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New DEI Guidance Ties Federal Funding to Compliance and Provides Roadmap for Employers: Your 6 Biggest Takeaways

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Federal officials just issued another warning that employers may be at risk of losing federal funding – including grant funding – if their DEI or similar programs violate anti-discrimination laws. Recent guidance from the...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

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

New Administration Outlook: What Should Federal Contractors Do With Their DEI Programs?

Recipients of federal funding now have broad mandates but little guidance from the Trump Administration about employer DEI programs. Trump's new Executive Order "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

New Jersey Expands its Medical Cannabis Act to Include Workplace Protections

Prior to July 2nd, New Jersey’s Medical Cannabis Act lacked protections for employees’ off-duty medical marijuana use.  Indeed, last year the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey held that nothing in the Medical...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Medical Marijuana on Campus: Barbuto's Impact on School Policies Banning Drug Use

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently ruled in Barbuto v. Advantage Sales and Marketing, LLC that an employee's use of medical marijuana to treat a qualified disability may be a reasonable accommodation under...more

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