News & Analysis

Quarterly employment law updates from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Quarterly employment law updates from Spain

Quarterly employment law updates from Sweden

Quarterly employment law updates from Switzerland

Quarterly employment law updates from the United Kingdom

Quarterly employment law updates from Venezuela

The California Supreme Court has rejected the longstanding view that meal and rest break premiums are paid at the employee’s base rate, rather than at the more complicated regular rate of pay used to calculate overtime premiums.

In two opinions filed on June 25, 2021, the Iowa Supreme Court clarified the state’s complex employee drug-testing requirements.

On July 9, 2021, Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries filed an emergency rule to increase protection for employees exposed to extreme heat at work.

On July 13, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Substitute Senate Bill No. 658, An Act Requiring Employers to Recall Certain Laid-Off Workers in Order of Seniority.