On April 29, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") released new guidance on the general topic of harassment in the workplace.

Under Section 8(e) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), employees and employers are permitted to have a representative accompany OSHA Compliance Officers...

Last month, the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency approved a final rule that places reporting requirements on banks and banking service providers.

This year, with the passage of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act ("the Act")...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down one of the most significant decisions in decades. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, a case involving a little-known National Marine Fisheries Service regulation...

In the second installment of our podcast series examining the impact of Loper Bright in various industries and practice groups, Energy Environment & Natural Resources Practice Group member Alyssa Sloan joins...

As night follows day, class actions follow natural disasters. After Katrina, plaintiffs' lawyers pursued class actions against numerous defendants, ranging from levee districts to the federal government.

On Friday, November 15th, the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas struck down the Department of Labor's 2024 rule increasing the salary basis for both the white collar – executive...

On August 20, 2024 a Texas federal court issued a nationwide order preventing the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Non-Compete Rule from going into effect. For the time being, employers are not required to comply...

It's springtime, and in Oklahoma, that could only mean one thing—the annual SHRM Oklahoma (formerly OKHR) conference is right around the corner.

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, Title VII has become a fixture in private workplaces across the nation.

If your company’s drug-testing policy still turns on what you “reasonably believe” is a safety-sensitive position, it will soon be out of date. House Bill 3127, now signed into law, overhauls the employment provisions of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act (Title 63, Section 427.8) and becomes effective November 1, 2026.

Since January of 2023, Crowe & Dunlevy has been tracking and updating its clients on the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule to prohibit employers from imposing non-compete clauses on employees...

It's here, so we might as well take advantage of it. On Aug. 16, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. The IRA provides tax incentives and grants for solar, wind, hydrogen, nuclear, oil and gas...

Pending before the U.S. Supreme Court is a case with broad implications for the Environmental Protection Agency's power and agency power more broadly.

An Alabama court has recently approved a $2.8 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging that the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association violated federal antitrust laws...

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced its H-1B visa lottery for Fiscal Year 2026. H-1B visas can be used to sponsor foreign nationals to work for U.S. companies...

Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced an increased emphasis on enforcing the anti-retaliation provisions of various laws intended to protect workers who engage in protected activity...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held in Strife v. Aldine Independent School District that an employer's six-month delay in granting an employee's accommodation...

When considering the panoply of employment laws they deal with daily, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA, is not something businesses often think of.