immigration practice, the firm recently announced. Travis J. Odom joins the firm's Houston office as a partner, after spending the past 12 years at Littler Mendelson PC as a shareholder, accordin...

comprehensive" reform of the Davis-Bacon Act in decades, changing the law that governs prevailing wages on public projects. The DOL released a notice of proposed rulemaking adjusting how prevaili...

New Orleans is the latest city to take a step toward ending drug testing for marijuana as a condition of employment, with the City Council approving a resolution on Thursday recommending a policy...

The gender pay gap is an ongoing problem. There have been numerous attempts to eliminate it, including prohibitions on salary negotiations and sharing of salary information among workers. These s...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Whistleblowers’ Complaints Reveal Further Abuse of Authority, Violations of Law and Ethics Rules at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy New disclosures ...

On March 3, 2022, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s City Council adopted and sent to the mayor (who we expect to sign) Bill # 220051-A, an ordinance requiring covered employers to provide paid “COVID-...

While a labor shortage continues to affect critical industries in the United States, over one million noncitizens eagerly await the U.S. government to issue their work permits. Despite many alrea...

‘Prevailing wage’ definition would return to earlier version Goal is to update Davis-Bacon to reflect ‘modern construction industry’ The U.S. Department of Labor is looking to update its rules ...

The Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022 (the Bill), which will transpose the EU Whistleblowing Directive (Whistleblowing Directive), was published last month and amends and extends the ex...

Employee ownership trusts (EOTs) are increasingly popular ownership models that can deliver benefits to an organisation’s shareholders and its employees. However, while EOTs offer a ‘third way’ a...