Takeaways

October 1, 2026 is a big day for Connecticut employers, with 7 employment law changes taking effect – under wage and hiring laws, break periods, workers compensation, disability accommodations, employee pri... Read More..

New Jersey is taking center stage with the greatest range of employment law changes last quarter, particularly an expansion of who is covered by the state Family Leave Act, labor law protections granted to cannabis workers, at least a pause on new... Read More..

After a sleepy fall, New York State has expanded employment laws yet again with a ban on most worker repayment agreements, express recognition of the disparate impact theory for providing discrimination claims, and a ban on checking job applicants... Read More..

Federal regulatory landscape shifts continue, with scale-down of rules and enforcement in wage and hour, workplace health and safety, labor practices, and affirmative action compliance, amid a continued push to attack employers who maintain DEI in... Read More..

100+ days into an evolving employment law landscape under the Trump administration, with significant policy shifts coming from the EEOC, radical change and reductions directed for OFCCP, and new worker classification guidelines from the DOL.  This... Read More..

We are covering all the DEI, affirmative action, gender diversity, and related EEOC, OFCCP, and NLRB actions at the federal level.  This issue also includes state and local developments on discrimination protections, wage law requirements, new gov... Read More..

Court decisions dominate employment law changes in Q2/Q3 2024, including Supreme Court decisions impacting federal agency actions, Connecticut courts defining parameters of state law discrimination claims, and New Jersey courts considering non-dis... Read More..

New court decisions impact the standard for evaluating claims of discrimination and retaliation, hold back federal regulatory changes on who is an employer, substantively address employers’ ability to monitor their employees and act on behaviors t... Read More..

New York law keeps changing rapidly, with new protections for freelancers, employees’ intellectual property,  and sealing criminal records, plus rules on settlement agreements and enforcement of paid sick leave.  New York and New Jersey employers ... Read More..