Effective October 1, 2024, Maryland will become the sixth state (plus the District of Columbia), to require that employers provide an upfront disclosure of the wage or salary range for open positions in job listings. The new...more
5/9/2024
/ Disclosure Requirements ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Ads ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
New Legislation ,
New Regulations ,
Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Transparency ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
On January 31, 2024, several U.S. government agencies released proposals and guidance aimed at imposing new pay transparency and salary history requirements upon federal government contractors and subcontractors. These...more
On January 12, 2024, District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Wage Transparency Omnibus Amendment Act of 2023, which broadens D.C.’s existing pay transparency laws and requires employers in D.C. to list salary and...more
On November 22, 2023, Governor Kathy Hochul of New York State signed into law the “Freelance Isn’t Free Act” (“Act”), which was modeled after a similar law passed in New York City in 2017. The state law becomes effective on...more
On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (along with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. the University of North...more
6/30/2023
/ Affirmative Action ,
Civil Rights Act ,
College Admissions ,
Diversity ,
Educational Institutions ,
Equal Protection ,
Fourteenth Amendment ,
Race Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard College ,
Students for Fair Admissions v University of North Carolina ,
Title VII
On May 26, 2023, New York City Mayor Eric Adams signed into law a bill that expands the protections offered by the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL). Effective November 22, 2023, the NYCHRL will prohibit discrimination...more
So far in 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) has been at the leading edge of the technological revolution, as the potential applications for tools like ChatGPT have drawn considerable buzz. In April 2023, we reported on New...more
On April 25, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued an updated self-identification form for applicants and current employees to voluntarily self-identify as an individual with a disability. ...more
On April 6, 2023, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued its final rule interpreting the City’s Local Law 144 regulating the use of "automated employment decision tools," which went into effect...more
4/20/2023
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Bias ,
City of New York ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
Popular
On March 1, 2023, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a Final Rule rescinding a prior rule the agency published late in the Trump administration that broadened the scope of Executive Order...more
To ring in the 2023 new year, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has taken multiple actions targeting the use of non-compete agreements, all of which are consistent with President Biden’s July 2021 Executive Order on...more
Following New York City’s enactment of a pay transparency ordinance on November 1, 2022, New York State has enacted a similar requirement for employers to list a range of compensation in advertisements for job, promotion, or...more
On November 21, 2022, OFCCP proposed a new Scheduling Letter and Itemized Listing that will greatly increase the amount and specificity of documents and information that federal government contractors must provide in...more
On November 8, 2022, Washington, D.C. voters approved Initiative 82, which will eliminate the ability of employers in the city to rely on a tip credit to meet the minimum wage requirement for employees who regularly receive...more
On November 1, 2022, job postings for positions in New York City – including remote positions that can be performed in New York City – must include a salary range listing the minimum and maximum salary or hourly wage amounts...more
11/2/2022
/ City of New York ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Ads ,
Job Applicants ,
Labor Reform ,
Local Ordinance ,
New Regulations ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Pay Transparency ,
Wage and Hour
As we previously reported, on August 26, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision narrowing the nationwide injunction against the COVID-19 vaccination mandate for federal contractor employees...more
10/19/2022
/ Biden Administration ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Emergency Management Plans ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Mandates ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Employees ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Vaccinations ,
Workplace Safety
On August 26, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited decision in the federal government’s appeal of a lower court order striking down the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate for...more
The District of Columbia Council passed the Non-Compete Clarification Act of 2022 (“Act”) in late July 2022, setting standards for how and when employers can use and enforce covenants not to compete. The Act notably clarifies...more
In March 2022, we reported on a controversial directive issued by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) that appeared to assert, for the first time, that federal contractors and subcontractors are...more
In a July 28, 2022 e-mail communication, OFCCP emphasized the need for federal government contractors to certify their compliance with the affirmative action plan (AAP) requirements of Executive Order 11246 through OFCCP’s...more
On June 7, 2022, the D.C. Council approved a bill that limits an employer’s ability to test for cannabis. Under the Cannabis Employment Protections Amendment Act, most D.C. employers may not fire, fail to hire, or take other...more
On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In Dobbs, the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s abortion restrictions making most abortion...more
7/6/2022
/ Abortion ,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Protection ,
Federal v State Law Application ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Patient Access ,
Pregnancy ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Roe v Wade ,
SCOTUS ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour
On May 20, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released its Corporate Scheduling Announcement List (CSAL), which identifies 400 federal supply and service contractor and subcontractor...more
Maryland recently joined nine other states (and the District of Columbia) in providing employees in the state with a right to paid family and medical leave. Although employer contributions to the paid family and medical...more
On March 31, 2022, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued its second Directive, No. 2022-02, of the Biden Administration. The new Directive implements both procedural and substantive changes to...more