Written by Glen W. Krebs
Beginning on March 19, 2026, nonresidential construction employers are required to use E-Verify to confirm an employee’s work authorization in the United States. The law is enforced pursuant to the E-Verify Workforce Integrity Act signed into law by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on December 19, 2025.
E-Verify is a system ...
Written by Glen W. Krebs
On November 28, 2025, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) in the Federal Register. The termination was set to take place at 11:59 PM on February 3, 2026. Upon termination any Haitians in the United States would lose work authorization and be required to ...
Written by: Drayden Burton
On January 22, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its 2024 guidance related to discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity without a public notice and comment period. The 2024 guidance sought to animate the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock ...
Several important employment law developments came out of Kentucky and Indiana in 2025. Three cases initiated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) highlight areas of legal risk for employers and underscore compliance priorities in training, discrimination and accommodation.
EEOC v. Holsum of Fort Wayne Inc.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (“A.I.”) models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, XAI’s Grok, and Google’s Gemini have taken the world by storm over the last few years. 2025 was perhaps the most notable year in terms of A.I.’s proliferation across the economic sector. Claims that businesses or products are “A.I.-integrated” or ...
Written by Brandon Girdley
On December 12, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion addressing Congress’s delegation to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of rulemaking authority for overtime authorization. The case involved a federal employee who worked as a nurse for an agency within the ...
On the heels of an earlier Executive Order instructing federal agencies to deprioritize enforcement of disparate impact cases, the EEOC instructed all area offices to dismiss currently pending disparate impact charges by the end of September. A former driver for Amazon, Leah Cross, subsequently sued the EEOC for dismissing her charge that ...
On September 19, 2025, the Trump administration issued a proclamation that appeared to require a $100,000 payment for a noncitizen to enter the United States with an H-1B visa after 12:01 am Eastern Time on September 21. This caused many U.S. employers and H-1B workers to panic. Within 24 hours, the administration clarified that the $100,000 fee ...
Written by Drayden Burton
On November 19th, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released new and updated educational material and guidance aimed at “advancing robust enforcement and awareness around national origin discrimination and Anti-American bias.” The one page document, titled ...
On November 5, 2025, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals handed down its decision in National Labor Relations Board v. Starbucks. Joining the 3rd and 5th Circuits, the 6th Circuit rejected the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) 2022 expansion of remedies under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The Court held that under Section 10(c) of ...