees the right to ignore communications from their employers that are received outside the contours of their “working hours,” which must first be agreed...more

A Four-Day Workweek? What Employers Can Expect from Congress’ Newest Fight for a 32-Hour Workweek

A new piece of legislation introduced in Congress, if enacted, would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to establish 32-hour workweek for non-exempt employees, with no loss in pay. While the bill is unlikely to gain steam, it...more

Legislative Update: Nearing the End of the Road (for 2023)

Seyfarth Synopsis: Now that the Legislature’s September 14, 2023 deadline to pass bills to the Governor has come and gone, we are providing an overview of  which employment bills are before the Governor for consideration,...more

Invited to a Party or a Pounding?: Responding to Congressional Investigations

A quick glance at the hearing schedules of the Senate HELP Committee and the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce should alert employers to one thing: Congress is interested in them. The Senate...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - June 2023

Aaaaaand we're back! As we did around the same time last year, we would like the thank the readers for y’all’s patience during our summer hiatus to allow our authors to take a short break to get some Vitamin D and replenish....more

Policy Matters Newsletter - May 2023

That AI Is So Hot Right Now, But What Is It? As we noted in this podcast, the labor and employment community – nay, most of the world – is struggling to figure out the best way to reap the benefits of AI, while most...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - April 2023 #2

Federal Salary Transparency Act. Much has been written recently regarding the various salary transparency and reporting laws that have sprouted from state Houses across the Nation (we spoke to California’s onerous...more

Legislative Update: Which L&E Bills Will Flourish Or Wilt As The Legislature Resumes Work After Spring Break?

Seyfarth Synopsis: When the Legislature reconvenes from Spring Break on April 10, 2023, it will resume consideration of the employment bills that were among the 2,600 introduced.  Notable employment bills include those...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - April 2023

More Fallout From The FTC Proposed Noncompete Rule. As Seyfarth summarized here, and we podcasted and summarized here, the FTC has published a proposed rule which would ban all non-compete agreements between employers and...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - March 2023 # 2

#EmbraceEquity — International Women’s Day and Month. March of each year is designated as Women’s History Month, and March 08 as International Women’s Day. Seyfarth has its own tag dedicated to issues of pay equity and, in...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - March 2023

Biden Officially Nominates Su To Replace Marty Walsh. This week, President Biden officially announced the nomination of Julie Su to replace Marty Walsh atop the Department of Labor. We have had numerous occasions to discuss...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - February 2023

Groundhog Day: Second Proposed Wage and Hour Boss Stuck By Senate HELP. After the Senate voted down a cloture motion to advance the nomination of Dr. David Weil to return as U.S. DOL Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”)...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - January 2023 # 2

Labor Agencies Beware: Congressional Oversight To Kick Up In 2023. Shortly after Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) ascension to the speakership, the House of Representatives reinstalled Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) as chair of the Committee...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - January 2023

Labor Employment Policy Highlights of 2022. This past term saw more legislation pass through congressional chambers at a more efficient clip than we have seen in quite some time. That does not mean that federal agencies were...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - December 2022

New ESG Final Rule, Finally. About a year ago, in this very space, we discussed the Department of Labor’s proposed rule to permit managers of employee benefits plans under ERISA to consider environmental, social, and...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - November 2022

Midterm Dust Finally Settles (For The Most Part). What do we know as of the publication of this newsletter? First, the results were not close to as red as most historians ventured, but republicans were still able to flip...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - October 2022 # 2

More Of The Great Loosening. Joe Biden surprised — and irked — many of his constituents when he announced during a 60 Minutes interview that the pandemic is essentially over. The World Health Organization would disagree on...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - October 2022

Seyfarth Hosts Government Relations Policy Summit.  Aaand we are back to our regular scheduled programming. On September 30 2022, Seyfarth hosted an in-person policy summit that included four panels and a keynote...more

Meet the New Interpretation, (Pretty Much the) Same as the Old Interpretation: the DOL Proposes Its Own Independent Contractor...

Seyfarth Synopsis: Today the U.S. Department of Labor issued its draft new interpretive regulation (or NPRM) attempting to define employee versus independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The NPRM...more

California Employment Legislative Update: Pay Transparency Headlines 2022 Session

Seyfarth Synopsis: Taking it down to the wire, Governor Newsom approved the vast majority of labor and employment bills that ran the legislative gauntlet, including bills that will expand pay data reporting and pay scale...more

Policy Matters Newsletter - September 2022

NLRB Proposes New Rulemaking On Joint Employment. The standard for determining joint  employment for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act is primed to increase exposure for employers, especially employers with...more

Final Round: Employment Bills Making The Cut To The Governor

Seyfarth Synopsis: Having run the legislative gauntlet, the fate of California’s 2022 employment bills now lie with Governor Newsom’s pen, including bills that would expand pay data reporting and pay scale requirements,...more

SB 1162 Deep In The Gridiron With Reporting Pay Data

Seyfarth Synopsis: SB 1162, which may soon be signed into law, will require employers to report even more pay data to the California Civil Rights Department (CRD, formerly DFEH), including median and mean pay gap information....more

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