It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we’ll see in the workplace in the coming year, especially given the recent volatility we’ve experienced and expect for the foreseeable future. Despite the ever-present uncertainty, we asked our firm’s thought leaders to develop their best predictions to help you plan for 2025. You can read our entire FP Workplace Law 2025 Forecast here, or you can dive into this Insight for the top 10 predictions we pulled from our report.

1. Wage and Hour: Return to Employer-Friendly Rules

Now that the Biden administration is coming to an end, we don’t think the incoming Trump administration will pick up the legal battles over the OT rule. We predict the threshold will remain $35k for now – although we do anticipate that the DOL will take steps to modestly increase the salary threshold (as it did during the first Trump administration). This means employers have some critical decisions to make on how to move forward with compensation plans. We also expect the DOL to drop a Biden-era independent contractor standard and return to the more lenient rule issued during Trump’s first term. You can read more about those rules here. Similarly, we think the DOL will shift back to its pre-Biden, more employer-friendly joint employer standard.

2. Labor Relations: Expect a Level Playing Field

As with wage and hour rules, we expect to see a shift in labor relations policies in 2025. Between the end of Chevron and the incoming Trump administration,...

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