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New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed NY Senate Bill S3460 (A.2107) on September 9, 2026. The new statute, which will become effective on November 8, 2026, gives current and former employees throughout New York State the...
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently issued two opinion letters addressing how the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applies to employee travel time in modern work arrangements. Together...
Employers are usually familiar with the language of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which allows an employer to decline to provide requested accommodation to an individual with a disability if the...
On August 5, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (whose rulings apply to all employers in Maryland and Virginia) issued an opinion vacating a lower court’s ruling that unpaid leave was a reasonable...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) spent most of 2025 without a quorum. Recently, the Senate confirmed additional members, clearing the way for the Board to finally start issuing potentially precedent-setting (or...
Most public or quasi-public statutory authorities owe constitutional due process and mandatory hearing rights to individual physicians before terminating employment for cause. But what about privately owned medical...
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (EFAA) prevents enforcement of arbitration agreements in cases alleging conduct constituting a sexual harassment dispute. But what if an...
The nation’s 250th birthday provides the opportunity to examine the state of our national affairs and how it has changed in the last decade. Many students of government will point to the numerous and profound changes...
On August 12, a federal district court dismissed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) subpoena enforcement action against Nike at the EEOC’s request. The EEOC said Nike had provided it with the...
An unusual, bipartisan coalition of House members voted to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA), a law that would impose fast-track bargaining schedules for initial contracts and could end in having government...
With James Macy’s confirmation, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finally has a three-member Republican majority. The management community hopes this reconstituted NLRB will mitigate or reverse many of the pro...
On August 4, 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the latest settlement challenging employers’ PERM recruiting processes. OpenAI and its subsidiary Statsig LLC agreed to settle allegations that they violated...
On August 21, 2026, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rules rescinding the Office of Contract Compliance Program’s (OFCCP) regulations for Executive Order (EO) 11246, substantially revising Section 503...
On August 11, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) held a public hearing on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to rescind the EEO-1 through EEO-6 workforce demographic data collection and...
Democratic Socialists to the left, MAGA Republicans to the right—on we plunge, like Tennyson’s Light Brigade, toward to political calamity. Those of us who toil in the fields of work, know that, one way or another, we’ve...
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