If EEO-1 disappears, keep the data that lets you defend pay and promotion decisions
If the filing stops, your job-level demographic, pay, and promotion records become the main evidence for defending pay and promotion decisions.
Workplace law for the people who have to apply it on Monday
If the filing stops, your job-level demographic, pay, and promotion records become the main evidence for defending pay and promotion decisions.
A workplace dispute becomes a tort risk when duty, harm, and fault can be connected to an injury; triage early and preserve the record.
A soft jobs report is not legal cover to cut or freeze; it is a prompt to document the business reason, affected roles, alternatives, and decision owner.
HR should not become a second investigator: limit questions, keep the probe quiet, and terminate only on documented, employment-relevant grounds.
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.
A city comptroller reviewed how New York enforces its AI-hiring bias-audit law and found a system barely functioning. What that means for employers using these tools.
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.
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.
Arbitration clauses get blamed for locking workers out of a fair hearing. The AAA's own cost rules tell a more specific story than that reputation.
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.
An unfair labor practice charge does not sit quietly waiting for an agent to notice it. What the intake process actually requires, and how fast it moves.