Louisiana has enacted legislation (Senate Bill 200), which will require employers with 20 or more employees to provide leave to employees for genetic testing and cancer screening when medically necessary. The changes take effect Aug. 1, 2023. The details When medically necessary, an employer ...

Hawaii has enacted legislation (Senate Bill 1057), which requires employers with 50 or more employees to disclose in job listings the hourly rate or salary range for the position. Senate Bill 1057 also broadens the state’s equal pay law. The changes take effect Jan. 1, 2024. The ...

Georgia has enacted legislation (Senate Bill 129) that amends the rules governing an employee’s entitlement to time off to vote in elections. The changes take effect July 1, 2023. The details Existing Law ...

Colorado has enacted legislation (Senate Bill 23-172), which prohibits discrimination based on marital status, redefines harassment under state law, clarifies the protections for individuals with disabilities, and extends recordkeeping requirements. The changes take effect Aug. 7, 2023. The ...

The Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) has issued updated regulations detailing how employers may deduct the reasonable cost of board and lodging for employees from the state minimum wage. These regulations are effective July 28, 2023. The details: The updated ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new version of Form I-9 (I-9) to verify the identity and employment authorization of employees and a new alternative procedure to the in-person physical document examination method that employers have followed as part of the I-9 ...

This notice is to clarify how  in Groff v. DeJoy, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that when establishing an undue hardship in the context of providing reasonable accommodations for employees’ religious beliefs and practices, employers must demonstrate substantial increased costs in ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it is tentatively scheduled to begin accepting EEO-1 reports for 2022 via its portal in the fall of 2023. Previously, the EEOC had expected to start the process in mid-July 2023. The reason for the delay is that the EEOC ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it is tentatively scheduled to begin accepting EEO-1 reports for 2022 via its portal in the fall of 2023. Previously, the EEOC had expected to start the process in mid-July 2023. The reason for the delay is that the EEOC ...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new version of Form I-9 (I-9) to verify the identity and employment authorization of employees and a new alternative procedure to the in-person physical document examination method that employers have followed as part of the I-9 ...