Sunday, July 5, 2026Labor & Employment Law
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Immigration - Visas
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposed rule that would eliminate the longstanding duration of status system for individuals admitted as foreign students, exchange visitors, or representatives of foreign media has been submitted to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (
HR - Privacy & Surveillance
Baseball is often referred to as “America’s pastime,” but for some baseball fans, it may double as worktime. While employers have long known that workers occasionally play hooky to attend afternoon ballgames, viral videos and photos now show employees openly using laptops in the stands, raising lega
Federal Gov't - DOL
In Washington, D.C., there is a saying: “personnel is policy.” In this episode of our Dirty Steel-Toe Boots podcast series, shareholders Phillip Russell (Tampa) and Jim Plunkett (Washington) break down the significance of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s departure and the rise of Acting Secreta
Multinational Employers
In this podcast, Kathryn Bird (Toronto), Erin Schachter (Montréal), and Shir Fulga (Toronto) examine the Ontario Divisional Court’s 2025 decision in Bokhari v. Top Medical Transport Center Services, which reviewed the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s preliminary dismissal of a disability discrimin
Title VII - General
In this episode of our Litigation Lens podcast series, shareholders Michael Nail (Greenville) and Sarah Zucco (New York) examine a recent First Circuit decision addressing whether placing an employee on a performance improvement plan (PIP) constitutes an adverse employment action under the Supreme C
OSHA - General
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has increasingly emphasized that stress, anxiety, and burnout can contribute to accidents and reduced productivity, making mental wellness a significant part of its modern safety framework since the agency released a fact sheet on workplace me
Multinational Employers
A perennial issue in German labor law practice: If termination without notice is being considered due to a strong suspicion of a serious breach of duty (termination on suspicion), the employer must promptly hear the affected employee before issuing the termination. But what applies if the affected e
Virginia
Joining approximately twenty-five other state or local jurisdictions, two states—Maine and Virginia—have enacted new pay transparency requirements slated to take effect in July 2026. Virginia’s House Bill (HB) 636 / Senate Bill (SB) 215 takes effect on July 1, 2026, and Maine’s Legislative Document
Maine
On April 13, 2026, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a law that updates the state’s substance use testing rules and further limits employers’ entitlement to conduct testing on employees and job applicants.
Multinational Employers
On Labor Day, May 1, 2026, a decree was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation ( Diario Oficial de la Federación (DOF)) reforming several provisions of the Federal Labor Law ( Ley Federal del Trabajo (FLL)) to incorporate the modifications and new obligations arising from the recent ame
Multinational Employers
In its ruling of January 29, 2026 (Ref. No. 4 SLa 290/24), Germany’s Saxony Regional Labor Court ( Landesarbeitsgericht (LAG)) held that a lawful strike supersedes previously approved vacation leave, meaning that participating employees may receive no pay for that period and may forfeit the correspo
Multinational Employers
As the transposition deadline of 7 June 2026 looms closer, EU member states remain at vastly different stages of implementing the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
Multinational Employers
On March 13, 2026, the British Columbia Court of Appeal released Chao v. Hallmark Poultry Processors Ltd. , unanimously dismissing an employee’s appeal and affirming that his employer had just cause to terminate an employee, without compensation, for violating a workplace COVID-19 safety policy.
New Jersey - General
In this podcast, Morristown shareholders Justine Abrams and Michael Nacchio break down the latest developments shaping New Jersey employment law. They cover key updates including the expansion of the New Jersey Family Leave Act, new pay transparency regulations, a landmark earned sick leave ruling,
Oklahoma
Effective November 1, 2026, Oklahoma House Bill (HB) 3127 makes important changes to the state’s medical marijuana employment protections under 63 O.S. § 427.8 that affect all Oklahoma employers.
California - Cal/OSHA
In this podcast, shareholders Kevin Bland (Orange County) and Karen Tynan (Sacramento), who is chair of the firm’s Workplace Safety and Health Practice Group, discuss the unique aspects of Cal/OSHA discovery, which differs significantly from federal OSHA and civil litigation discovery processes. Kar
Federal Gov't - General
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California - WARN Act
The California Legislature recently introduced a bill ( Senate Bill (SB) 951 ) that would establish the California Worker Technological Displacement Act—a first-of-its-kind law that would require employers to provide advance written notice when artificial intelligence (AI) or automation drives workf
FLSA - Retaliation
In Sonderling v. Ikes Artisan Pizza LLC , the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is pursuing a legal theory that, if adopted by the court, would allow the DOL to seek punitive damages in Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) retaliation lawsuits.
FLSA - General
With summer approaching, many employers are looking to hire interns to increase staffing during a busy season or to build a pipeline for future full-time hiring. But employers need to be careful about making decisions to allow any work to go unpaid.