Employment Law This Week
For employers navigating risk, workforce, and the bottom line. Employment Law This Week® delivers the employment and labor developments that matter—without the noise. Part of the Epstein Becker Green Insights Network.
Episodes
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Limits on Autom...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Paid Leave Redu...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- New Employee Access Right: Starting November 8, 2026, New York employers must allow current and former employees to access their personnel files up to two times per calendar year, and employers must produce the files within five business days.
- Notification and Response Rights: An employer must notify an employee within 10 days of placing any negative information in t...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Candidate Fraud...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- DOL's Visa Crac...
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- NLRB Shifts to ...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- State-Led Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legislation: Read more
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- DOL Opinion Letter FLSA2026-9: The U.S. Departm...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Regulatory Agenda: The EEOC is pursuing sweeping changes aligned with the current administration's deregulatory priorities, including rescission of decades-old guidance on discrimination.
- EEO-1 Reporting Changes: A proposed rule to eliminate EEO-1 and companion reporting requirements is in the public comment stage (...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Severance Agreement Overhaul: The No Severance Ultimatums Act, awaiting Governor Kathy Hochul's signature, would extend a 21-day review period plus a seven-day revocation period to all employees and require severance agreements to explicitly state that the employee has the r...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- EEOC's New Direction: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has scrapped its two-year-old enforcement priorities and rescinded 40-year-old affirmative action guidance in favor of a federal strategy that deprioritizes disparate impact liability and focuses enforcement on disparate treatment claims.
- State-Level Backlash: Multiple states—including Cal...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Agencies Lose Their Independence: In Trump v. Slaughter, the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are not "independent." The NLRB's Board members and General Counsel serve at the President's pleasure and can be removed at any time, for any reason—or for no reason.
- The Ripple Effect on the NLRB...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Federal Agencies Propose Fertility Benefit Expansion: The U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury have issued a proposed rule to allow employers to provide fertility coverage as a limited excepted benefit, exempt from the Affordable Care Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's portability requirements.
- DOT Clar...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- States Lead on Workplace AI: With federal regulators slowing new rules, individual states are setting their own requirements for employers that use artificial intelligence (AI), creating a patchwork for multistate workforces.
- California's Executive Order: Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order (EO) targeting AI-driven labor market disruption and directing st...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Two Federal Agencies Target DEI: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is urging its employees to file whistleblower complaints and report diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities that violate the administration's ban. Additionally, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a 2025-2029 National Enforcement Plan that prioritizes enforcemen...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- EEOC Proposes Eliminating EEO-1 Reports: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is proposing the complete elimination of EEO-1 reports (which include employee demographic data, such as race and gender), along with the rescission of EEO-2, EEO-3, EEO-4, and EEO-5 reports.
- Fifth Circuit Rules on Remote Work Accommodations: The U.S...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Virginia and Maine Pay Transparency Laws: Both ...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- Arbitration Agr...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- DOL Proposes Joint Employer Rule: The Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed a rule reinstating the economic realities test for joint employer liability under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, prompting employers with s...
What employers should know about key developments this week:
- NLRB Nomination...
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