In the 2023 Regular Session, Louisiana lawmakers passed Act No. 210 (the Act), which provided protections for employees who are absent from work to obtain genetic testing or a medically necessary cancer screening.

In the 2023 Regular Session, Louisiana lawmakers passed Act No. 210 (the Act), which provided protections for employees who are absent from work to obtain genetic...

In Mississippi, a person’s receipt of unemployment compensation is based on the reason(s) that their prior employment ended.

The Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA") requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees.

The Internal Revenue Service recently issued final regulations governing "safe harbor" hardship withdrawals from Section 401(k) plans.

On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled "[E]nding Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity," rescinding Executive Order...

Another court has issued an injunction against the enforcement of the Trump administration's H-1B policies that would raise minimum salary requirements for foreign professionals.

As expected, a Texas federal court issued a ruling on August 20, 2024, declaring that the Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC's") new rule purporting to ban nearly all noncompete agreements shall not "take effect...

In a highly-anticipated ruling, a Texas federal court concluded on July 3, 2024, that the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") exceeded its authority by enacting its rule in April 2024...

Recently, Tennessee became one of more than a dozen states and cities to pass its version of the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act.

As of April 2026, the National Labor Relations Board is functioning again, but not at full strength. The Board officially has five seats, yet only three are currently filled: Chairman James R. Murphy...

From the time I began practicing employment law many years ago, and probably for longer than that, we employment types have been quite comfortable in advising our clients that Title VII does not cover sexual orientation.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), at meetings in Washington D.C. at the end of August 2015...

On October 22, 2014, the CFPB issued a final rule amending the Dodd-Frank mortgage rules that became effective January 10, 2014.

On September 21, 2015, the CFPB issued a final rule amending the definitions of "small creditor" and "rural and underserved areas" which should be beneficial to many community banks and other small mortgage lenders.

The CFPB’s integrated TILA-RESPA disclosure rules issued last November go into effect August 15, 2015.

During the 89th Texas Legislative Session, Representative Gary Gates authored and passed House Bill 21, a comprehensive reform of Chapter 394 of the Texas Local Government Code.

The Department of Labor recently enacted rules that require financial advisers and brokers handling individual retirement and 401(k) accounts to act in the best interests of their clients.

We previously wrote about the Fifth Circuit's panel decision and the defendants' petition for rehearing en banc in this case.

A key tool for the defense of medical providers in Tennessee facing malpractice liability has been held to be not preempted by federal law.