13 September 2026 EN ES
Employment Bench

Workplace law for the people who have to apply it on Monday

In this edition

  1. If EEO-1 disappears, keep the data that lets you defend pay and promotion decisions
  2. Stop a Workplace Dispute From Becoming a Tort Claim: A Five-Step Triage Checklist for HR and Legal
  3. Turn Canada’s soft August jobs report into a defensible workforce plan
  4. When a Bank-Fraud Probe Touches an Employee: HR's Termination Checklist
  5. What the Proposed Contractor Rule Actually Changes
04 Hiring & Firing

What the Proposed Contractor Rule Actually Changes

A federal rewrite of the contractor test is only proposed so far. Here's what already changed in enforcement, and why your state's test still governs regardless.

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06 Hiring & Firing

What Changed in Pay Transparency for Job Postings

Delaware and Maine just added new posting rules, and New Jersey and California tightened existing ones. What the law requires now, and what still counts as a best guess.

07 Hiring & Firing

The FTC's Noncompete Ban Is Gone. Here's What Replaced It.

The FTC dropped its nationwide noncompete ban and moved to case-by-case enforcement. Here's what the state patchwork now requires, and what's merely the safer choice.

09 Policy

Pay Transparency Laws Are Not All the Same Law

More than a dozen states now require some form of pay transparency. What counts as compliant in one state can be a violation in the next.

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