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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...
On June 25, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Mullin v. Doe, in which the Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with the termination of temporary protected status (TPS) designations...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) continues to signal that pregnancy discrimination and pregnancy accommodation practices remain important agency enforcement concerns. First, on June 4, 2026, the EEOC...
You read the headline right: Despite 27 workplace violations, a three-judge panel from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appeals court for Texas) decided the employee still gets to take her Americans...
Recently, a Massachusetts superior court jury awarded $4.75 million to an employee in a case against her former employer, Wayfair. The verdict has become one of the most significant employment law developments for...
Private employers sometimes have questions about firearms at work. Can a private employer prohibit employees from carrying firearms and other weapons on its premises, including those with a valid concealed-carry permit...
On July 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new opinion letter analyzing whether travel time between an employee’s home and work would be considered compensable under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)...
What Jannica Church was expecting to be a normal visit to Arby’s turned into the beginning of her development of herpes. What many customers were expecting to be a normal Taco Bell experience ended up leaving them with...
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Q We have a paid-time-off (PTO) policy that combines sick and vacation time, with no separate bank for paid sick leave. Can we require the use of PTO for all reasons, like pregnancy, serious health conditions, etc., and...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has raised the optional standard mileage rate for business use of an automobile for the second half of 2026. Effective July 1, the business mileage rate increased from 72.5 cents per...
Q We have a paid-time-off (PTO) policy that combines sick and vacation time, with no separate bank for paid sick leave. Can we require the use of PTO for all types of reasons, like pregnancy, serious health conditions...
A serious workplace incident rarely ends with the incident itself. For many employers, the next challenge arrives when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) begins asking questions. The steps taken...
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