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January 15, 2025
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Category: State and Local Law

Notable State Workplace Laws That Went Into Effect on January 1, 2025

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a state-by-state digest of notable State and Local Laws Effective January 1, 2025, as well as a digest of Minimum Wage Increases Effective January 1, 2025. CWC’s digests show that many new state laws relate to various types of paid leave. Pay transparency and captive audience bans are...
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January 14, 2025
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Category: Compensation

Biden Administration Withdraws Proposed Federal Contractor Pay Transparency Rule

The Biden Administration has withdrawn its proposed federal contractor pay transparency regulations. The regulations would have prohibited federal contractors from considering job applicants’ compensation history and would have required contractors to disclose the compensation for work on federal contracts in their job advertisements. The Biden Administration has also withdrawn the government-wide procurement policy, adopted in response to Executive Order 14069, on which the...
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January 13, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Finalizes New Bounty Hunter Program

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has published a final rule implementing its bounty hunter program. The rule provides that NHTSA may pay a monetary award to a whistleblower who provides original information that leads to the successful resolution of an enforcement action for violations of laws related to the manufacture or sale of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. The...
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January 09, 2025
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Category: Data and Statistics

Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 2023 Indicates Significant Decrease in Workplace Homicides

The number of workplace homicides dropped significantly in 2023 compared with 2022, while the number of suicides occurring in U.S. workplaces increased, according to the government’s most recent survey of workplace fatalities. Overall, workplace homicides and suicides accounted for 14% of total fatal occupational injuries in 2023, down from 14.4% in 2022, according to data from the national Census of...
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January 09, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

EEOC and OFCCP Modify Long-Standing MOU; DOJ Ends Its Participation

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) December 17, 2024, outlining how they will share information and process discrimination charges and complaints. Before doing so, the agencies rescinded a similar 2020 MOU that included the Department of Justice. The EEOC enforces Title VII of the 1964 Civil...
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January 06, 2025
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Last Biden Regulatory Agenda Shows Limited Progress on Employment-Related Regulations

The Biden Administration has published the Fall 2024 semi-annual regulatory agenda. The unveiling of the current administration’s final regulatory agenda is largely an academic exercise in view of the Trump Administration’s imminent arrival, but it shows that the Biden Administration made little progress on workplace regulatory priorities in the last few months. According to the agenda: EEOC had planned to...
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January 06, 2025
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Category: Discrimination and Harassment

New EEOC Fact Sheet Highlights Compliance Risks Related to Wearable Technologies in the Workplace

Wearable technologies in the workplace are the subject of a fact sheet released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on December 19, 2024. Examples of wearable devices include smart watches that track employees’ activities or monitor their condition, proximity sensors that warn wearers of nearby hazards, smart glasses and helmets that measure the brain’s electrical activity, and GPS devices that...
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January 02, 2025
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Category: Immigration

DHS Issues Another Rule Seeking To Modernize the H-1B Visa Program

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published a second final rule aimed at modernizing the H-1B specialty occupation visa program. The “Modernizing H-1B Requirements” final rule goes into effect January 17, 2025. In February 2024, USCIS published the first part of its H-1B modernization rule, which implemented a new lottery process to reduce fraud....
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December 30, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: November/December 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents an Interstate memo, which covers developments since October 2024. Several states took actions related to paid leave laws: Alaska’s Ballot Measure 1 provides up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per year. Maine’s Department of Labor published final rules for the Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program....
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December 23, 2024
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Category: Agency Enforcement

Congress Again Averts Government Shutdown by Approving 3-Month Funding Extension

With the government scheduled to run out of funding on December 20, Congress approved a short-term stopgap measure to keep the doors open through March 28, 2025. This year, Congress again failed to pass an annual appropriations bill to fund the federal government before the new fiscal began October 1. Instead, lawmakers enacted a three-month Continuing Resolution that kept government...
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