News & Analysis as of August 29, 2025

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Hard to imagine that human trafficking and slavery still exists today, and yet they do. Here's a look legal developments in the important fight against what President Barack Obama has described as "one... more +

National State Employment Law Update – Changes to Look Out for in the Second Half of 2025

Amundsen Davis LLC on 8/26/2025

As employers keep their eye on compliance, below are some notable employment law changes that will be effective in the coming months. Arkansas - Effective August 4, 2025 - Senate Bill 598 (S.B. 598) requires an employer or...more

Rhode Island’s New Workplace Laws: Menopause Protections, “Captive Audience” Meeting Ban, Minimum Wage Hikes, and More

Fisher Phillips on 8/4/2025

Rhode Island employers must keep up with new workplace laws enacted this year, including some that have already taken effect. The state not only joined a growing number of states that prohibit so-called “captive audience”...more

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Detainee Labor and Sovereign Immunity

Carr Maloney P.C. on 6/6/2025

On October 22, 2014, a class action lawsuit was filed by over 60,000 detainees of GEO Group’s Processing Immigration Center against GEO Group Inc. for violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and unjustly enriching...more

English courts take jurisdiction over Malaysian forced labour allegations - Limbu v Dyson

A&O Shearman on 2/7/2025

The English Court of Appeal has ruled that the English courts have jurisdiction to hear a claim brought by a group of migrant workers against three companies in the Dyson group alleging trafficking and abuses of their labour...more

New York City Employers Must Post and Distribute Recently Issued "Workers' Bill of Rights"

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 3/18/2024

By July 1, 2024, employers in New York City are required to post and provide their employees with a "Workers' Bill of Rights," which has now been issued by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection ("DCWP"). DCWP also...more

Westchester County, New York Issues Guidance and Mandatory Notices for Safe Time Leave Law

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 11/5/2019

As we previously reported, effective October 30, 2019, Westchester County, NY employers are required to provide paid leave to employees who are victims of domestic violence or human trafficking (“safe time”). Leave under the...more

Westchester County Implements Safe Time Leave

Fisher Phillips on 8/2/2019

Westchester County employers will soon need to provide paid safe time leave to employees who are the victims of domestic violence or human trafficking. Earlier this year, county lawmakers passed the Safe Time Leave for...more

Westchester County, NY Enacts Standalone Paid “Safe” Time Ordinance

Littler on 5/13/2019

Westchester County, New York has enacted a new ordinance, the “Safe Time Leave Law,” that, beginning October 30, 2019, will require all private employers to provide up to 40 hours of paid leave for victims of domestic...more

California Employers To Face Raft Of New #MeToo Laws

Fisher Phillips on 10/2/2018

Wrapping up a whirlwind weekend, California Governor Jerry Brown just signed several pieces of legislation that will create new employer obligations in the areas of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. Specifically,...more

California’s Newest Laws: It’s Shocktober for Employers!

Littler on 10/2/2018

The September 30, 2018 deadline has come and gone for Governor Jerry Brown to evaluate the bills passed by the California legislature this year. In his last hurrah, Governor Brown has signed into law a jaw-dropping number of...more

NYC Employers Must Take Immediate Steps to Comply with Expanded Sick Leave Law

Fisher Phillips on 5/18/2018

New York City recently expanded its paid sick leave law to provide protected time off to employees who are the victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking and to broaden the definition of a...more

NYC Expands Earned Sick Time Act to Cover “Safe Time” - Hedge Up: A Heads-Up on Employment Issues Confronting the Hedge Fund and...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/11/2018

• New measure expands the NYC Earned Sick Time Act to Cover “Safe Time.” • Safe Time can be used when an employee or a member of the employee’s family has been the victim of a family offense matter, sexual offense,...more

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