News & Analysis as of August 15, 2025

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Hiring & Firing refers to the process of recruiting, interviewing and offering employment and the process of evaluating performance and dismissing employees. Hiring & Firing is a highly regulated area and can create tremendous liability for employers who fail to properly adhere to acceptable employment practices. Some of the potential pitfalls in this area stem from discriminatory hiring practices, improper performance evaluations, and retaliatory firings. less -

Washington Expands Employee Access to Personnel Files

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP on 5/29/2025

Washington law provides employees with the right to inspect their personnel file annually upon request. In April, the Washington legislature amended the personnel file access requirements. The updated law is effective July...more

Cleveland’s Pay Transparency and Compensation History Law: Breaking Down the New Employer Requirements

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 5/16/2025

Employers in Cleveland will need to change their hiring practices to comply with the city’s new pay transparency and compensation history law that goes into effect on Oct. 27, 2025. On April 30, 2025, Cleveland enacted...more

Cleveland City Council Passes New Pay Transparency and Salary History Ordinance

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 5/12/2025

What Employers Need to Know - On April 28, 2025, the Cleveland City Council passed Ordinance No. 104-2025, introducing significant changes to hiring practices for employers within the city. This legislation mandates pay...more

Illinois Civil Rights Protection Goes High-Tech: Illinois Human Rights Act Expanded to Include AI Regulation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 8/15/2024

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation last week that will require Illinois employers to inform workers and job seekers about their use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in making employment decisions. The...more

What Employers Need to Know about the White House’s Executive Order on AI

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 11/17/2023

President Joe Biden recently issued an executive order devised to establish minimum risk practices for use of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) with focus on rights and safety of people, with many consequences for...more

New Massachusetts Noncompetition Act: What Employers Need To Know

Verrill on 9/27/2018

Massachusetts recently enacted a new statute that significantly changes the treatment of noncompetition agreements under Massachusetts law. The Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (the “Act”) is effective October 1,...more

California Enacts a Raft of New Employment Legislation

Proskauer - California Employment Law on 10/21/2015

The latest legislative session has just ended, and, true to form, the California Legislature has added more than a dozen new laws affecting employers doing business in the nation’s largest state. These statutes are in...more

Oregon to Become the Latest State to Ban the Box

Littler on 6/23/2015

On June 16, 2015, the Oregon House passed an amended version of House Bill 3025, which will prohibit most employers from asking questions about criminal history on job applications or at any other point in the hiring process...more

New Legislation Promises More Investigations by the New York City Commission on Human Rights

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/1/2015

On April 20, 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed two new bills into law that authorize the New York City Commission on Human Rights to increase the number of employment discrimination investigations. ...more

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