Mid-Year Labor & Employment Law Update: Key Developments and Compliance Strategies
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Gag Clause Prohibitions
DOL Restructures: OFCCP on the Chopping Block as Opinion Letters Expand - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Forfeitures Under Fire
Independent Contractor Rule, EEO-1 Reporting, and New York Labor Law Amendment - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Navigating Contractor vs. Employee Classification
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 45: New Leadership at Employment-Related Federal Agencies with David Dubberly of Maynard Nexsen
Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 1: Independent Contractors vs. Employees
Non-Competes Eased, Anti-DEI Rule Blocked, Contractor Rule in Limbo - Employment Law This Week® - #WorkforceWednesday®
#WorkforceWednesday®: New DOL Leadership, NLRB Quorum, EEOC Enforcement Priorities - Employment Law This Week®
The Labor Law Insider: What's Next for Labor Law Under the Trump Administration, Part I
The Implications of President Trump's EO on Gender Ideology: What's the Tea in L&E?
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Agencies Begin Compliance Efforts Under Trump Administration - Employment Law This Week®
Fostering Teamwork: Lessons From the Dynamic Duo of Monsters, Inc. — Hiring to Firing Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday®: Employment Law Changes Under President Trump - Employment Law This Week®
Employment Law Now VIII-158 - DEI Developments and Executive Coaching
Now Is the Time to Conduct I-9 Audits: What's the Tea in L&E?
Employment Law Now VIII-157 - Top 5 L&E Issues to Watch in 2025
Constangy Clips Ep. 6 - Federal Court Blocks DOL Rule: What Employers Need to Know
The Labor Law Insider - Elections Have Consequences: Labor Law Changes Anticipated Under Trump Administration, Part II
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published over two dozen proposed rules in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025, marking a sweeping regulatory initiative that impacts multiple industries. Although...more
President Donald Trump signed H.R. 1, “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBBA), on July 4. The OBBBA affects a wide range of workplace issues, including immigration, benefits, and employment tax liabilities. Below is only a brief...more
Now that the June 2 effective date for New York’s landmark retail safety law is here, the state Department of Labor has released model policy and training materials to help you with your compliance efforts. New York retailers...more
Last year, the New York Retail Worker Safety Act was signed into law. The Act will take effect on June 2, after which New York-based retail employers will be faced with new internal policy and training requirements for...more
California employers face new compliance updates in 2025, including the expiration of most COVID-19 prevention regulations, a mandatory whistleblower notice posting, and an updated state withholding allowance...more
Once again, employers are required to submit OSHA Forms 300, 301 and 300A online via OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA)....more
Effective June 1, 2025, employers that employ more than 100 employees at a single warehouse distribution center or more than 1,000 employees at one or more warehouse distribution centers within New York must establish an...more
Did you keep up with all the workplace law updates in 2024? Take our quiz to see if you can score a perfect 10 or need to do some catch-up work. After jotting down your answers, use the answer key at the end (no peeking!) to...more
New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently added to the New York State Labor Law by signing a bill titled “the New York Retail Worker Safety Act” (“RWSA”). The State Legislature crafted the RWSA to promote retail worker safety...more
On September 4, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Retail Worker Safety Act (the "Act") into law. The Act, which takes effect on March 3, 2025, requires retail employers to develop and implement programs to prevent...more
Last week, New York enacted the Retail Worker Safety Act. Now, retail employers with ten or more employees will be required to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence. Furthermore, it directs the...more
Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report! As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more
The Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Labor announced on November 10, 2021, that his department will not adopt or enforce the new OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard for COVID-19 protection and prevention issued...more
New York employers must take immediate steps to comply with statutory requirements aimed at preventing the spread of infectious disease in the workplace. As previously reported, in May New York State passed the NY HERO Act,...more
On April 20, 2021, OSHA issued new guidance on when employers must report instances in which an employee suffers an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccination. According to the guidance, employers who require their employees...more
Upon taking office, President Joe Biden, through an executive order, instructed the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to review prior guidance on the availability of an individual to receive unemployment benefits if the...more
On January 21, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Protecting Health Safety instructing the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in the U.S. Department of Labor to publish updated...more
On January 21, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.’s second day in office, he issued “Executive Order On Protecting Worker Health and Safety,” which directed the Department of Labor (“DOL”) and Occupational Health and Safety...more
On January 29, 2021, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published new guidance on mitigating and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. In a press release announcing the new guidance,...more
Should You Consider Clear Masks and Other Accommodations for the Hard of Hearing? At the end of January Nike agreed to a settlement requiring its California workers to be provided with clear masks. The settlement was reached...more
Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday. This week, we look at a new COVID-19 quarantine timeline and stricter workplace safety regulations in California. CDC Permits Shortened Quarantine Periods The Centers for Disease Control and...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has put unprecedented strain on organizations of all sizes across all industries. The uncertainty of the “new normal” is forcing employers all over the world to consider various new policies as workers...more
Who Needs to Know - Employers who are reopening (or have already reopened) and bringing employees back to their workplaces – or restructuring their workforces as a result of changing business conditions related to the...more
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we have been talking about things to do to keep your employees safe and what laws apply in that arena. Recently, OSHA started handing out fines to companies for employee outbreaks...more
Introduction - On 11 September 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued new regulations (Revised Regulations) for the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) in response to a New York federal court decision that...more