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On April 25, 2024, Attorneys General from 17 states commenced a lawsuit in federal court against the EEOC seeking to enjoin the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act’s (“PWFA”) final regulations published on April 19, 2024. The ...
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a final rule effectively banning all existing noncompete agreements and prohibiting new noncompetes, concluding that noncompetes are an unfair method of competition under Section 5 ...
As we previously reported https://www.felhaber.com/changes-to-salary-basis-thresholds-may-be-coming-soon/, the U.S. Department of Labor previously published a proposed rule which would significantly change the salary threshold for exempt employees under the FLSA. Earlier today, the DOL published the final ...
On April 19, 2024, the EEOC published the final regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), which will be codified in 29 CFR 1636 and will go into effect as of June 18, 2024. ...
On April 1, 2024, OSHA published its final rule clarifying that employees may designate non-employee third parties as their representative during an OSHA inspection. This final rule amends 29 CFR § 1903.8(c) by making two effective ...
Back in September (2023), the U.S. Department of Labor published a rule that markedly changed the salary thresholds for some of the key white collar exemptions, including, for example, the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions. ...
On March 8, 2024, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated a new rule promulgated by the National Labor Relations Board on joint employment status (“New Rule”). This same Court previously ...
The purpose of this E-Alert is to inform firm clients about some important developments under federal labor law and the National Labor Relations Board’s (“Board”) recent enforcement activities. In mid-2023, the Board issued a decision, ...