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• The 2025–26 New York state budget includes significant amendments to the New York Labor Law, impacting wage-and-hour enforcement, liquidated damages, and child labor penalties.
• The amendments bring long-awaited clarity to New York pay frequency claims, including interest-only

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• The proposed New York State Fast Food Franchisor Accountability Act would make fast-food restaurant franchisors jointly and severally liable for violations of Chapter 31 of the New York Labor Law, as well as the New York State Human

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• Some states have changed their laws regulating child labor in the past two years.
• Overtime and minimum wage laws typically apply to part-time, seasonal workers.
• Seven states (California, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington) have a heat

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• Minnesota’s legislative session will conclude with an omnibus bill introducing significant proposed changes to labor and employment laws, with more developments expected by the end of the session on May 19, 2025.
• A provision in the omnibus bill

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• The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas recently ruled that an employer breached a duty of loyalty to plan participants by permitting an investment manager to invest retirement assets in holdings based on nonpecuniary environmental,

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DOL to Rescind 2024 Independent Contractor Regulation? The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is backing away from the Biden-era independent contractor regulation finalized in January 2024. More specifically, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has issued guidance (Field Assistance…

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• The Immigrant Visa (IV) Scheduling Status Tool provides foreign nationals clarity regarding the month and year that recently scheduled immigrant visa (IV) interviews became “documentarily complete” (fees paid and all documents received).
• The Global Visa Wait Times Tool

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