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November 03 2025
Client Alert: The Department of Homeland Security Ends Automatic Extensions of EADs
On October 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) eliminating the automatic extension of Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) for most noncitizens who submit timely renewal applications. This represents a substantial change to longstanding USCIS policy and could create employment authorization lapses, introducing additional compliance and administrative burdens for employers.
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October 29 2025
Client Alert: California Expands Paid Family Leave Eligibility
Earlier this month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation expanding eligibility under California’s Paid Family Leave program to include coverage for individuals who are caring for a “designated person.” A designated person is defined as “any care recipient related by blood or whose association with the individual is the equivalent of a family relationship.”
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October 28 2025
Client Alert: The California Workplace Know Your Rights Act Imposes New Employer Obligations in the New Year
California has introduced the Workplace Know Your Rights Act (the “Act), creating new compliance requirements for employers and the Labor Commissioner. Noncompliance may result in $500 per employee, per violation, and up to $10,000 per employee for ongoing emergency contact violations.
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October 23 2025
Client Alert: New York City Employers Should Prepare for Expanded Leave Obligations and Pay Reporting Requirements
The New York City Council recently passed several bills that, if signed by the Mayor would place even more financial and administrative burdens on employers by increasing employee leave entitlements and imposing pay reporting requirements.
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October 15 2025
Client Alert: California WARN Act Expansion
On October 1, 2025, Governor Gavin Newsom signed expanded California employer obligations under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (“WARN”) Act. The legislation, which takes effect January 1, 2026, enumerates additional actions employers must undertake for covered plant closings and mass layoffs.
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October 14 2025
Client Alert: New Department of Labor Opinion Letters – Joint Employment and Tip Payment
On September 30, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued opinion letters discussing its view on certain issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). These letters discussed joint employment and the DOL’s processes for determining which employees must be classified as “tipped employees” who “regularly and customarily” receive tips.
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September 22 2025
Client Alert: DOL Proposes Decodifying Fair Labor Standards Act Guidance
The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced plans to remove – or “decodify” – a number of Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) rules and policy statements. Under the DOL’s proposal, more than 450 non-binding wage and hour rules and policy statements would be relocated from the Code of Federal Regulations (“CFR”) to the DOL’s internal Field Operations Handbook (the “Handbook”), which is used by DOL investigators when enforcing the FLSA.
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September 02 2025
Client Alert: California 2026 Minimum Wage Increases
California’s Department of Finance recently announced that, effective January 1, 2026, California’s minimum wage will increase from $16.50 per hour to $16.90 per hour. This increase applies to all employers, regardless of size.
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