News & Analysis as of August 5, 2025

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

Fisher Phillips on 6/30/2025

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. To ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan for...more

AI in the Workplace: Using Artificial Intelligence Intelligently

BCLP on 10/9/2024

Ready or not, artificial intelligence (“AI”) is here, and even if your company hasn’t introduced or approved the use of AI, chances are your employees are already using it....more

The EEOC Continues to Update Guidance on Returning to Work Pandemic-Prepared

Payne & Fears on 4/30/2020

The EEOC continues to update its pandemic preparedness guidance regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and other Equal Employment Opportunity laws in the wake of COVID-19. The guidance...more

Coronavirus and the Workplace: Guidance for Employers Resuming Operations

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 4/29/2020

As states and localities begin to relax shelter-in-place requirements and allow businesses to reopen, the coronavirus pandemic presents new challenges for employers. In addition to operational and logistical questions...more

Five Workplace Challenges for Employers in Changing Times

Epstein Becker & Green on 5/30/2018

As Gordon Gekko famously pronounced in the 1980s classic movie Wall Street, “The most valuable commodity … is information.” Those words have never rung truer than in today’s world and in today’s workplaces. And as the old...more

EEOC Issues Proposed Wellness Regulations: Time for Another Check-Up

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/21/2015

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has finally issued proposed regulations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regarding wellness programs. The proposed regulations amend existing regulations and...more

EEOC Issues Proposed Rule on Wellness Programs and the ADA

Franczek P.C. on 4/21/2015

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released its long-awaited proposed rule providing guidance on the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to employer-sponsored wellness programs....more

EEOC Issues Proposed Wellness Program Amendments to ADA Regulations

Epstein Becker & Green on 4/20/2015

On April 16, 2015, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released its highly anticipated proposed regulations (to be published in the Federal Register on April 20, 2015, for notice and comment) setting forth...more

Are You Considering Conditioning A Job Offer On An Agreement That The Applicant's Disabled Dependent Won't Enroll In The Health...

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 4/3/2013

Traditional employment laws often interact with traditional employee benefit laws. One such example is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)'s impact on employer-sponsored group health plans. As group health plan costs...more

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