Summer 2025
So You Know What to Ask to Avoid Employer Pitfalls
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 initiatives. Recent Supreme Court decisions have addressed related activities, including the penchant for nationwide injunctions and the standard for those in the majority to sue for discrimination. At the state and local level, New York has new child labor laws and issued materials on the new Retail Worker Safety Act, New Jersey issued materials on its new pay transparency law, and New York City amended its sick leave rules to align with prenatal leave requirements. New laws in New York and Connecticut seek to undue court decisions in those states that had created large damages exposure for employers, while an appellate court decision in Connecticut addressed remote work as a reasonable accommodation. All this and more in a chock-full, extended length issue for Summer 2025.
