Departing from a pattern of recent federal district court decisions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s application for stay pending appeal of a nationwide preliminary injunction against...more
Last week brought further developments related to the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail what it views as illegal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives....more
3/13/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Education ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Educational Institutions ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Equal Protection ,
Executive Orders ,
First Amendment ,
Race Discrimination ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Sex Discrimination ,
State Attorneys General ,
Stays ,
Trump Administration
Reverberations from the Trump administration’s recent executive order (EO) denouncing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices intensified Friday when a federal judge in Baltimore issued a nationwide preliminary...more
2/25/2025
/ Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Opportunities ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Gender Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Reform ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Race Discrimination ,
Sex Discrimination ,
State Attorneys General ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
On September 6, 2023, Democratic member Gwynne Wilcox was appointed to the NLRB by former President Joe Biden. Her five-year term was scheduled to end in 2028.
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2/7/2025
/ Administrative Appointments ,
Biden Administration ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Employee Rights ,
Executive Orders ,
Labor Relations ,
Malfeasance ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Removal For-Cause ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Termination ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions
Two weeks after his inauguration, President Donald Trump continues to make unprecedented moves to impact the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)....more
2/4/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Litigation ,
Executive Orders ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
NLRB General Counsel ,
Trump Administration ,
Unions
In a two-sentence memo, the White House rescinded the spending freeze announced with great fanfare just two days prior and which we previously reported on here. The broad scope of the directive suspended all federal financial...more
One week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump has taken additional moves to impact the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)....more
On Monday, January 27, 2025, the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued a memo ordering the pause of all federal financial assistance “that may be implicated” by any of President Trump’s recent...more
1/29/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Funding ,
Medicare ,
Nonprofits ,
OMB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Social Security ,
Trump Administration
As anticipated, immediately upon his inauguration, President Trump took swift action in the labor and employment arena. His initial appointments and Executive Orders left no doubt that his administration will make an abrupt...more
1/27/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Labor Reform ,
NLRB ,
Religious Discrimination ,
Sex Discrimination ,
Trump Administration
On April 26, 2021, President Biden signed an executive order establishing the “White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment” (the “Task Force”), which will be dedicated to mobilizing the federal government’s...more
In a long anticipated move, New Jersey has again acted to provide COVID-19 related benefits to workers throughout the State. New legislation creates a rebuttable presumption that, absent demonstrable proof to the contrary,...more
9/17/2020
/ Anti-Retaliation Provisions ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Disability Benefits ,
Essential Workers ,
Executive Orders ,
Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) ,
Governor Murphy ,
Healthcare Workers ,
New Legislation ,
Preponderance of the Evidence ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
State of Emergency ,
Workers' Compensation Claim
In a continuing battle to limit the spread of COVID-19 throughout the state, on Sunday, April 12, Governor Murphy issued another order, Executive Order 125, implementing additional requirements for restaurants, bars,...more
On April 8, 2020, Governor Murphy signed Executive Order No. 122 (the Order) strengthening mitigation requirements on essential retail, manufacturing, and warehousing businesses and certain building owners, while also banning...more
Governor Phil Murphy—officially in office just two days—has already begun to implement many of the "progressive" policy changes he promised on the campaign trail and transform New Jersey into the "California of the East."...more
1/19/2018
/ Decriminalization of Marijuana ,
Executive Orders ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Governors ,
Legislative Agendas ,
LGBTQ ,
Local Governance ,
Marijuana ,
Minimum Wage ,
Minority-Owned Businesses ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Pay Gap ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Sick Leave ,
State and Local Government ,
State Elections ,
State Labor Laws ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Women-Owned Businesses