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Florida - General
Businesses in the agriculture, construction, and tourism industries may need to take extra safety precautions as required under federal and state laws to protect their employees in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, where smoke from wildfires that ignited in April 2026 are causing unhealthy air q
HR - General
In this podcast, Robert Rodriguez (Sacramento) and Tom Bellifemine (Morristown) explore how employers can use restraining orders and injunctive relief as proactive tools to protect their workplaces from violence and disruptive behavior. Tom and Robert, who co-chairs the firm’s Workplace Violence Pre
HR - General
Spring is the season for clearing out the old and putting one’s house in order—and for life science employers, 2026 brings a number of employment and labor law developments that may require a fresh review.
California - Fair Employment And Housing Act
California employers familiar with the state’s already complex anti-discrimination laws will want to pay close attention to Assembly Bill (AB) 2064 , which would add “criminal history” as a new protected characteristic under both the Unruh Civil Rights Act (Civil Code Section 51) and the California
HR - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In response to concerns about the rapidly changing economy and the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the labor market, the White House is encouraging employers to adopt AI tools and train workers to effectively leverage them, as evidenced by the U.S. Department of Labor’s new guidance to pro
Sex Discrimination - Pregnancy
Some employees are shouldering the emotional and physical toll of infertility as Mother’s Day and Father’s Day approach. Employers have legal obligations to permit time off and certain accommodations for workers undergoing fertility treatments.
Benefits - General
On April 20, 2026, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued new guidance on changes made by the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) to educational assistance programs under Section 127 of the Internal Revenue Code, notably reflecting that the tax exclusion for educational assistance programs wi
California - General
In the fifth and final episode of this five-part podcast series, Karen Tynan (shareholder, Sacramento) and Robert Rodriguez (shareholder, Sacramento), who are co-chairs of Ogletree’s Workplace Violence Prevention Practice Group,, discuss how employers can build a high reliability workplace violence
California - Labor Law
A California appellate court recently issued a decision that reinforced the growing trend that an employee’s representative claims under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) may be extinguished when the employee loses in arbitration on the underlying individual claims.
Sex Discrimination - Pregnancy
With Mother’s Day and Father’s Day approaching, employers may want to consider the benefits and protections afforded to employees who become pregnant or welcome a child to the family, as well as the employer’s legal responsibilities.
HR - Education Industry
A federal judge in Massachusetts has extended a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS) survey requirement for approximately 178 additional colleges and universities in a lawsuit challenging the data-collection directive as un
Maryland
In conjunction with the issuance of final regulations to implement the forthcoming paid family and medical leave insurance (FAMLI) program, the Maryland Department of Labor (MDOL) has also completely revamped its FAMLI website to provide new and useful resources for employers (and others).
California - General
On April 7, 2026, a California appellate court enforced an arbitration agreement spanning three onboarding documents. The court held that ambiguities among the documents did not negate the parties’ clear intent to arbitrate. It also found the agreement was not unconscionable.
California - Cal/OSHA
On Friday, April 24, 2026, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board released a revised draft workplace violence regulation for general industry that clarifies the definition of small employer and specifies the elements of a workplace violence prevention plan.
Multinational Employers
A flurry of employment law reforms in the United Arab Emirates—a business-friendly area that remains firmly rooted in traditional values and national identity—in recent years has caught the attention of multinational employers and expatriates alike, but do these changes represent a genuine shift tow
Connecticut - Wage & Hour
On March 3, 2026, Governor Ned Lamont signed Senate Bill (SB) 298 into law, ushering in significant new standards applicable to warehouse workers and logistics operations in Connecticut.
Federal Gov't - General
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HR - Arbitration Issues
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel—a doctrine under which a party different from the party in the original action seeks to preclude the opposing party from relitigating an issue decided against it—cannot be used to invalidate hundreds of ar
HR - Drugs & Alcohol
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has reclassified certain marijuana and marijuana-containing products to Schedule III controlled substances, which recognizes a drug’s potential legitimate medical use, a significant change in federal drug policy that could have implications for employers and work
Maryland
On March 30, 2026, the Maryland Department of Labor (MDOL) published its final regulations implementing the state’s long-impending Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program, and this—Part III of this three-part series—summarizes the regulations covering Equivalent Private Insurance Plans (E