President Donald Trump removed Democratic U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) commissioners Charlotte A. Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels, upending the Democratic voting majority on the EEOC. ...more
President Donald Trump removed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Gwynne Wilcox in a move that leaves the Board without a quorum to hear cases. The president also, as expected, discharged NLRB general counsel...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel (GC) has issued a memorandum explaining her view on how employers can balance compliance with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and equal employment opportunity...more
The U.S. Department of Education warned National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) schools that payments to athletes for the use of their names, images, and likenesses (NIL) implicate the gender equal opportunity...more
1/17/2025
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On January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States held that employers need only demonstrate that an employee is exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by a...more
1/16/2025
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EMD Sales Inc v Carrera ,
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Wage and Hour
On January 2, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reinstated the New York Reproductive Health Bias Law’s requirement that New York State employers include a notice in their employee handbooks regarding the...more
New for January 1, 2025, Ohio has streamlined its unemployment insurance reporting process to allow employers that control multiple corporate entities to report unemployment insurance for their concurrent employees in a...more
Wildfires continue to rage across the Los Angeles area, causing death, massive destruction of property, and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. President Biden has approved a “Major Disaster Declaration” for...more
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee’s recent finding that a National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) rule limiting the years of eligibility for college athletes who previously attended a...more
A wave of new state legislation ready to take effect on January 1, 2025, will reshape employment law across the United States, introducing crucial updates on paid family leave, anti-discrimination protections, workplace...more
12/31/2024
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As the life sciences industry prepares for 2025, employers must navigate a landscape marked by evolving employment laws, heightened pay transparency requirements, and ongoing scrutiny of workplace diversity, equity, and...more
Employment discrimination against individuals with or perceived to have family caregiving responsibilities will soon be unlawful in Illinois under a law set to take effect on January 1, 2025....more
On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) published new guidance for healthcare providers on what information to provide patients seeking childbirth- and pregnancy-related workplace...more
A federal appellate court has ruled that a New Jersey law regulating recreational marijuana use does not grant job applicants the right to sue employers that rescind job offers after positive pre-employment drug tests for...more
The Los Angeles City Council has approved raising the minimum wage rate for hotel and airport workers to $22.50 per hour by July 2025, with yearly increases until the rate reaches $30.00 per hour by July 2028....more
California employers will soon be able to more easily obtain temporary restraining orders (TROs) to protect employees from harassment before conduct has escalated to acts of violence or credible threats of violence under a...more
On December 10, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) restored the “clear and unmistakable” waiver standard for evaluating whether an employer made unlawful unilateral changes without first giving the union notice...more
The State of New York has adopted a first-in-the-nation requirement that employers provide twenty hours of paid leave per year as a stand-alone leave benefit for pregnant employees. ...more
On November 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced that its planned new monthly employment data collection form for federal contractors and subcontractors...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is appealing a U.S. district judge’s recent ruling striking down the agency’s final rule “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales,...more
12/2/2024
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Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
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Over-Time ,
Salaried Employees ,
Threshold Requirements ,
Vacated ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
On November 25, 2024, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that a former chief operating officer (COO) at a medical fee collection company did not breach noncompete agreements and a nondisclosure provision when she took a job...more
11/27/2024
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Retail employers are bracing for the annual surge in customer traffic and sales during the holidays, but the large crowds, stress of the season, and other factors increase the risks of workplace violence. As the holiday...more
Businesses that had employees working in Lower Manhattan and Western Brooklyn when the September 11th attacks occurred may need to notify those employees of their potential eligibility for benefits under two federal...more
California’s Proposition 32 would have immediately raised the state minimum wage for employees with twenty-six or more employees to $17.00 per hour immediately and to $18.00 per hour on January 1, 2025. Proposition 32 also...more
On November 18, 2024, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed statewide pay transparency legislation that will require employers, beginning in June 2025, to disclose compensation and benefits in job postings and notices of...more