New Jersey’s new pay transparency requirements and proposed changes to an independent contractor classification test and temporary-worker protections demonstrate how the state remains a hot spot for wage and hour activity. Here, Law360 explores three developments to watch.
A few states are mulling measures that would empower their labor arbiters to step in for the National Labor Relations Board as its staff struggles and the president's firing of a board member and failure to nominate new ones keep the agency from functioning fully.
The first half of 2025 saw federal courts knock down key provisions of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations and guidance that aimed to safeguard pregnant workers and LGBTQ employees, but experts say the legal underpinnings of those policies are still intact.