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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your May To-Do List

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially given the rapid pace at which the new administration has been moving on initiatives impacting the workplace and beyond. For the latest...more

Genova Burns LLC

What Employers Need To Know About DEI Certifications

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On January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration signed Executive Order 14173 on “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the Executive Order). The Executive Order seeks to end diversity, equity,...more

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Federal Judge Temporarily Halts DOL’s Enforcement of Portions of President Trump’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Executive...

The Department of Labor (DOL) is enjoined from enforcing parts of President Trump’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion-related Executive Orders following a partial nationwide injunction entered against them by Judge Matthew F....more

McCarter & English, LLP

DOJ Signals Potential Criminal Enforcement Against Private Sector for Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Diversity Equity...

On February 5, 2025, upon her swearing-in, US Attorney General Pamela Bondi issued multiple policy memoranda identifying various priorities of the Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Trump Administration. Among them is a...more

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Illinois Insights: An update from Cozen O'Connor (2/3)

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Heading into budget season, Gov. JB Pritzker faces major challenge to show ‘Illinois can govern itself’ - “With Gov. JB Pritzker still weighing whether to seek a third term, the firmer foundation he’s laid for Illinois’...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

With Federal Funding in Flux, Some Employers May Need to Review Layoff Procedures

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Terminations and layoffs are often the subject of employee class action lawsuits, whether they are brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act...more

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Employer Reactions to Federal Funding Freeze Could Have WARN Act Consequences

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As President Donald Trump’s proposed federal funding freeze may take effect within the coming days, organizations that rely upon federal funding may be forced to consider layoffs, furloughs or hours reductions for employees....more

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EEOC Releases Q&A Guidance on Continuing Effects of Government Shutdown

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Many agencies are experiencing lingering effects after the longest-ever partial government shutdown, including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Recognizing these effects will include delays and...more

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Complaints and Lawsuits Grind to a Halt as Shutdown Continues, Federal Court Funding About to Run Out

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Media reports abound on the impact of the shutdown—now the longest in U.S. history—on federal workers, recipients of certain services such as food stamps and tax refunds, and the political leaders facing blame for the...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Everything Employers Need to Know About the Government Shutdown

The federal government shutdown at 12:00 a.m. Saturday, December 22, 2018, as congressional leaders and the White House failed to strike a bipartisan funding deal over the U.S.-Mexico border wall....more

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