On January 1, 2025, the statewide minimum wage increased to $16.50 per hour. With the change in the statewide minimum wage, the minimum exempt salary for California employees rose from $66,560 to ...

By Sarah Mitchell Montgomery On January 21, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”). Among other ...

President Donald Trump has recently sparked widespread debate and concern with an executive order that many believe reverses decades of progress in employment equity. The order, issued on January ...

Amid the flurry of executive orders that President Donald Trump has issued from his new administration and rescinded from previous administrations, a number of his moves have targeted policies mea...

Which sections of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act did Trump revoke?

What’s going on at Stripe? Stripe, the Irish-American payments technology company, has laid off 300 employees, representing approximately 3.5% of its workforce. The layoffs, confirmed by an intern...

Quick Hits The Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit over whether retirees can sue their former employers for disability discrimination involving benefit plans. Lower courts are divided on t...

Labor and employment law in Germany will see a number of important developments in 2025. The Bureaucracy Relief Act IV took effect on January 1; the EU AI Act’s initial provisions on unauthorized ...

Among the barrage of executive orders signed by President Trump upon assuming office was an order revoking a longstanding Executive Order that placed affirmative action requirements on federal gov...