Minimum Wage, Employee Rights, Anti-Discrimination Policies

Recent Amendments to Rhode Island Employment Laws Require Employer Action

Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP on 7/15/2025

The Rhode Island General Assembly recently enacted several amendments to existing employment laws that will impact employers immediately and into 2026. These changes include expanded anti-discrimination protections, new...more

Signs You Can’t Ignore If You’re Doing Business in California

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/11/2025

California law is complicated. When doing business in California, it helps to get the small things right – like mandatory postings. Keep reading for the signs California employers must post in the workplace...more

Change Is Coming to Spain’s Minimum Wage, Visa Process, and LGBTQ Protections

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/5/2025

In recent months, Spain has approved measures to streamline the visa process and better protect LBGTQ employees. It also has proposed raising the minimum wage and shortening the workweek....more

Legal Update: Ring in the New Year with New York and New York City Employment Law Updates

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/20/2024

Lawmakers in the city and state of New York were busy in 2024 enacting various labor- and employment-related legislation that is already impacting the workplace....more

Hot off the Press: New Labor Reform Bill for Puerto Rico

Littler on 6/22/2022

On June 20, 2022, Governor Pedro Pierluisi signed into law Act No. 41-2022, instituting drastic changes to labor and employment laws in Puerto Rico and extending employment rights for employees in the private sector. In doing...more

Virginia Employers Get Ready: New Laws Dramatically Expand Employee Protections and Employer Liability in the Commonwealth

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 4/27/2020

In the wake of Virginia voting in Democratic majorities in both houses of the state legislature last year, the Virginia legislature has passed, and Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has signed into law, a slew of new measures...more

How Might Virginia’s New Legislative Trifecta Affect Employers in the Commonwealth in 2020?

Littler on 1/7/2020

In the November 2019 election Virginia gained a Democratic “trifecta”—both legislative chambers and the governorship are now controlled by one political party. It has been over two decades since Democratic lawmakers...more

South Carolina Legislative Update: Bills to Watch

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/24/2019

South Carolina is not known as a hotbed of legislative action protecting employee rights, let alone creating new ones. However, several bills are pending in the state legislature that, if passed, would impact South Carolina...more

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