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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act allows employees to deduct $25,000 of tips on their 1040s through 2028. The principal question the proposed regs must answer will be: How can employees be prevented from reclassifying taxable wages as deductible tips?

Do employers need to pay nursing mothers during the breaks they take to pump?

The Department of Labor’s delayed spring 2025 regulatory agenda includes a separate item on long-term regulatory plans, which includes working on overtime rules.

When retail managers you classify as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime provisions end up doing the bulk of the work in the store, you may have a misclassification problem.

Compliance priorities tell us more than where HR’s attention is focused—they reveal where organizations feel most vulnerable. Brightmine’s State of Legal Compliance and Employment Law 2025 Report highlights the laws that dominate HR’s compliance agenda, and where attention may not match the real risks.

States across the U.S. continue to pass pay-transparency laws. But the U.S. Pay Transparency Index 2025 from beqom, a compensation management platform, reveals that even where laws are strict, compliance lags.

By now, you likely have heard about the Trump administration’s renewal and expansion of the Payroll Audit Independent Determination program. Employers should know that there is another DOL-sanctioned option that’s especially useful if they’re not quite sure that what they have done is a violation.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act brings sweeping payroll and tax changes that HR teams must quickly adapt to—some already in effect as of Jan. 1, 2025.

Here’s a template you may use to explain the salient details of deductions for tips and federal overtime to employees.

The Department of Labor has identified over 60 regulations for elimination, part of President Trump’s executive order “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.”