The 117th Congress has introduced nearly 400 labor and employment bills since first convening on Jan. 3, 2021, ranging from protecting farmworkers from wildfire smoke and excessive heat to establ...

Litigant says he can prove the bureaucrat was doing other things when supposedly compiling documents An Athens, Tennessee, man has filed suit against the city of Athens and city manager C. Seth...

President Joe Biden intends to nominate civil rights attorney Kalpana Kotagal to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the White House announced Friday. Currently a partner at Cohen M...

Yale is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the whereabouts of Anton Sovetov, a university employee who was last seen by colleagues nearly two months ago. Anyone with information...

On March 30, 2022, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 5761, a measure that requires employers to affirmatively disclose in each job posting open to applicants the sal...

Much has been written about Senate Bill 169 (S.B. 169), which established new limits on noncompetition agreements in Oregon as of 1 January 2022. Less attention has been paid to what employers ca...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when it withdrew a Trump-era Independent Contractor Final Rule (ICFR), a Texas federal court has held. Coalition...

KEY TAKEAWAYS SECURE Act 2.0 passed the U.S. House of Representatives on March 29, 2022. SECURE Act 2.0 would make changes to employer-sponsored retirement plans to expand coverage and increa...

Private employers in New Jersey need to be aware of the latest employee privacy law that will take effect on April 18, 2022. A. B. 3950 prohibits employers from knowingly using a “tracking device...