As we approach the new year, employers should keep in mind that several updates to the New York Paid Family Leave Law (“NYPFLL”) are scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2025…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
For the second time in seven years, a federal court in Texas has struck down a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rule aimed at expanding the scope of overtime eligibility to workers across the country. On November 15, 2024, in…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
On November 16, 2024, the New York Clean Slate Act (the “Act”) will take effect. The Act provides for the automatic sealing of certain criminal convictions after a specified time period. It will also require greater disclosure…
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/ Criminal Law, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
In this episode of The Proskauer Brief we are joined by partner Guy Brenner, who leads Proskauer’s D.C. Labor & Employment practice and is co-head of the Counseling, Training & Pay Equity Group, and Jonathan Slowik, senior…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently published “Artificial Intelligence and Worker Well-Being: Principles and Best Practices for Developers and Employers,” which is intended to inform employers’ use of…
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/ Indigenous Peoples, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
With Election Day quickly approaching, it is the right time for employers to refresh themselves on the various protections that may exist for their employees when it comes to voting and other political activities. Below is an…
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/ Civil Rights, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law
On October 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) gave notice that it would appeal a Texas federal court’s decision halting its non-compete rule (the “Rule”) from taking effect as to all employers nationwide. The appeal…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment Law
The UK Labour Government published the Employment Rights Bill (“Bill”) last week, alongside a “Next Steps to Make Work Pay” plan (“Plan”), introducing several key employment law changes that will impact all UK businesses,…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On September 24, 2024, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced the publication of an AI & Inclusive Hiring Framework (the “Framework”). As discussed below, the Framework sets forth ten “Focus Areas” for…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
New Jersey is now poised to join a growing list of states that have enacted pay transparency laws. On September 28, 2024, the New Jersey legislature passed a bill (S2310/A4151) after the Senate voted unanimously to approve the…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
In the second in a series of blogs examining often overlooked or misunderstood provisions of common employment laws, today we are covering four things employers may not know about the federal Uniformed Services Employment and…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In its September 11, 2024 opinion in Mayfield v. Department of Labor, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the U.S. Department of Labor’s explicitly delegated authority to “define” and “delimit” the…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
On July 31, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed into law new legislation that requires employers with 25 or more employees in Massachusetts to include pay range in job ads. The statute requires that the posted pay…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On September 5, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Retail Worker Safety Act, a bill amending the New York Labor Law to impose certain workplace violence prevention requirements on covered retail…
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/ Business Torts, Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment Law
The district court has once again upheld enforcement of the New Jersey Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights (the “Law”). The decision comes in response to a follow-up challenge by a coalition of staffing agency industry groups,…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Torts, Labor & Employment Law
