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(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Employment Law Updates: What’s Changing in 2025
California Employment News – Key Employment Law Updates: What’s Changing in 2025
On February 19, 2025, Judge James Wesley Hendrix for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a 90-day stay of ongoing litigation, challenging a Biden-era rule implementing significant...more
Skilled immigration is making headlines with renewed focus on the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program, the most popular employment-based visa for foreign professional workers. Recent statements by Trump advisors Elon Musk and...more
Did the 2023 update to the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts, which apply to contractors and subcontractors performing on certain federally funded or assisted contracts, appropriately modernize or unduly expand the Davis Bacon...more
On August 23, 2023, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule updating regulations issued under the Davis-Bacon Act. This is the DOL’s first comprehensive update to the Davis-Bacon Act regulations in...more
On August 8, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published final rules changing the method by which prevailing wages will be calculated for federally funded construction projects. The final rules were adopted after publication...more
On August 8, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Final Rule overhauling the Davis Bacon Act (DBA) regulations governing the prevailing wages for construction workers performing work on federal contracts. The...more
Welcome to Construction & Claims, a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving construction news, claims, bid protests, contract administration and payment-related disputes....more
The 2023 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly, which concluded on June 7, 2023, was not as groundbreaking as other recent legislative sessions, Many far-reaching bills that emerged from committee were not...more
We have posted two previous articles about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee. In addition to the bills that we have already...more
Michigan has reinstated its prevailing wage law, which requires the payment of wages to employees working on state-funded projects at the “prevailing wage in the locality.” This requirement was previously in place from 1965...more
Over the past couple of years, multiple states have enacted pay transparency laws with the goal of increasing wage transparency for job seekers. The objective of these laws is ultimately to achieve pay equality as job...more
We had originally written about employment-related legislation from the 2022 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly in the aftermath of the conclusion of the session. The Aftermath: Developments from the 2022...more
The 2022 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly concluded on May 4, 2022. While not as groundbreaking as the two last full legislative sessions, and while many far-reaching bills that emerged from committee were...more
We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity of approving and advancing bills out of committee. In addition to the bills that we have already summarized, here...more
On March 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, calling for the most sweeping revisions to the rules governing Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) enforcement since...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently announced that it is taking steps in furtherance of the Biden Administration’s stated aim to increase workers’ wages. - On Friday March 11, the DOL announced that it will...more
On Thursday, October 7, 2021, three years after Michigan’s prevailing wage law was repealed, prevailing wage has been reinstated for certain state contracts. ...more
The 2021 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly concluded on June 9, 2021, and this office provided a summary of relevant employment related legislation. Subsequently, a “Special Session” took place and...more
The 2021 Regular Session of the Connecticut General Assembly concluded on June 9, 2021. While not as groundbreaking as the last full legislative session in 2019, important bills regarding public sector union rights, racial...more
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and some state wage laws contain provisions that impose criminal penalties on violators. These provisions, once rarely used, are taking on new life as government officials have...more
Our two prior blog posts, found here and here, covered the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity of approving and advancing bills out of committee. In addition to the bills that...more
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that it plans to comply with a new U.S. district court order ruling that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to engage in the proper rule-making process...more
In the November 2019 election Virginia gained a Democratic “trifecta”—both legislative chambers and the governorship are now controlled by one political party. It has been over two decades since Democratic lawmakers...more