Wage Transparency Act of 2024 – D.C. Act 25-367
On January 12, 2024, the Mayor of Washington, D.C., signed DC Act 25-367, amending the Wage Transparency Act of 2014 (the “Act”) to require private employers to include salary information in job postings and prohibit them from asking applicants about salary history.
The Act and its…
At the end of the 2024 legislative session, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed several bills into law, which amended several employment-related statutes addressing paid sick and leave time, pregnancy accommodation and leave, restrictive covenants, and employee misclassification.…
Mothering Justice Decision
On July 31, 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court decided Mothering Justice et al. v. Attorney General et al. In that case, the Court reinstated two laws, the Earned Sick Time Act and the Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act, that appeared on the Michigan state ballot in September 2018. After having been voted…
Institutions of Higher Education Can No Longer Establish or Maintain DEI Offices
Texas is one of several states that have implemented laws aimed at eliminating DEI offices and initiatives for publicly funded institutions.
Effective January 1, 2024, Texan institutions of higher education (e.g., the University of Texas) are no longer permitted to establish or maintain…
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace
The EEOC’s Enforcement Guidance guidelines on harassment in the Workplace were issued on April 29, 2024. In the guidance, the EEOC presents a legal analysis of standards for harassment and employer liability applicable to claims of harassment under the EEO statutes enforced by…
With 2025 quickly approaching, Illinois employers should be aware of new changes in Illinois state employment laws. There are a number of Illinois employment laws and amendments that have either recently gone into effect or are set to go into effect January 1, 2025. This post is a summary of the new laws that went…
Earlier today, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted summary judgment in favor of the state of Texas and a coalition of business organizations, striking down the Department of Labor’s regulations mandating significant increases to the salary basis for white-collar employees. As a result, the increases in salary implemented last…
Yesterday, a federal court in Texas issued a nationwide injunction preventing the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning nearly all employee non-compete agreements from taking effect on September 4, 2024. The case, Ryan LLC et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, Case No. 3:24-cv-00986 (N.D. Tex.), was brought by a Texas tax preparation company and the U.S.…
On Wednesday, July 31, 2024, the Michigan Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Mothering Justice et al. v. Attorney General et al. In this case, community organizations challenged the State Attorney General’s determination that the Michigan Legislature could adopt a citizen initiative ballot proposal and later amend it in the same legislative session. The…
On July 3, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction in Ryan et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, preventing the FTC’s rule banning most noncompetes from going into effect, but only for the party who brought the litigation challenging the rule,…
