News & Analysis

Illinois state and local legislatures kept busy in 2023 with the enactment of numerous new labor and employment laws, including significant changes to paid and sick leave for employees and new protections for temporary laborers and independent contractors

Pennsylvania and Philadelphia recently enacted changes that impact employer criminal background screening.

On November 14, 2023, the FDIC published proposed revised regulations concerning Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, to conform with the Fair Hiring in Banking Act, which was enacted on and immediately effective as of December 23, 2022.

Two new laws will take effect next year that restrict how employers may respond to worker off-duty cannabis use.

California’s legislature covered a wide array of labor and employment law topics this legislative session.

On July 24, 2023, the Office of Administrative Law approved the California Civil Rights Council’s proposed modifications to certain background check regulations.

In the final hours of the 2023 legislative session, the New York Legislature passed Assembly Bill 1029C / Senate Bill 7551A, the “Clean Slate Act.”

On April 24, 2023, the City of Chicago enacted an amended ban-the-box ordinance that takes immediate effect.

The District of Columbia continues to implement broad employment initiatives, ranging from wage and hour laws to stricter civil penalties.

Lawmakers in Sacramento seek to outright ban criminal background checks by most private sector employers in California in a bill that would scrap California’s existing fair chance law and replace it with the most restrictive fair chance law in the U.S.