News & Analysis as of

Immigrants State Labor Laws

Holland & Knight LLP

Colorado Employment Laws to Take Effect This Summer

Holland & Knight LLP on

Amid tumultuous times in federal labor and employment law in 2025, Colorado's General Assembly has enacted several key modifications to laws impacting employers with Colorado employees – from wage-and-hour enforcement and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California Labor Laws Protect Every Worker in the State, Regardless of Immigration Status

In light of recent immigration enforcement efforts at the federal level, the California Labor Commissioner issued a news release on Monday, June 9, 2025, pointedly reminding employers that the state's labor laws protect every...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

E-Verify in Illinois: SB0508 Myths Dispelled, Rights Protected

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

The passage of the vaguely named “Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act” led to widespread chatter that the law possibly prohibited employers from using E-Verify unless they were explicitly required to do so under federal...more

Littler

New Jersey Enacts “Bill of Rights” for Domestic Workers

Littler on

The New Jersey Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights (S723/A822), one of three laws signed in early January relating to protecting immigrants and part of the Murphy administration’s larger effort to build a more inclusive state...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Florida Law Imposes Additional E-Verify Requirements for Private Employers

Bilzin Sumberg on

Further Hiring Requirements for Private Employers - A. Overview of Senate Bill 1718 (“SB1718”) - Earlier this year, the State of Florida enacted a law that continues to have significant implications for employers across...more

Fisher Phillips

Workplace Law Update: 22 Essential Items on Your August To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on

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. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Florida’s New Immigration Bill: What Employers Need to Know

Florida employers should prepare now to comply with a new law taking effect in July, aimed at ensuring that employers do not allow undocumented immigrants to work in their businesses.Senate Bill 1718 (SB 1718), which became...more

Littler

New York State Provides Protection for Individuals Based on Citizenship and Immigration Status

Littler on

On December 23, 2022, Governor Hochul signed into law New York State Assembly Bill A6328A, amending the New York Executive Law § 292 (known as the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL)), to prohibit employment...more

Fisher Phillips

November 2020: The Top 16 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Amendment Adds Protections for Immigrant Workers in Wage and Hour Complaints

Continuing a busy summer of changes, on July 29, 2019, Governor Cuomo signed an amendment to New York state’s Labor Law that adds protections for employees who complain of suspected wage-and-hour violations. The amendment is...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Recent New York Legislation Prohibits Employers From Threatening to Report an Employee's Suspected Immigration Status in...

New York has for many years had a law on the books that prohibits employers from retaliating against an employee because the employee has complained about an alleged violation of the wage and hour laws. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Legislative Update: Employment Bills Already Signed, Two Weeks Remain

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: Governor Jerry Brown has already signed into law legislation covering meal period exceptions for truck drivers delivering commercial feed, adding communications to be considered as “privileged” for purposes...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Can California Revive Its Immigrant Worker Protection Act?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: California enacted its Immigrant Worker Protection Act (IWPA) to make it more difficult for federal immigration enforcement agents to access nonpublic areas of employer worksites and private employee...more

Jones Day

2018 California Employment Legislation and Regulatory Update

Jones Day on

The California Legislature in 2017 adopted multiple statutes that increase the complexity and scope of employment regulation. Most notable was the passage and signing of Assembly Bill 168, which prohibits employers from...more

FordHarrison

New Template Makes It Easier for Employers to Provide Notice Under California's Immigrant Worker Protection Act

FordHarrison on

In a development welcomed by employers state-wide, the California Labor Commissioners Office released a template notice form for California’s recently enacted Immigrant Worker Protection Act well in advance of the July 1,...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

California’s Labor & Employment Changes for 2018: Part I - Legislative Changes Impacting Employers

California courts and Legislature greatly expanded protections for public and private workers in 2017, handing down decisions and passing laws regarding wages, discrimination based on criminal and salary histories,...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Employee Rights at Forefront of CA’s New Labor Laws

California lawmakers passed a swell of legislation last year aimed at extending the rights of all employees, regardless of gender identification, salary history, criminal past and more. Originally published on...more

Littler

WPI State of the States: A Busy December Signals a Wild 2018 for Employers

Littler on

Despite the holiday break in most statehouses and city halls, legislators were quite productive in December. More than 40 employment-related bills were introduced or advanced last month, across nearly 20 states and...more

Buchalter

Employers, Take Notice: New Employment Laws May Affect Your Business

Buchalter on

Year after year, the California Legislature and the Governor implement new employment laws that place additional requirements on employers throughout the state. The employment laws that become effective on January 1, 2018...more

Littler

With Governor Brown’s Signature, California Employers Face a Gauntlet of New Laws

Littler on

The October 15, 2017 deadline has come and gone for Governor Jerry Brown to weigh the bills passed by the California legislature this year. Governor Brown has now signed into law a jaw-dropping number of bills that pertain to...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

2017 Labor & Employment Legislative Update: It’s Finally Over! (For Now…)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

Seyfarth Synopsis: New statutory obligations for California employers in 2018 will include prohibitions on inquiries into applicants’ salary and conviction histories, expanding CFRA to employees of smaller employers,...more

21 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide