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IRS Provides Critical Transition Relief for New Tips and Overtime Reporting Requirements: What HR Needs to Know Now

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The clock is ticking on 2025 payroll reporting, but the IRS just threw employers a lifeline. If your organization has been struggling to understand how to implement the new tips and overtime reporting requirements from the...more

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The Seven Year Itch: Recent Guidance on the Massachusetts Noncompetition Act

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The Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (MNAA) took effect in October 2018, imposing certain statutory requirements for noncompete provisions to be enforceable. When the statute became law, many eagerly awaited case...more

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Federal Appeals Court Sends “BLM” Case Back to Labor Board: What This Means for Workplace Policies

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The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals just handed employers a significant win yesterday by vacating a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) decision involving an employee who displayed the letters “BLM” (for “Black Lives...more

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Massachusetts High Court Clarifies Retention Bonuses Are Not Wages: What Employers Should Do Now

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Retention bonuses – which are payments conditioned on continued employment through a fixed date – are not “wages” under the Massachusetts Wage Act, even when all contingencies have been met, according to the Massachusetts...more

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Voters Pass More Wage Hikes in Portland, Maine: Everything Employers Must Know

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Voters in Portland, Maine, just approved a ballot measure that will gradually increase the city’s minimum wage to $19 per hour by 2028. Here’s everything businesses operating in the city need to know about the changes before...more

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Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – November 2025

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FAR Part 19 Shake-Up: What It Means for Your Contracts, Your Team, and Your Bottom Line - Significant revisions to FAR Part 19 will reshape how the federal government engages with small business government contractors, and...more

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Rochester, NY Expands Protections for Immigrants, Reproductive Autonomy, and the LGBTQIA+ Community

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On August 26, 2025, the Rochester City Council voted unanimously to strengthen the city’s long-standing sanctuary city policy, adopting Ordinance No. 2025-283. The measure, formally adopted on August 27, 2025, amends the...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

Recent Court Decisions Limit NLRB’s Authority to Award Expanded Remedies

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Traditionally, it has been understood that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) limits the remedies it issues to equitable forms of relief. In practice, this meant that employees who lost their jobs due to violations of...more

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Lyft Pays $19.4 Million to NJ Attorney General’s Office for Driver Misclassification

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The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has announced that Lyft has paid off the $19.4 million it owed to the state for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors....more

Littler

New York Mandatory Employee Retirement Program to be Implemented After Years of Delays

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After considerable delay, employer registration for the New York State Secure Choice Savings Program (“New York Secure Choice” or “the Program”) is now open. New York Secure Choice—which was established in 2021 by New York...more

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DHS Ends Automatic Work Authorization Extensions

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On October 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule ending the automatic extension of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for certain renewal applicants. This change...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

New York City Amends Paid Safe and Sick Leave Law to Expand Permissible Uses and Require Additional Leave Time, Effective February...

On September 25, 2025, the New York City Council passed Int. No. 780-A, amending both the Earned Sick and Safe Time Act (ESSTA) (Sections 20-912 et seq. of the N.Y.C. Administrative Code), governing the provision of paid safe...more

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A Trump-Era Guide for European Employers

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Under the new Trump administration, multinational employers are no longer preparing for change—they are operating in it. From anti-diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) crackdowns to tariff tensions and talent mobility...more

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COVID Claims and Career Dreams Collide with Legal Reality in Recent 3rd Dept. Cases

The Appellate Division handed down two decisions on Oct. 30: 1. Angelo v. Southwestern Central School: The 3rd Dept. is still dealing with COVID-19 cases. Here, a school custodian filed a claim and The Board concluded there...more

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Tracking the 2025 US Government Shutdown (Updated)

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Read our latest updates on the US Government shutdown. Previous insights - Government Shutdown Update: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - At 36 days, the government shutdown has now become the longest in U.S. history....more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Massachusetts Court Rules Retention Bonuses Are Not Wages – Key Implications for M&A Transactions

On October 22, 2025, in Nunez v. Syncsort Incorporated, et al., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed the decision of the Massachusetts appellate court (and consistent with the position of federal courts) that...more

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Agencies Clarify How Certain Fertility Benefits May Be Treated as Excepted Benefits

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The Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) (collectively, the “Agencies”) recently released FAQs about Implementation of the Affordable Care Act Part 72, which...more

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HL UK Pensions Law Digest 5 November 2025

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Collective defined contribution (CDC): expansion to unconnected employers and retirement-only pensions...more

Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP

Massachusetts Superior Court Holds that Parent Companies Cannot Enforce Noncompetition Obligations Against Their Subsidiaries’...

On September 11, 2025, Judge Debra A. Squires-Lee of the Massachusetts Superior Court held that a parent company cannot enforce a noncompetition provision against the employee of one of its subsidiaries....more

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Eighth Circuit holding on LMRA preemption of state law employment discrimination claims: It substantially depends

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In King v. UPS, decided on September 25, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a plaintiff’s race and age discrimination claims, as well as his hostile work...more

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What Are Compliance Risks? Risk Types, Areas & How to Manage

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Addressing the many compliance risk areas with a standardized taxonomy is critical for risk and compliance leaders for several reasons. First, defining compliance risks using the standardized Risk Categories and Risk Types...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

Injunctive Relief in Employment Litigation: Protecting Your Business When Time Is Critical

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When an employee departs, especially to join a competitor or start a competitive venture, the risk to the employer’s confidential information and customer relationships can be immediate. In those moments, time is not a...more

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Mass Dismissal Notification Failures Render Collective Redundancies Invalid, European Court of Justice Rules

On October 30, 2025, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued two decisions interpreting European Union law regulating mass dismissals, or “collective redundancies,” ruling that technical mistakes or noncompliance with...more

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German Labor Court Expands Employer Rights to Scrutinize Dismissed Employees’ Job Applications

When an employee in Germany is unlawfully dismissed and successfully challenges the dismissal in court, the employee is generally entitled under Section 615 sentence 1 of the German Civil Code (BGB) to back pay for the period...more

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Client Alert: Guidance on Educating Employees Turning 65 About Health Coverage Options

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As employees approach age 65, it is important to provide them with clear, neutral information about their health coverage options—specifically, the choice between remaining on a company’s group health plan or enrolling in...more

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