Expert Analysis

Top 10 Employer Resolutions For 2025

While companies must monitor for policy shifts under the new administration in 2025, it will also be a year to pla... (more story)

NLRB Likely To Fill Vacuum After NMB Jurisdiction Ruling

The National Mediation Board's recent ruling in Swissport Cargo Services LP abandoned decades of precedent by conc... (more story)

What To Expect From EEOC Next Year After An Active 2024

While highlights this year for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission include its first-ever Pregnant Wo... (more story)

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4 Contract Negotiations To Keep An Eye On In 2025

While it may appear that unions will face the bulk of the headwinds coming toward the collective bargaining landscape in 2025, with the coming change in presidential administration and cooling inflation, exper... (more story)

Pa. Cases To Watch In 2025: Climate Change And Skill Games

President-elect Donald Trump's impending return to the White House casts a new light on certain pending cases in Pennsylvania courts with federal implications, such as a suburban Philadelphia county's climate ... (more story)

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NLRB Battleground Shifts To Appeals Courts In 2025

Last year's hottest labor law issue is poised to get even hotter in 2025 as more courts weigh in on a growing pile of suits challenging the National Labor Relations Board's constitutionality, a development tha... (more story)

Gov't Contracts Cases To Watch In 2025

Federal courts in 2025 are expected to rehear a finding underpinning a high-profile commercial item contracting dispute, to determine the allowability of contentious labor-related clauses in federal contracts,... (more story)

NLRB Says Co. Unlawfully Insisted Upon Multiemployer Talks

A Michigan paving company violated federal labor law by insisting that a union engage in multiemployer bargaining and locking out workers in an effort to force it to do so, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.

3rd Circ. Must Make Newspaper Rescind Changes, NLRB Says

The National Labor Relations Board asked the Third Circuit to greenlight an injunction against the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette involving a yearslong negotiating dispute with a NewsGuild affiliate,... (more story)

NLRB Reverses Judge On Rail Union's Duty To Provide Notes

The National Labor Relations Board reversed an agency judge's finding that a rail workers union breached its duty of fair representation by refusing to show a worker its notes from an investigatory meeting tha... (more story)

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3 COVID-19 Vaccine Cases To Keep An Eye On In 2025

While it's been nearly five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic and four years since the first vaccines were authorized, workplace vaccination mandate lawsuits will st... (more story)

Courts Will Flesh Out High Court's Muldrow Ruling In 2025

Federal courts are poised in the New Year to tackle big questions spurred by the U.S. Supreme Court's April opinion easing the requirements for bringing workplace bias claims, including which anti-discriminati... (more story)

Employment attorneys can expect to see developments throughout this year in discrimination class actions involving artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools at Workday, alleged racist harassment at Tesla and a lawsuit over Sheetz’s criminal background screens. (iStock.com/designer491)
3 Workplace Discrimination Class Actions To Watch In 2025

A cutting-edge discrimination lawsuit over Workday's artificial intelligence-powered hiring tools, a group of Tesla workers' legal battle over alleged racist harassment, and a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity... (more story)

Courts Will Confront Hazy Nexus Of PWFA, ADA In 2025

Where distinctions lie between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the recently enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act can be a vexing question for employers, but experts said the new year will give courts ... (more story)

Blake Lively Accuses 'It Ends With Us' Star Of Sex Harassment

Blake Lively has filed a legal complaint in California against her "It Ends With Us" co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment on set and trying to orchestrate a public relations ... (more story)

2nd Circ. Won't Ax Retrial, $1 Verdict In Sex Harassment Suit

The Second Circuit refused to reopen a lawsuit claiming a Manhattan dental practice allowed a supervisor to sexually harass female employees, upholding a lower court's decision to nix a nearly $2.6 million jur... (more story)

EEOC, Ala. Medical Center Get OK For Deal In ADA Suit

An Alabama medical center will shell out $60,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit claiming the organization showed an employee the exit door after requesting to switch departments ... (more story)

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Washington Cases To Watch In 2025

Washington's highest court will take a closer look this year at a Monsanto toxic tort verdict worth $185 million, a pay disclosure requirement that's triggered a wave of lawsuits against employers, and a new s... (more story)

3 Biden-Era Wage Regs That Could Sink In 2025

The Biden administration's rules determining overtime eligibility, sorting out whether workers are independent contractors and raising federal contractors' minimum wage face uncertainty in 2025. Here, Law360 l... (more story)

States could act to carry out an increase of the salary threshold to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime exemption, a step that was the intended effect of a Department of Labor rule since struck down in court. (iStock.com/Andrei Sauko)
Key W&H Legislative Trends For 2025

In 2025, states and cities will intensify their efforts to experiment with employment law in the shadow of a Republican-controlled federal government, be it by expanding overtime protections for workers or ref... (more story)

California Legislation And Regulations To Watch In 2025

California legal experts anticipate a busy 2025 in regulatory and legislative affairs, particularly as lawmakers and regulators ready the Golden State for potential attacks from the incoming Trump administrati... (more story)

Connecticut Cases To Watch In 2025: Ethics, Mergers & Actors

A suit over McCarter & English LLP's municipal loan advice and a Yale-owned heath network's legal battle over a beleaguered acquisition deal are just two multimillion-dollar cases that will keep Connecticut co... (more story)

DOL Wants Full 9th Circ. Review Of Contractor Wage Ruling

A split Ninth Circuit panel decision that blocked President Joe Biden from raising federal contractors' minimum wage to $15 an hour shrinks the president's power, the U.S. Department of Labor said, urging the ... (more story)

6th Circ. Says Trial Needed To Decide If FLSA Violations Willful

The Sixth Circuit has upended an order finding a horse training company willfully violated the Fair Labor Standards Act when it failed to pay workers overtime wages, saying the question of whether it knowingly... (more story)