Labor Days
October Layoffs Hit 22-Year High: Legal Considerations for Employers
October 2025 may very well be remembered as a turning point in the U.S. labor market. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, employers announced approximately 153,000 job cuts last month, marking the highest…
Simplified Option for Correcting Certain Retirement Plan Failures
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) amended its Voluntary Fiduciary Compliance Program (“VFCP”) to provide retirement plan sponsors with a simplified option for correcting certain specified…
DOL Signals Abandonment of Current Independent Contractor Rule
No one should be surprised that the independent contractor pendulum—which swings towards making that classification harder in Democratic administrations and easier in Republican ones—is now tilting towards making it…
How Recent Changes to Administrative Law May Alter Labor and Employment Law as We Know It
Few legal developments sound more sleep-inducing than “changes to federal rulemaking authority.” But don’t mistake dullness for a lack of impact: a pair of Supreme Court decisions just issued will arguably have the…
So Long, Chevron: What The Elimination Of Agency Deference Means For Employers And The Future Of Labor And Employment Law
Generally speaking, it’s difficult to drum up excitement about administrative law (except amongst those of us who deal regularly in the labor and employment law arena and other highly regulated areas of law). That has…