Paddle's Payment Predicament: Unpacking FTC's Compliance Crackdown — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
AI Today in 5: August 22, 2025, The Angst Episode
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 17: Security, Cyber-Intel, and a Sense of Humor with Nir Rothenberg of Rapyd
Daily Compliance News: August 22, 2025, The WADA Returns Edition
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 76 - The Digital Future: The US GENIUS Act and Hong Kong Stablecoins Ordinance / The Hong Kong Web3 Blueprint: Building a Web 3 International Financial Hub Report
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Understanding the Development and Regulation of Buy Now, Pay Later Products — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Understanding BBB Ratings: Strategic Approaches to Consumer Complaints — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Compliance Tip of the Day: Co-Thinking with AI
Joint Venture Eligibility Refresher on Requirements for Government Contractors
Compliance into the Weeds: Two Cyber Security Cases for the Compliance Professional
The Road to Regulation: Vehicle Service Contracts Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
AI Today in 5: August 12, 2025, The Creating Billionaires Episode
Compliance Tip of the Day - The ROI of Compliance
AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode
Taxing Intelligence: AI's Role in Modern Tax Administration
Podcast - An Overview of State Attorney General Consumer Protection Enforcement
LathamTECH in Focus: Move Fast, Stay Compliant
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Compliance Clarity for Federal Contractors with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of Arbor Consulting Group
AI Today in 5: August 6, 2025, The Rethinking Compliance Episode
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
I ’ve been around the block long enough to know that ERISA doesn’t care about the latest shiny object. It doesn’t care whether CNBC is hyping Bitcoin as the new gold, or whether private equity firms are pounding the table...more
The Department of Labor (DOL) is taking steps to revise and relaunch its affirmative action requirements for veterans and people with disabilities. ...more
On June 27, 2025, Director of the US Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) Catherine Eschbach issued a letter to federal contractors asking them to volunteer information on their efforts...more
They’ve all but shut the door, turned off the lights, and put up the “closed” sign. On July 2, Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer lifted the pause on investigations and enforcement of Section 503 of the Rehabilitation...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has issued three proposed rules to implement President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14173, which revoked Executive Order 11246 and...more
On June 27, 2025, federal government contractors received an email from OFCCP Director Catherine Eschbach offering them the “opportunity” to “provide information about their efforts to wind down compliance with the [Executive...more
Last week, OFCCP Director Eschbach issued a letter to federal contractors inviting them to voluntarily submit information regarding their efforts to comply with Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and...more
On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the relaunching and expansion of its opinion letter program (Program). The Program is designed to help the public understand their compliance obligations through...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“DOL”) under the Trump administration has doubled down on its commitment to the traditional economic-realities analysis for determining whether workers are employees or...more
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), and its implementing regulations and guidance, prohibits health insurance policies and group health plans that cover mental health and substance use disorder...more
The Trump Administration has just announced that it will pause enforcement of the September 2024 final rule (“Final Rule”) under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”)....more
On May 15, 2025 the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the “Departments”) announced they will temporarily not enforce their new standards published under the mental health parity Final Rule last...more
In our previous post, we discussed the nationwide temporary restraining order issued by the United States District Court for the North District of Illinois that temporarily prevented the Department of Labor from requiring...more
On January 17, 2025, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (“the Departments”) issued their 2024 Report to Congress on the enforcement and implementation of the Mental Health Parity and...more
On January 20, 2025, the Trump Administration signed Executive Order 14173 on “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the Executive Order). The Executive Order seeks to end diversity, equity,...more
Among the many Executive Orders issued by President Donald Trump’s administration, Executive Order 14221 (the “Order”) reinforces and expands healthcare price transparency enforcement. This Order builds on Executive Order...more
n March 14, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order rescinding eighteen (18) prior executive orders and actions, including Executive Order 14026’s substantial increase to the minimum wage for federal government...more
A new complication for wage and hour compliance. In a new Executive Order entitled, “Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions,” President Trump rescinded 18 Executive Orders, including Executive Order...more
On March 14, President Trump issued a new Executive Order titled “Additional Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.” In this order, the President rescinded eighteen prior Executive Orders or presidential...more
On February 25, 2025, President Trump signed “Making America Healthy Again with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information,” an Executive Order with the stated purpose of making group health plans and...more
On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity" ("Order"). The Order is mainly aimed at rescinding Executive Order 11246, which was...more
In a recent development, America First Legal (AFL) has formally requested the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to investigate federal contractors that allegedly have illegal...more
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed several executive orders pausing several federal funding streams while the Trump Administration evaluates whether covered government financial assistance aligns with the...more
Richard Reibstein, a partner with Troutman Pepper Locke, was quoted in the February 3, 2025 FreightWaves article, “Trucking-Backed Suit May Be Arena for Dumping Biden Independent Contractor Rule.”...more
We’ve written before about the “tennis match” that describes how, with changes in presidential parties, the Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed different tests to determine whether workers are “employees” covered by the...more