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On January 21, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.” Consisting of eight sections, it takes the position that...
President Donald Trump campaigned on the issue of illegal immigration, promising to carry out large-scale deportations of undocumented individuals if elected. He is following through on that pledge, and employers are now...
In his first few weeks in office, President Donald Trump has demonstrated that one of his key policy initiatives is the elimination of what some call “gender ideology,” or the recognition of gender identities other than...
Q We have an employee who recently passed away. He wasn’t married, didn’t have a will, and didn’t have company life insurance or death benefits. How do we handle his final paycheck? Do we continue with our regular...
The concept of DEI—which stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion—is much in the headlines recently. Matters came to a head on January 21 when President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) styled “Ending...
Corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are leading to all sorts of trouble for Texas employers. For just one such court case, read on. Good intentions lead to . . . Broken Hill Proprietary is an energy...
Employers know that locating terminated vested participants and beneficiaries owed benefits under a retirement plan can be difficult—in part because people move, change jobs, and will forget they may have a balance or...
Mar 01, 2025 · Employment Law Letter
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The California Labor Code has a streamlined labor commissioner process in which employee wage claims can be raised and determined, and the losing party has a right to appeal to the superior court. The process has its own...
A newly enacted provision in the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) says an agreement to arbitrate sexual harassment disputes is unenforceable. However, in a recent case from the California Court of Appeal, an employer and...
President Donald Trump began his second term fulfilling major parts of his domestic agenda: banning immigration, pardoning insurrectionists, and remaking the federal workforce, including all those who do work for the...
The Biden administration withdrew a number of regulations designed to achieve many of its social policy goals, from expanding access to contraceptives to protections for the LGBTQ+ community. All of the regulations drew...
Based on the first Trump administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is expected to substantially decrease its enforcement efforts, including litigation against employers. EEOC Commissioner Andrea...
Because the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was the most aggressively pro-union and most precedent-breaking agency of the Biden administration, it will almost certainly be the one most altered by the Trump...
Although the first Trump administration didn’t substantially affect Executive Order 11246 or the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the backlash against affirmative action and diversity, equity, and...
On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court in E.M.D. Sales, Inc. v. Carrera rejected a heightened standard of proof for showing employees are exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Court’s...
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