On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued the Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity Executive Order (the “EO”), which revokes Executive Order 11246, a 60-year-old Civil Rights-era directive that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race,
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New Pay Transparency Laws Effective in 2025
Five states have joined the growing number of states with pay transparency laws requiring employers to include compensation information in job postings. An Illinois law and a Minnesota law took effect on January 1, 2025, and New Jersey, Vermont, and
New York Employers Required to Provide Paid Prenatal Leave
Pursuant to the New York Paid Prenatal Leave Law (the “PPL Law”), beginning on January 1, 2025, New York employers must provide employees with 20 hours of paid leave for prenatal healthcare service appointments during their pregnancy or related to
Federal District Court Vacates Biden’s DOL Overtime Rule
As discussed in our prior post, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule earlier this year that increased the salary thresholds required to classify certain employees as exempt from overtime pay requirements under the Fair Labor
It’s That Time Again: New California Workplace Laws for 2025
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed into law a number of employment-related assembly bills (“AB”) and senate bills (“SB”), once again altering the landscape of workplace regulation in California. With several key new laws taking effect as soon as January
NLRB General Counsel: “Make-Whole Relief” for Non-Competes and No More “Stay-or-Pay”
[Update: On February 14, 2025, Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board William B. Cowen issued General Counsel Memorandum 25-05, rescinding the guidance discussed in this blog post. To read more about state law updates on stay-or-pay
Is Your Workplace Election Ready? Voting Leave Laws Across the States
With Election Day just weeks away, employers should quickly brush up on laws that permit employees to take time off to vote. There is no federal law permitting time off to vote, but a majority of states and the District
California Joins Growing List of States Prohibiting Employer Action Against Employees Who Refuse Political or Religious Communications
Texas District Court Prohibits the FTC from Enforcing Its Non-Compete Ban Nationwide
Nationwide Injunction
On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada Brown of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Ryan LLC v. FTC, preventing the FTC from enforcing its proposed rule banning
EEOC Issues New Guidance on Workplace Harassment
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in April 2024 issued new enforcement guidance on harassment in the workplace, its first guidance on this subject in 25 years, superseding five earlier documents from the 1980s and 1990s. The new guidance