The U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and now state attorneys general, have set their sights on staffing companies in their evolving efforts to examine labor markets through an antitrust lens.
The Massachusetts legislature has introduced a series of employment- and labor-related bills that, if enacted, will require employers across the Commonwealth to establish, revisit or revise policies and practices.
Effective January 1, 2024, the Rhode Island Payment of Wages Act will make a knowing and willful wage and hour violation punishable as a criminal felony.
On August 7, 2023, the Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL) filed Emergency Rules to implement amendments to the Illinois Day and Temporary Labor Services Act.
On August 4, 2023, Governor JB Pritzker signed the Freelance Worker Protection Act (FWPA) (HB1122) into law, establishing strict protections for freelance workers.
For the past several years, we have reported on employment and labor laws taking effect mid-year. Increasingly, new compliance challenges are not taking a summer vacation.
On June 13, 2023, the NLRB issued its long-awaited decision in The Atlanta Opera, in which it overturned prior law (SuperShuttle DFW, Inc.) and reinstated a narrower test for “independent contractor” (as opposed to “employee”) under the NLRA.
