Independent Contractor Rule, EEO-1 Reporting, and New York Labor Law Amendment - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
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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
Leadership and Innovation at the Illinois AG's Office — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
On July 1, 2025, Oregon’s automatic minimum wage increase for non-exempt employees will take effect. Under Oregon state law, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) calculates an annual increase to the minimum wage...more
Juan Maldonado v. D & A Building Services, Inc./Bridgefield Casualty Insurance Company, OJCC Case No.: 24-018373NPP - The claimant was injured in a workplace accident and subsequently hospitalized. Following the incident, the...more
Washington will soon join the growing list of states that require employers to give 60 days’ advance notice to employees, unions, and the state for certain mass layoffs and business closures. On May 13, 2025, Governor Bob...more
Call me an optimist — it is a much better alternative than being a pessimist or a “realist” with a pessimistic bent. So, let’s start by acknowledging the obvious. Businesses are operating in a volatile environment. The...more
Makins v. Palace Rehab & Care Ctr. and Premier Cadbury, LLC, No. A-2263-23 & A-2276-23 (April 24, 2025) - The petitioner’s legal dispute arose from a series of workers’ compensation claims related to injuries sustained during...more
What You Need to Know - The U.S. Department of Labor has announced it will no longer enforce the 2024 independent contractor rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), reverting to the more employer-friendly 2008...more
Recorded at the 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference, hosts Tina and Keely sit down with GSHRM leaders Tyler Clark and Brittany Goforth to explore the key conversations and trends shaping the human resources industry. From the use...more
With so much happening in the employee benefits world over the last few months, we bring you Benefits Catch-Up, our catch-up contribution to help you keep up with recent developments. Eversheds Sutherland’s US Employee...more
On April 3, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development proposed new rules under the New Jersey Administrative Code (“N.J.A.C.”) Section 12:11, which are designed to clarify the application of the “ABC test.”...more
Accounting businesses need people to serve Clients and grow. Some will hire full or part-time team members, subcontract and/or offshore their work....more
BALTIMORE—Bill Introduced to Address Housing Shortage- On Monday, Mayor Brandon Scott (D) introduced his Housing Options & Opportunity Act, which aims to expand zoning laws for multi-family homes and provide more housing...more
Holding a settlement agreement was a revised withdrawal liability assessment, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rejected a group of dairy companies’ petition to dismiss a pension fund’s claim to enforce a $39...more
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has previously indicated its intent to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan, and yesterday they took the first official step toward carrying it out....more
California Labor Code section 512 guarantees a thirty (30) minute, off-duty, meal period for employees after five (5) work hours, and a second thirty (30) minute, off duty, meal period after ten (10) work hours. Section 512...more
A recent court filing offers a reprieve to health plan sponsors in their efforts to comply with final regulations issued last year under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA)....more
California continues to police artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the workplace. Following proposed rulemaking on the use of AI for significant employment decisions, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan introduced Assembly Bill 1221...more
The CHNV Parole Program, a significant humanitarian initiative, allows nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV) to temporarily enter the United States. Designed to address urgent humanitarian needs, the...more
The Coalition for a Democratic Workplace (CDW) – an association of several hundred employers and employer associations – sent letters to US Attorney General Pam Bondi to direct the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to...more
On this episode of Culture & Compliance Chronicles, Amanda Raad and Nitish Upadhyaya from Ropes & Gray’s Insights Lab, and Richard Bistrong of Front-Line Anti-Bribery, are joined by Dina Denham Smith, an accomplished leader,...more
On May 1, 2025, the Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a Field Assistance Bulletin stepping back from a restrictive independent contractor rule issued under the Biden...more
The Department of Labor (DOL), together with the Departments of Treasury and Health and Human Services) have decided to suspend enforcement of certain provisions of the nonquantitative treatment limitations (NQTL) final...more
Within the last two months, both the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the armed services have followed Trump Administration directives to narrow or eliminate protections for transgender individuals....more
T. Rowe Price announced today the launch of in-plan emergency savings accounts (ESAs) for participants in retirement plans....more
As we discussed in a previous blog post, the Washington State minimum wage increased to $16.66 per hour on January 1, 2025. This new state wage also impacts the salary levels for the white-collar exemptions from the minimum...more
A recent change to New York labor law means employers will no longer face business-crippling lawsuits for minor frequency-of-pay mistakes, as long as they have not previously been found to have violated the state’s...more
