Indiana has enacted legislation that discontinues the state’s system for tracking employment of minors under 18. The measure removes all statutory references to the Youth Employment System, which previously required businesses with teen workers to register and provide information regarding ... Read More
The National Labor Relations Board reinstated the 2020 joint‑employer standard on February 26, 2026, formally withdrawing the 2023 rule and placing the narrower framework back into effect. This action restores the approach that had governed before the 2023 revision and ... Read More
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently announced a proposed rule that would rescind the current rule addressing the classification of independent contractors and replace it with an analysis for employee classification similar to the one adopted ... Read More
As you know, New York city’s amended Earned Safe and Sick Time Act, officially took effect on February 22, 2026, bringing with it expanded reasons for use of both paid and unpaid time off and the introduction of a new ... Read More
As you know, New York City has enacted Int. 780-A, amending the city’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (ESSTA). Among other things, the amendments expand the permissible uses of ESSTA leave and introduce a new front-loaded allotment of 32 ... Read More
Late last year, New York enacted the Trapped at Work Act, a law aimed at protecting workers from restrictive employment agreements. The Act generally prohibits employers from requiring workers or job applicants to sign employment promissory notes that typically require ... Read More
The federal contractor minimum wage has gone through several changes over the past decade, creating some confusion about which rules apply to which contracts. President Obama’s Executive Order 13658 originally established a higher minimum wage for workers performing on or ... Read More
Nebraska has made changes to the state’s minimum wage provisions, training wage provisions, and youth minimum wage. Access the enacted bill here.
New York City has passed a new law directing employers who provide at least one security guard in the city to provide their security guard employees with minimum wage, paid vacation time and supplemental benefits that meet or exceed the ... Read More
The Federal Trade Commission has issued warning letters to 42 major U.S. law firms regarding concerns about potentially anticompetitive hiring practices connected to participation in the Mansfield Certification program. According to the FTC, the program, developed by Diversity Lab, requires ... Read More
New York has amended its labor law to require most employers (other than government agencies) that are federally mandated to have first aid supplies readily available in the workplace to include an opioid antagonist (e.g., Narcan) in such first aid ... Read More
The State of Ohio has introduced a new requirement for companies engaged in non‑residential construction work within its borders. With the signing of the E‑Verify Workforce Integrity Act on December 19, 2025, the governor established a mandatory framework that will ... Read More
