2024 is shaping up to be a frenetic year for employment law as state and federal regulators look to build a “worker-centric” economy that prioritizes employees’ rights to organize and change jobs freely.
Companies can expect to see more worker-led unionization efforts, as well as heightened scrutiny over how they classify workers, impose noncompete agreements, and police employees’ political speech, a group of employment law experts said Tuesday on a panel previewing this year’s top labor and employment trends hosted by In-House Connect.
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...