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How HR Teams Can Track Labor Law Changes All Year
A working system for catching federal and state deadlines before they catch you.
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Union Decertification: How Workers Vote Out Representation
A 30% petition, a narrow filing window, and a majority vote — the legal path off a union contract, mapped against the rules that govern it.
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When the labor board rewrites its own rules
Section 6 lets the NLRB legislate through the Federal Register, a channel used rarely and contested every time.
Shift work and the body clock
A primer on non-day schedules — who works them, what federal safety research says about the health evidence, and which scheduling design rules follow from it.
Workplace surveillance and the law
Most workplace monitoring is lawful, with notice required in a minority of states; this explainer covers what can be tracked, disclosed and challenged.
Algorithmic management at work
The NLRB's general counsel told regions in 2022 to treat algorithmic management as a labor law problem; this analysis maps where software-made decisions meet the act.
How a federal workplace rule gets made: the notice-and-comment pipeline
An OSHA exposure limit or a DOL overtime threshold becomes binding law through the Administrative Procedure Act's notice-and-comment process — a published proposal, a public docket, and a reasoned final rule.
How union democracy litigation works under federal law
The Landrum-Griffin Act gives union members a bill of rights and two enforcement tracks — an internal appeals route, then the Labor Department's civil suit system — with strict deadlines on each.
What arbitration agreements bind — and what they cannot touch
A signed arbitration agreement sends most employment disputes to a private forum, but the scope of what it binds runs through federal statute and stops at the courthouse door for certain claims.
How HR Teams Can Track Labor Law Changes All Year
A working system for catching federal and state deadlines before they catch you.
Missouri repeals the paid sick leave voters approved
House Bill 567, signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe on July 10, 2025, ended the earned paid sick time mandate on August 28, 2025 and froze future minimum wage inflation adjustments.
DOL moves to scrap the 2024 independent contractor rule
A proposed rule published February 27, 2026 would rescind the 2024 classification standard and restore a two-factor economic-reality test — and quietly extend it to family and migrant-worker statutes.
OPM finalizes rules moving federal RIF appeals from board to agency
Two final rules published August 3 shift appeals of furloughs, separations and demotions to OPM itself, effective September 2, ending the MSPB hearing route.
Supreme Court to weigh the Labor Department's farmworker enforcement power
The Court agreed to decide how far the department can go to court for farmworkers owed pay, a question that shapes protections for hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers.
Justice Department opinion calls EEOC disparate-impact guidance unconstitutional
A 25-page Office of Legal Counsel opinion, released June 9, concludes Title VII liability cannot rest on unequal outcomes alone; courts, not DOJ, will decide.