As 2025 comes to a close, the new year offers an opportunity to take a look back at the trends and developments that have shaped labor and employment law over the past year, and what it might indic...

Under the new California “Workplace Know Your Rights Act” (Senate Bill (SB) 294), employers must provide a new notice to employees by February 1, 2026. Lawmakers drafted the legislation to ensure ...

Kerry Cahill joined Bodman PLC as a member in the workplace law practice group in Troy, Michigan, the firm announced Tuesday. Cahill represents employers in a wide range of industries in employmen...

Nancy Gunzenhauser Popper, Naomi Friedman, Katherine Heaney and Gretel Zumwalt at the Law Firm of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. report – via The National Law Review, that New York Governor Kath...

The UK’s Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA), which received Royal Assent on 18 December 2025, introduces wide-ranging reforms to UK employment law. The Act spans a broad range of topics, including f...

Key insight: The FDIC's inspector general concluded that most whistleblower allegations relayed by Sen. Joni Ernst were unsupported, previously resolved or based on incorrect assumptions about spe...

Almost two dozen states are raising their minimum wage in 2026, providing American workers a pay bump at a time when many are struggling to cover basic necessities. In total, 88 jurisdictions — inc...

2025 was another eventful year in employment law. As with previous years, the enforceability of termination clauses continued to dominate courts’ time, but a more balanced approach to these clause...

New York employers who rely on credit reports when making employment decisions must prepare for a significant change in the new year. On December 19, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul signed S3072 into l...

State and local legislatures were active throughout 2025 in passing employment laws and ordinances concerning topics such as artificial intelligence, pay transparency, and paid leaves, to name a f...