Under current federal law, employers may legally require workers to attend meetings during working hours that concern the employer’s views on politics, religion and similar matters.
The new law is scheduled to take effect immediately and is aimed at prohibiting employers from discharging or disciplining employees who refuse to attend mandatory employer-sponsored meetings.
The new rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on August 1, taking effect 60 days later on September 30, 2024. The Final Rule will apply to petitions filed after September 30, 2024.
After years of litigation, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 22, a voter-approved law allowing app-based drivers to work as independent contractors.
On July 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a limited stay and preliminary injunction of the FTC’s final rule that would render almost all non-compete agreements, with very limited exceptions, unenforceable.
On July 2, 2024, OSHA released the text of its highly anticipated proposed standard that, if finalized, would create the first federal standard aimed at protecting workers from exposure to heat hazards in the workplace, whether indoors or outdoors.
At the end of its 2024 term, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down four decisions limiting the power of federal agencies. While none of those decisions involved a labor and employment agency, all of them could transform labor and employment law.
A Texas federal court has issued a limited injunction of the DOL’s new rule increasing the minimum salary that certain executive, administrative, and professional employees must be paid to qualify for the so-called “white-collar” exemption under the FLSA.
On Friday, June 28, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Chevron, USA Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council. Chevron often required courts to defer to federal agencies when those agencies were interpreting statutes they administer.
