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.

The National Labor Relations Board’s lead attorney is pushing back against pending legislation in California, Massachusetts and New York that would allow state agencies to adjudicate private-sector union disputes and supervise union elections if the NLRB continues to operate without a quorum.

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.

The new guidance applies to requests filed on or after August 15, 2025.

• With employees working from different states, it’s easy to make withholding errors. We’ll tell you how to tighten your processes.
• Take steps to safeguard your employee self-service portal and employees’ pay against identity theft.
• Why you should think twice about defaulting employees into paycards and why you should never agree to mobile pay.
• Learn the ins and outs of termination pay, including when to pay it, how to pay it, what to pay and what you can deduct from it.
• Overpaid an employee? Learn how to recoup that money and file the necessary paperwork for the IRS and the Social Security Administration.
• Know the three key rules for reimbursing employees’ business expenses and the two safe harbors that will save you from having to tax employees’ business reimbursements.
• Learn how to handle federal and state pay, tax and reporting requirements for a deceased employee.

We have an exempt employee who took a block of FMLA leave to care for an ill child. We deducted from her PTO to cover the absences, so she lost no pay. Now she needs intermittent leave each afternoon to take the child for chemo treatments. She is out of PTO. Can we deduct from her salary for the time missed? Or do we have to pay her even though she does not have paid time off remaining?

A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 19 said court orders barring the NLRB from pursuing unfair labor practices cases against SpaceX and two other companies should remain in place while their constitutional challenges are being litigated.

A new AP-NORC survey shows that fewer people believe racial discrimination against Black or Asian Americans is as widespread as they did in 2021. At the same time, skepticism about whether DEI programs reduce discrimination is growing.

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.

Generally, obesity alone does not qualify as a disability under the ADA. A recent federal appellate court decision agrees with that premise.