On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted, 3 to 2, to ban nearly all noncompete agreements. The ban is scheduled to become effective on September 4, 2024. Whether the rule will become effective remains...
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On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-delayed final rule—Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees...
Earlier this year the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released statistics on its child labor enforcement activity for 2023. Astonishingly, WHD found an 88% increase since 2019 in the unlawful...
During the Biden administration, an ambitious and aggressive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued several precedent-breaking rulings addressing issues as broad as protected speech and union representation to...
In early May, employers had a chance to hear from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Acting Director Michele Hodge and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Vice Chair Jocelyn Samuels at...
On April 30, 2024, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced the release of a new artificial intelligence (AI) landing page. Following the link, the OFCCP provides 10 FAQs following by...
On April 29, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final harassment guidance, updating the previous version with Bostock, #MeToo, and remote work issues. The most controversial guidance...
However the current era is characterized by future historians, political commentators will have to consider our piece of time as one that shifted the center of power from the Imperial Presidency to the Omnipotent...
On January 29, 2024—the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—the Biden administration announced a proposed regulation to prohibit federal contractors and subcontractors from using a job...
During the Biden administration, no executive agency has been more active and aggressive in pursuing the president’s pro-union agenda than the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Long recognized as perhaps the most...
In a ruling with significant implications for suits challenging diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and other similar programs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 17 that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964...
Two federal district courts have held the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) administrative law courts—which enforce the laws prohibiting discrimination against work-authorized immigrants—are unconstitutional. In March...
On Monday, April 15, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) regulations, which were published in the Federal Register on April 19 and will become...
On March 29, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published revisions to federal data that covered entities must collect on race and ethnicity. Principally, the new revisions would add Middle Eastern and North...
As we finish the first quarter of 2024, Congress and the Biden administration continue to focus on regulating artificial intelligence (AI). Despite that attention, however, no comprehensive legislation or regulations...