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How Might Your Company be Affected by West Virginia's Employment Law Changes?
On May 28, 2025, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster officially signed H.3430, also known as Act 42, which amends part of South Carolina’s Contribution Among Tortfeasors Act, S.C. Code Ann. §15-38-15, as well as laws...more
On June 9, 2025, Oregon enacted Senate Bill 426, a significant new law aimed at protecting construction workers from wage theft by imposing strict joint and several liability on both property owners and direct contractors for...more
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on April 21, 2025, signed into law Senate Bills (SB) 68 and 69 – Georgia's headline-grabbing tort reform bills (the Tort Reform Package). Though much has been published about the Tort Reform Package's...more
Businesses such as restaurants, hotels, supermarkets, convenience stores and others will be affected by major changes to Florida's tort law. ...more
There has been a growing trend of states enacting legislation making general contractors jointly and severally liable for the wages, benefits and supplements owed by project subcontractors to that subcontractor’s workers. ...more
On January 1, 2023, Senate Bill 62, the Garment Worker Protection Act, will become effective, making California the first state to ban piece rate pay for garment workers. SB 62 prohibits any “employee engaged in the...more
On September 6, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law New York Senate Bill S2766, which makes contractors in the construction industry jointly and severally liable for wages owed to employees of its...more
Soon after being elected, New Jersey’s Governor created a task force to end misclassification of independent contractors, and the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) began increasing audits and its...more
Effective February 10, 2020, the top ten members of an out-of-state limited liability company (“LLC”) can be held personally liable for violations of New York’s wage and hour laws. The bill, signed on December 12 by Governor...more
The Situation: Currently, married taxpayers can file joint federal income tax returns but file separate Illinois income tax returns if one spouse is not a resident of Illinois. The Development: New legislation would...more
On May 16, 2019, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law HB 3427 (the Bill), which creates a new Corporate Activities Tax. The tax is a gross receipts tax that will be used to establish the “Fund for Student Success,”...more
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
• According to a California statute set to take effect in January 2019, ocean carriers, marine terminal operators (MTOs) and shippers engaging port drayage motor carriers (PDMCs) that default on obligations to pay employees...more
On September 22, Governor Brown signed SB 1402, a bill that establishes joint and several liability for customers who contract with or use port drayage motor carriers who have unpaid wage, tax and workers’ compensation...more
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed into law on November 2, 2015, has significantly changed the partnership tax audit rules, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Under the current partnership...more
Several bills affecting employers in West Virginia were brought before the 2015 Legislature, including bills relating to discrimination, prevailing wage, wage payment issues and more. Which ones passed, and how will they...more