The ruling is a victory for Chair Andrea Lucas as she and the agency implement a key component of President Donald Trump’s workplace civil rights agenda. The ruling is a victory for Chair Andrea Lucas as she and the agency implement a key component of President...
“Even where federal enforcement has softened, states are often stepping in and pushing litigation forward,” Norton Rose Fulbright’s U.S. head of litigation and disputes said.
HR’s governance and compliance layer is the most undervalued part of the CHRO tech stack, according to a new market analysis published by Norwest Venture Partners. According to the report, Q1 2026 saw $2.8 billion flow across 97 HR tech deals, including key moves...
SPOKANE, WA – The U.S. Department of Labor has secured a federal consent judgment requiring four Washington-based restaurants to pay $750,000 in back wages and damages to 42 workers after an investigation uncovered minimum wage and overtime violations of the Fair...
A media company’s decision to fire a white anchor after she made a racially insensitive remark on live TV did not amount to race discrimination, the Fifth Circuit held, affirming a ruling in the employer’s favor. The sticking point: The employee had been warned about...
Key Takeaways: The Fourth Circuit held that employees that settled and released their individual claims after the District Court decertified the class and collective actions had waived their claims and, thus, lacked standing to bring an appeal. This decision was made...
On June 11, 2026, the Trump administration filed a notice of appeal challenging the U.S District Court for the District of Massachusetts’s June 8, 2026, decision vacating the $100,000 H-1B fee requirement. Judge Leo T. Sorokin granted the government’s motion to stay...
On June 4, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a revised National Enforcement Plan (NEP). The NEP sets forth the agency’s enforcement agenda and supersedes (and starkly departs from) the 2024-2028 Strategic Enforcement Plan. (That departure...
Assume you are an employer that attracts talent and uses the H-1B visa to bring those “specialty occupations” to your workforce. Assume that since September 21, 2025, the cost of hiring employees and using the H-1B visa went up $100,000 — because it did. Assume that...
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