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Employers covered by OSHA’s recordkeeping rules should prepare now for the upcoming deadline to post the OSHA 300A Annual Summary of workplace injuries and illnesses. The required posting period runs from February 1 through...more
Unless exempt, California employers must post their annual summary of work-related injuries and illnesses in a visible and easily accessible location at each worksite from February 1 through April 30, 2026. Employers must use...more
Radio and television station employment units (SEUs) located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and New York with five or more full-time employees must prepare by Monday, February 2,...more
California employers will face new compliance requirements starting in 2026 involving pay transparency, stay or pay restrictions, WARN Act notices, pay data reporting, paid family leave eligibility, and new, mandatory...more
As the year winds down, HR teams juggle everything from holiday parties to payroll closeouts. But amid the festivities, it’s easy to overlook key compliance deadlines that occur at year’s end or early in the new year. Missing...more
Key Takeaways - Massachusetts recently enacted “An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency,” which requires covered employers to disclose reasonable, good-faith pay ranges in job postings and to provide pay ranges to...more
Amendments to the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA) and Temporary Schedule Change Act (TSCA) will take effect on Feb. 22, 2026. The changes expand employee rights and increase employers’ safe and sick...more
Starting on October 29, 2025, employers subject to Massachusetts’ Wage Transparency Act (formally known as An Act Relative to Salary Range Transparency) must include the applicable pay range in all job postings for positions...more
The last California legislative session ended on September 13, 2025 and Governor Newsom must sign or veto bills passed during the legislative session by October 13, 2025, or they will automatically become law. Here’s a brief...more
It’s that time of year again. Employers that meet the requirements of Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (“MAPFML”) law through a self-insured or third-party private plan administrator are required to renew their...more
October 1 is the deadline for broadcast stations licensed to communities in Alaska, American Samoa, Florida, Guam, Hawaii, Iowa, the Mariana Islands, Missouri, Oregon, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Washington to place...more
California lawmakers are considering several new employment bills ahead of the end of the 2025 legislative session that would impose new compliance obligations on employers. Here is a status report on employment-related...more
July 1 marked the effective date for three new laws that will create new rights for workers and new obligations for employers in Virginia: - Expansion of Non-Compete Ban – Virginia employers are now prohibited from...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is further postponing the compliance date requirements to display the FDIC official digital sign on an insured depository institution’s (IDI) digital channels, as well as on...more
Laws enacted at the end of 2024 made important changes to the ACA reporting requirements. The laws codified an alternative option for furnishing certain forms to individuals and authorized the IRS to issue new guidance on the...more
Under Massachusetts law, state employers are required to keep their workforce and new hires informed about the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law, including any updates in related benefits, protections and...more
Under British Columbia’s Pay Transparency Act, as of November 1, 2023, all B.C. employers are required to post wage and salary information on all of their public job postings....more
On June 14, 2023, House Bill (HB) No. 915—a bill the Texas Legislature passed on May 30, 2023—became law. As previously reported, HB 915 adds Chapter 104A, “Reporting Workplace Violence,” to the Texas Labor Code and...more
On May 30, 2023, the Texas Legislature sent legislation to Governor Greg Abbott that will require employers in Texas to post notice to employees about reporting instances of workplace violence or suspicious activity. The...more
Employers posting jobs to be filled in California must now include a pay range in the posting under new requirements that took effect at the beginning of 2023. Senate Bill (SB) 1162, which was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom...more
While pay discrimination laws have been around for quite some time, states and localities are increasingly taking pay discrimination a step further to affirmatively require employers to disclose compensation to applicants and...more
A new year brings new employment laws for California employers. California employers will want to begin revising employee policies and handbooks now, so that they are prepared to comply with these new laws when the majority...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Newsom signed the state’s pay transparency bill, SB 1162, into law, requiring employers with 15 or more employees to disclose pay ranges in job postings, beginning on January 1,...more
On September 27, 2022, California’s Governor signed S.B. 1162, making significant changes to California’s existing pay transparency and reporting laws and joining the growing trend of jurisdictions requiring companies to...more
California’s new pay transparency law will go into effect January 1, 2023. In addition to changes to employer reporting requirements, the new law requires employers of 15 or more people to include the pay scale for positions...more