On March 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit lifted the nationwide injunction on President Trump's executive orders targeting IE&D programs, allowing enforcement while legal challenges continue.
Last week attorneys for Creative Actors Agency (CAA), Miramax and Disney delivered oral argument in their appeal to try to prevent actor Julia Ormond’s negligence claims from moving forward in New York State Court.
The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI’s updates on federal, state, and local matters, as well as Littler’s published in-depth analyses of the prior week.
Effective training, focusing on skills-based interview questions and highlighting the potential for discrimination, can be an invaluable tool in maintaining risk-free hiring practices.
As layoff procedures in Poland and Germany are anchored in the same EU Directive, their national regulations are similar in direction, but they still have their own flavor and local specificity.
On March 4, 2025, Arkansas amended its non-compete statute to provide that non-compete covenants that “restrict the right of a physician to practice within the physician’s scope of practice” are void.
With so much going on in the first two months of Trump’s second term (Trump 2.0), this is a good time to review what has and has not happened in the world of worksite enforcement – ICE I-9 audits, ICE raids, and administrative warrants.
As employers deal with all the changes at the federal level, they should also be mindful of potential changes at the state level, specifically in California.
In recent years, many organizations have implemented new policies on artificial intelligence (AI) use to help prevent bias, plagiarism, or use of AI tools that produce inaccurate or misleading information.
