Kerri Beatty 
As you may be aware, private employers with at least 100 employees must complete and file an EEO-1 Report that organizes employee demographic data by employee job category, as well as gender and race/ethnicity, and submit that data to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and the U.S. Department of Labor on an annual basis. … Read more
As a reminder, the New York Retail Worker Safety Act, which will impose significant workplace violence prevention requirements on retail employers will take effect on June 2, 2025. Under the new law, covered employers will be required to (1) implement a written retail workplace violence prevention policy, (2) conduct workplace violence prevention training, and (3) … Read more
On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) released a Field Assistance Bulletin that provides guidance regarding the analysis to apply when determining employee or independent contractor status for purposes of enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The DOL announced that it will no longer apply the 2024 independent contractor rule and … Read more
On April 23, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at eliminating the use of disparate-impact liability and ordering federal enforcement agencies to stop the enforcement of antidiscrimination laws based on disparate impact theories. Disparate impact liability is a legal theory that is codified in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that allows … Read more
On April 2, 2025, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) issued a new version of the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, with some minor changes to align with statutory language and updated the DHS Privacy Notice. The revised Form I-9 with an edition date of January 20, 2025 and an expiration date of May … Read more
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) recently released the decision Stericycle Inc., which revises the test for determining whether an employer’s workplace policies comply with the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). Specifically, the decision reverses the Board’s former decision in Boeing Co. and adopts a new test: specifically, could a worker reasonably read, or interpret, a … Read more