The 2024 EEO-1 Component Data Collection opened on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. The deadline to file the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 report is Tuesday, June 24, 2025. Filers should read the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 Instruction Booklet to ensure they are in compliance with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) substantive filing ...
Effective January 2025, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hiked the maximum fines for workplace safety violations. As an example, the maximum fine for a “serious” violation is now $16,550 per violation, and the maximum fine for a “willful” or “repeated” violation is now $165,514 per violation.
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By: Tommy Rogers J.D.*
It has been a busy start to President Trump’s second term in office. For some, if not most employers, it can be difficult to keep up as new Executive Orders, mandates and press releases seem to be issued daily. Here are some of the key labor updates through the first 50 days of the Trump Administration.
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On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168 titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” Among several other provisions, the Executive Order instructed federal agencies and federal employees to:
- “Enforce laws concerning sex-based rights ...
In 2024, Ohio employers paid over $180,000,000 in lost time expenses after workplace injuries, with an average cost of $37,000 per claim in lost time expenses alone. One of the best ways to reduce lost time expenses is by offering light duty work to an injured worker after a workplace injury. Light duty work not only reduces claim expenses for the ...
For those who do not practice in the criminal realm, a few changes have come out recently that might impact employers and private companies related to immigration generally, as well as hiring, internal audits and internal investigations, specifically.
On February 5, 2025, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) issued marching orders to the ...
We often get a raised eyebrow or a confused look when discussing the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). For companies free from union activity and free from following a collective bargaining agreement, many believe they are outside the reach of the NLRB. Safe to say, they are not. Consider the following:
Among the flurry of first-week executive orders issued by the Trump administration, President Trump ordered federal workers to report back to the office. Federal agencies and departments must take all necessary steps to end telework arrangements and require federal employees to work in-person full-time, rather than hybrid arrangements ...
It has been approximately one week since President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “EO”). The EO’s stated purpose is to ensure federal civil-rights laws are enforced to the benefit of all Americans and to end illegal diversity, equity ...
With the start of this new semester, we have received several questions regarding whether student interns need to be paid. As everyone knows, state and federal law requires employers to pay employees for their work. However, employers may have some wiggle room when it comes to student interns.
Generally, a seven-factor test is used to determine ...