Labor Law
Weingarten rights: when you can ask for a union rep
A Supreme Court rule from 1975 still decides who can bring a witness into the room when an employer starts asking questions that could end in discipline.
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Labor Law
Labor Law tracks the written rules: bills in Congress, Department of Labor rulemakings, state employment statutes and the Federal Register pipeline. Every story states what changes, for whom and when it takes effect.
Bills, agency rulemakings and compliance requirements that change how workplaces are governed, traced from proposal to effective date.
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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.
Labor Law
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.
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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.
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FMLA and state paid leave: which law applies when
The federal leave law protects the job but not the paycheck; state programs increasingly do the reverse. When both cover the same worker, the two usually run at the same time.
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How the Congressional Review Act can void a labor rule
Congress holds a rarely used undo button for federal regulations: a simple-majority joint resolution, moved within 60 legislative days of a rule's publication, that erases the rule and bars any substantially similar one.