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On June 24, 2025, Maine enacted a new law requiring employers to compensate employees who report to their scheduled shifts but have their hours reduced or cancelled by their employer. This law will primarily impact businesses...more
2025 is halfway over, and already, there has been significant activity and legal developments throughout the U.S. on the state and local level. Below is a recap of notable laws enacted throughout the U.S. that have become...more
July 1 marked the effective date for three new laws that will create new rights for workers and new obligations for employers in Virginia: - Expansion of Non-Compete Ban – Virginia employers are now prohibited from...more
Last August, Sands Anderson reported that the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning non-competes was probably dead. While many employers likely breathed a sigh of relief after a federal judge in Texas struck down the...more
Virginia has further restricted noncompete agreements. Effective July 1, 2025, Virginia Code § 40.1-28.7:8 will prohibit Virginia employers from entering into non-competition agreements with employees who are classified as...more
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed Senate Bill 1218 into law, amending the state’s non-compete statute. Effective July 1, 2025, the updated law will broaden restrictions on non-compete agreements in Virginia....more
Effective July 1, new legislation will take effect in Virginia imposing further restrictions on the use of covenants not to compete and prohibiting their use for employees who are eligible to receive overtime pay under the...more
On March 24, 2025, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed Senate Bill 1218 into law, expanding the Commonwealth’s restrictions on non-competition agreements. Effective July 1, 2025, Virginia employers will be prohibited from...more
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin recently signed legislation expanding the state’s limitations on the use of noncompetition agreements in employment. Currently, Virginia prohibits employers from entering into noncompetes with...more
Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Decision Allowing Reinstatement of NLRB Member Wilcox - On April 7, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox could...more
Virginia lawmakers extended the state’s ban on non-compete agreements to cover all non-exempt employees. This new law affects how employers can enter non-compete agreements with even more of their employees and goes into...more
On March 24, 2025, Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin signed into law S.B. 1218, which amended Virginia’s non-compete law to expand the definition of “low-wage employees” with whom employers may not enter into non-competition...more
At the end of March, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed SB 1218, which amends Virginia’s non-compete ban for “low-wage” workers (the “Act”) to include non-exempt employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”)....more
Virginia has expanded its limited prohibitions on the use of noncompetition agreements for “low-wage employees,” which have been in place since 2020. On March 24, 2025, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed Virginia Senate...more
On March 24, 2025, Governor Glenn Youngkin signed into law legislation that amends the threshold compensation level of a “low-wage employee” with whom the Commonwealth restricts employers from entering into agreements not to...more
Beginning April 9, 2025, Ohio employers will be legally required to give employees access to their paystubs....more
One trend we see continuing in 2025 is state and local laws requiring employers to be more transparent in how they pay their employees. These requirements come in two varieties. First, more states and cities are requiring...more
A bill introduced in the Georgia state legislature, if passed, would exclude overtime compensation from Georgia state income taxes starting in 2026. House Bill 375 (H.B. 375), introduced on Feb. 11, 2025, would exclude from...more
New York City employers will be required to physically and electronically post a copy of their written lactation room accommodation policy under recent amendments to New York City’s lactation accommodations law set to take...more
Ohio businesses, take note: A new state law requires employers to provide employees with detailed earnings and deductions statements. Before this, Ohio was one of few states where employees did not have the right to receive...more
Employers are paying close attention to pay transparency laws, which are the latest trend in employment legislation. Often expanding on existing pay equity laws, many state and local governments have enacted or proposed...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
Ringing in the new year means a host of new employment laws that are now effective and on the horizon for New York employers. With the state very busy at year-end, employers should take note of new laws impacting the...more
In recent years, the United States has faced an epidemic of maternal mortality and worsening maternal health disparities and ranks well beyond its industrialized peers on these metrics. In response, many employers have taken...more
Balancing work and motherhood raises age-old questions for women in virtually every industry. Amongst these are how to navigate work during both pregnancy and the transition back to work after the baby is born, which present...more