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Tennessee Attorney General’s Office Launches New Civil Rights Enforcement Division: What Employers Need to Know

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On July 1, 2025, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced the launch of the Civil Rights Enforcement Division (CRED), a newly established unit within the Attorney General’s Office. This significant structural...more

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Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Allows Lawsuit Challenging EEOC’s PWFA Rules to Proceed

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In a significant legal development, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit brought by seventeen Republican-led state attorneys general challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s inclusion...more

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New York AG James Reaches $16.75M Settlement With DoorDash for Allegedly Misleading Tip Practices

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The New York Attorney General’s (AG) Office announced a $16.75 million settlement with DoorDash, the prominent delivery platform. The settlement relates to claims that DoorDash misled both consumers and delivery workers...more

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New Jersey Updates Discrimination Law: New Rules for AI Fairness

The New Jersey AG and the Division on Civil Rights’ new guidance on algorithmic discrimination explains how AI tools might be used in ways that violate the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination. The law applies to employers...more

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A Coalition of State Attorneys General Issues DEI Guidance in Response to Executive Order

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On February 13, 2025, a coalition of 16 state attorneys general issued Multi-State Guidance Concerning Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Employment Initiatives (the “Multi-State AG Guidance”). The Multi-State AG...more

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Amending New York’s Donnelly Act: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try, and Try Again

A proposed amendment to New York’s Donnelly Act, introduced earlier this month, would significantly broaden the scope of the antitrust statute enacted in 1899. New York Senate Bill 335, titled the “Twenty-First Century...more

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AI Under Watch: New Developments in New York and California Push Businesses Toward AI Transparency and Compliance

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AI is reshaping the workplace, and two of the nation’s most influential states – California and New York – are making sure businesses take accountability. California’s Attorney General issued sweeping advisories on Monday...more

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Understanding Massachusetts' New Pay Transparency and Reporting Requirements

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Massachusetts employers should be aware of a new Massachusetts law that will have an impact on their hiring practices and reporting requirements in 2025. Massachusetts recently joined a growing number of states by enacting a...more

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Minnesota AG Requires 3M to Pay $1 Million in Back Wages

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Minnesota AG Keith Ellison settled with 3M Company to resolve allegations that it violated state employment laws by making unauthorized deductions from employee pay. According to the Assurance of Discontinuance, 3M allegedly...more

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AGs Take Laboring Oar on Requiring Government Contractors to Provide Payroll Information

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A coalition of 14 Democratic AGs, led by Pennsylvania AG Michelle Henry, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Labor asking the DOL to require more information from government contractors regarding payroll for workers....more

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Big News For NJ Employers – NJ AG Files First Complaint Under the Enhanced State Labor and Benefits Laws

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On December 11, 2023, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office filed its first lawsuit under the State’s enhanced labor laws permitting it to commence actions against employers in Superior Court for misclassifying workers as...more

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State AG Pulse | AGs Clock In On Wages

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State AGs’ authority is by no means limited to their more traditional jurisdictions - consumer protection, privacy, and antitrust - as several recent actions by state AGs in the labor and employment arena clearly demonstrate....more

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Massachusetts AG Reaches $6.8M Settlement with Operator of MGM Casino for Alleged Violations of State Wage and Hour Laws

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Massachusetts Attorney General (AG) Andrea Joy Campbell has announced a $6.8 million settlement with the operator of an MGM resort and casino known as MGM Springfield for the entity’s alleged violations of the Massachusetts...more

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

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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

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Virginia General Assembly 2023 Employment Law Roundup

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The Virginia General Assembly’s 2023 legislative session concluded with Gov. Glenn Youngkin signing 738 bills into law and amending another 78. With a divided government characterized by Republican control of the governor’s...more

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Top Workplace Law Stories You May Have Missed from January 2023

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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...more

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Important Changes Coming to Illinois Non-Compete and Non-Solicit Law

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Over the last few years several states have enacted or amended laws to corral the use of employee non-compete and non-solicit agreements. Keeping pace with those states, Illinois recently made critical amendments to its...more

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Airline Service Company To Pay For Minimum Wage And Overtime Violations And Reimburse Costs Of Laundering Uniforms

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New York AG Letitia James reached a settlement with airline service company American Sales and Management Organization, LLC d/b/a/ Eulen America (“Eulen”) to resolve allegations that it underpaid its employees and failed to...more

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NY Amends Proposed Construction Industry Wage Law, But Burden On Contractors Remains

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New York appears poised to enact a modified version of legislation that would create potential liability for general contractors when their subcontractors fail to properly pay their employees. As noted in our prior...more

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California Employment Roundup: Q1 2021

Independent contractors, meal periods, and PAGA. The first quarter of 2021 yielded some key rulings from the California appellate courts on independent contractor classification, meal-period rounding, and arbitration of...more

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October 2020: The Top 11 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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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

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The End of the Beginning, or the Beginning of the End?

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On August 10, 2020, a California judge ordered Uber Technologies, Inc. and Lyft Inc., to reclassify their drivers from independent contractors to employees by August 20, 2020. The ruling is the opening salvo in the litigation...more

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Emergency Stay of TRO Against Ride Share Companies Means Californians Won’t Have to Live Without Services

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As we wrote here just several days ago, Californians were facing the seemingly unimaginable this week– the possibility of living without ride share services for the foreseeable future....more

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Do Lawsuits in California and Massachusetts Threaten the Gig Economy as We Know It?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the important role that gig workers play in our economy. At the same time, it also has highlighted the working conditions of gig workers, spurring several states to take action on their...more

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Ride Share Companies Likely to Appeal California TRO Requiring Them to Treat Drivers as Employees

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We have written here frequently about California’s controversial AB 5 law, which permits companies to treat workers as independent contractors only if they satisfy a stringent “ABC” test....more

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