A bill amending New York State’s recently enacted “stay or pay” law has been introduced in the State legislature. 

As we previously reported, on December 19, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law the Trapped at Work Act which, effective immediately, prohibits employers from requiring as a condition of employment that any current or

Effective immediately, New York employers are barred from utilizing certain “stay or pay” contracts with workers. Governor Kathy Hochul has signed into law the Trapped at Work Act, which restricts employers from requiring that workers pay them if they leave employment during a certain period of time, subject to limited exceptions. California enacted a similar law

The Fair Labor Standards Act was one of the earliest American workplace laws to contain an explicit anti-retaliation provision.  Modeled after the anti-retaliation provisions in other New Deal legislation, including the National Labor Relations Act enacted just three years prior, the FLSA’s original text in 1938 made it unlawful “for any person … to discharge

On October 7, 2025, the Senate approved two key employment agency nominations, confirming Brittany Panuccio to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) and Andrew Rogers to lead the Wage and Hour Division within the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”).

Panuccio’s appointment restores a Republican majority at the EEOC, while Rogers’s confirmation returns a former