No further modifications will be made to the proposed non-emergency COVID-19 regulation that the Cal/OSHA Standards Board will vote to approve at its next meeting on December 15, 2022.
In response to COVID-19, some states enacted permanent changes to their leave laws that apply during a “public health emergency.” With reports of higher-than-average RSV and flu transmission, some of these emergency provisions are being triggered.
Equal Pay Transparency laws have been passed in several states and localities, potentially impacting the PERM/H-1B labor condition application process for employers conducting labor market testing efforts within those states before hiring foreign workers.
On October 17, 2022, President Biden signed into law the AI Training Act. The purported purpose of the Act is to ensure the federal government’s workforce has knowledge of how artificial intelligence (AI) works, AI’s benefits, and AI’s risks.
The City Council of Atlanta, Georgia recently passed an ordinance that amends its existing anti-discrimination law to include protection on the basis of “criminal history status” as well as “gender expression.”
To be exempt from collecting and remitting contribution payments beginning on January 1, 2023 to Oregon’s new paid family medical leave program, employers must submit certain forms by November 30, 2022.
In an unprecedented bid to prevent school board employees represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees from proceeding with a strike planned for early November 2022, Ontario introduced Bill 28, Keeping Students in Class Act, 2022.
