On July 14, 2026, at Loeb’s AI Summit in Chicago, lawyers at Loeb discussed the potential benefits of and concerns regarding artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are designed to help employers h...

Tennessee House Bill 1034 was signed into law on May 7, 2026, and took effect July 1, 2026. The law introduces two significant changes to employment-based non-compete agreements. First, the law ba...

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2026 agency rule list (which is normally semiannual) was released in early July 2026, and includes eight Wage and Hour Division new and previously proposed rul...

While remote work comes with many perks, a recent study warns that there’s been a significant increase in isolation and mental distress. “The increase in [mental] distress was roughly twice as lar...

Years of good reviews, then one bad one - a lawsuit says age was the real reason A former General Motors professional says the automaker fired him over his age and a discrimination complaint, a new...

The plaintiff dropped the case himself and agreed to pay the other side's legal fees. That was the plan all along Every so often a lawsuit arrives that seems built for the internet, and this one ha...

Opposing harassment is protected - but this worker crossed a line the district could act on Opposing harassment is protected. Showing nude photos of a co-worker on the clock is not. A federal appea...

The following article first appeared in the Insights section of Littler Mendelson’s website. It is reposted here with permission. Effective July 1, 2026, Connecticut Public Act 26-92 requires arbi...

Routing housekeeping to outside contractors extended liability to three firms and an owner A hotel company tried to dodge its union contract by staffing a migrant-housing deal with outsiders. A fed...

Her sex-bias and equal-pay case collapsed on one missing piece of evidence A federal appeals court upheld a school district's demotion of a principal over lost staff confidence, rejecting her sex b...