California is considering changes to its workplace inspection rules that would expand who may accompany inspectors during on-site Cal/OSHA inspections. Cal/OSHA has published a proposed rulemaking and will have...

Each year, California's minimum wage rises, but along with hourly workers' wages increasing, so too does the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime.

California has expanded employers' ability to obtain workplace violence restraining orders when threats target entire worksites or groups of employees rather than specific individuals. New procedural requirements will also modernize how these protective orders are filed and heard, including mandatory remote appearance options and electronic filing capabilities.

The California government launched what it describes as the first state tool to monitor and track the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce.

Conflicting orders on motions to dismiss from two California courts foreshadow issues for a new theory of ERISA liability. Employers have faced a recent wave of novel ERISA class actions...

The 2025 CAR does not alter ERISA's substantive fiduciary standards and considerations but eases the DOL's previously hostile enforcement stance toward cryptocurrency and similar digital assets in 401(k) plans...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the arrest of 15 individuals who claimed to work on Optional Practical Training (OPT) for nonexistent companies.

The complexities of California employment law begin not when an employer extends an offer, but as soon as they decide to post a job opening.

On July 15, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1870, which mandates that employers include information in their notices about an injured employee's...

New York's Freelance Isn't Free Act, which requires that a business provide any freelance worker with a written contract if the freelance work is worth at least $800, inclusive of multiple projects over a 120-days period...

During the next several weeks, we will publish a series of articles that dive deeply into "health plan hygiene" relating to health and welfare benefit plan fiduciary issues...

Also starting 01.01.27, employers cannot penalize volunteer emergency workers who are absent from or late to work because they were responding to emergencies or participating in required training.

A recent Iowa court decision highlights the risks to employers who do not strictly comply with all facets of the state's drug testing law, Iowa Code Section 730.5, which is one of the nation's most technical drug testing laws.

The New York Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) published the "Workers' Bill of Rights" on March 1, 2024. The Workers' Bill of Rights is meant to serve as a comprehensive...

Twenty-two multiemployer pension plans (MEPPs), representing more than 25,000 participants, have filed suit against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging that the agency improperly denied them access to billions of dollars in emergency retirement funding.

Emergency personal expense distributions are those made to an individual to meet unforeseeable or immediate financial needs relating to necessary personal or family expenses.

New Hampshire has become the 26th U.S. state to enact a version of the model CROWN Act, which stands for "Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair."

Starting in the first quarter of 2024, employers must report Standard Occupational Code (SOC) information for their employees in the quarterly wage file reports due by April 30, 2024.

On July 30, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court order requiring the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to release EEO-1 reports previously...

OFCCP has published proposed modifications to the VEVRAA and Section 503 regulations which govern federal contractor affirmative action obligations for veterans and individuals with disabilities.