Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 46: The 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference with Tyler Clark and Brittany Goforth of GSHRM
Independent Contractor Rule, EEO-1 Reporting, and New York Labor Law Amendment - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Navigating Contractor vs. Employee Classification
(Podcast) California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
Navigating the Maze: eDiscovery Essentials for Employers — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 45: New Leadership at Employment-Related Federal Agencies with David Dubberly of Maynard Nexsen
Trade Secrets on Trial: Strategic Decisions for the Courtroom - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Labor, Employment, and Benefits
Employee Rights in Non-Unionized Workplaces: What's the Tea in L&E?
The Changing Landscape of EEOC Enforcement and Disparate Impact
Quick Update on Pay Transparency Requirements
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 44: Conducting Effective Workplace Investigations with Kimberly Hewitt and Antwan Lofton of Duke University
Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 1: Independent Contractors vs. Employees
Update on the State of Non-compete Restrictions (LaborSpeak)
The Labor Law Insider: How Unions Are Navigating Trump 2.0, Part II
Ensuring Success with Executive Agreements
100 Days In: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday®
The Evolution of Equal Pay: Lessons From 9 to 5 — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Managing the Compliance-HR Relationship
The Rise of OTA in Defense Contracting, Part 4: Capitalizing on Consortia - In this final blog of PilieroMazza’s blog series, “The Rise of OTA in Defense Contracting,” we discuss DOD’s authority to award OTs to consortia...more
The South Korean Supreme Court recently ruled that bonus payment can be conditioned on the employee remaining employed on the payment date, resolving an issue that had been left unclear in a prior decision. ...more
Kansas has recently joined the expanding list of jurisdictions to pass or introduce legislation related to restrictive covenants. Except this time, the legislation substantially modifies the state’s approach to restrictive...more
As we explained in a previous blog post, last fall, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the New York Retail Worker Safety Act (NYRWSA) into law, obligating employers to provide certain safety measures for retail workers by early...more
A case currently before the Michigan Supreme Court could put employers’ ability to contractually shorten the statute of limitations for employment-related civil rights claims in jeopardy. Under current Michigan law an...more
Below, we catalog certain current state laws regulating the development and use of AI systems and technologies passed between 2019 and 2025. This list focuses on legislative initiatives that have passed and are in effect or...more
The race to remake portions of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) and to prevent expiration of certain Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) provisions has begun, with House Ways & Means Committee proposals (the Markup) to spend...more
Seyfarth recently hosted a webinar entitled ‘Managing Cross-Border Sexual Harassment Investigations in Australia and Asia’, addressing the practical considerations that employers should be aware of when investigating...more
The rise of artificial intelligence has brought both opportunities and challenges to the workplace. However, a growing trend of employees using free or unauthorized AI tools poses significant risks, from security breaches to...more
On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice ("the DOJ" or "the Department") unveiled its new playbook for prosecuting white-collar and corporate crime. DOJ announced enforcement priorities for the Criminal Division ("the...more
Globalization continues to transform workplaces into vibrant intersections of cultures and practices. Yet with this richness comes complexity: Cross-cultural misunderstandings can easily escalate into disputes when legal...more
The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) current approach to corporate criminal enforcement has come into focus with the issuance of a new White-Collar Enforcement Plan and several revised policy documents. The changes, which...more
In the evening hours of May 14, 2025, the Missouri Senate passed House Bill 567 (the Bill) which effectively repeals the requirements of Proposition A. The Senate adopted the House version of the Bill without adding any...more
On April 21, 2025, a California Court of Appeal held employees working six hours or less in a single workday can prospectively waive their mandatory meal periods. The ruling provided clarification on a long-standing question:...more
Look, I get it. There are a lot of lawyers out there. Ambulance chasers, courtroom showmen, legal eagles with late-night TV spots and suspiciously white teeth. But here’s the thing: I’m not one of them....more
In its April 17 decision in Cunningham v. Cornell University, the U.S. Supreme Court established a plaintiff-friendly standard for ERISA prohibited transaction claims, resolving a circuit court split. As a result, plan...more
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), through its Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate (FDNS), regularly conducts unannounced site visits to employers who sponsor foreign workers. If your...more
The US Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (together, the Departments) filed a motion to suspend the litigation proceedings in The ERISA Industry Committee vs. HHS et al. on May 9, 2025 while the...more
Restrictive covenants are unquestionably a significant deal consideration in M&A transactions. In the private equity context, a buyer is focused on restrictive covenants to protect its investment by binding the sellers and...more
A federal district court in Illinois became the first court to rule that an employer’s credit for a prior partial withdrawal should be applied at the end of the statute’s “waterfall” for calculating withdrawal liability. The...more
In a major shift, New York employers will now be subject to significantly reduced damages in "frequency-of-pay" lawsuits due to recent amendments to Section 198(1-a) of the New York Labor Law ("NYLL")....more
The New York legislature may soon pass the “No Severance Ultimatums Act,” which would require all employment severance agreements except those negotiated through collective bargaining to include (1) a 21-business day review...more
As an update to our previous post, the EEOC’s request for a non-substantive change to remove the option for employers to voluntarily report non-binary data on the EEO-1 data collection has been approved without change....more
The Department of State released the June 2025 Visa Bulletin and USCIS has confirmed they will accept the Final Action Dates chart for employment-based Adjustment of Status applications. The Final Action Dates chart notes...more
After meeting with former University of Alabama football coach and seven-time national champion Nick Saban, President Trump is considering forming a college sports commission and issuing an executive order to establish...more