Forthcoming reforms aim to modernise the process in response to the higher percentage of employees working from home, Sarah Jackman reports From April 2026, the maximum protective award for failure...

A new law in Illinois requires health plans to cover therapies for menopause, and another new law in Philadelphia prohibits employers from discriminating based on menopause or menstruation. Severa...

New York state recently enacted the Trapped At Work Act (the Act), prohibiting “employment promissory notes” and certain other stay-at-work-or-pay provisions. The Act will become effective as of D...

New York recently enacted legislation that will soon require employers that are federally mandated to maintain workplace first aid supplies to include an opioid antagonist, such as Naloxone or Narc...

In a recent address, the President of Australia’s Fair Work Commission (FWC) described a sharp, AI‑driven surge in applications, highlighting how large language models (LLMs) can produce ready‑to‑f...

Dear Littler: I’m hearing all this chatter about employees being “trapped” at work and I don’t understand it. We are a multistate employer that provides relocation benefits and sign-on bonuses to n...

Leading national law firm Freeths has continued the significant growth of its market-leading Employment & Pensions team, welcoming seven new lawyers across six of its thirteen offices. This ex...

Court verdicts continue to be riddled with illegally and wrongly “corrected” names, causing innocent people to go to prison and others to evade punishment, whistleblowers at the judicial informati...

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