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.
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.
From $455 a week in 2004 to $1,128 and back to $684: how the salary level that decides who must be paid overtime moved, and why it reverted overnight in November 2024.
The federal wage law sets a floor of $7.25 an hour but says almost nothing about when wages are paid. State statutes fill that space, and they diverge sharply on pay frequency, deductions, and the deadline for a final check.
The FTC's 2024 noncompete rule was set aside nationwide by a Texas court before its effective date. What remains: a patchwork of state statutes that void or limit noncompetes and, increasingly, training-repayment terms.
A salary alone does not make a worker exempt. The Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime carve-outs demand a fixed test: a paid-on-salary basis, a set weekly minimum, and duties that match the category by name.
Anyone can file a comment on a proposed overtime, safety or classification rule. Here is who files, what the agency must do with each one, and where comments actually change the text.