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An easing labor market and increases in minimum wage, particularly in California, have likely decreased usage of this tactic for this segment.

Most prominent in state policymaking has been movement on pay transparency laws.

Your outline could serve as your “Key Takeaways” for the piece.

It could be very complicated for comp professionals to explain the volatility risk that the employees would be looking at, but again, that may subside in a better regulatory environment.

As higher education became increasingly expensive, colleges/universities — and especially state legislatures — discovered that they could shift more and more of the cost to the students and their families.

“Rather than firms engaging in traditional salary wars,” he said, “this year we could see companies compete by ramping up travel subsidies, flexibility or allowing staff to commute in during off-peak periods to help counter rising costs.”

Ron DeSantis and Attorney General Ashley Moody are appealing a federal judge’s ruling that blocked part of a new state law that placed restrictions on how race-related issues can be addressed in workplace training — a law DeSantis has dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.”

IRS Notice 2025-15 is a deliverable of the Paperwork Burden Reduction Act , which was signed into law in December 2024 and allows certain employers to meet Form 1095 (Employer-Provided Health Insurance Offer and Coverage) distribution requirements for the 2024 reporting year by posting a notice of availability and then only distributing that information (electronically or via mail) upon request.

After all, the First and Fifth Amendment analyses in this case merge in several ways, because laws that ‘interfere with the right of free speech or of association’ must pass a ‘stringent vagueness test’ for such a law to give citizens sufficient notice of ‘what is prohibited, so that [they] may act accordingly’ and for such a law to provide sufficiently ‘explicit standards’ to avoid “arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”

Judge Affirms Pay Raise for Food Delivery Workers in New York A judge said New York City regulators could move forward and raise minimum wages for app-based food delivery workers, ruling against three delivery giants that had challenged the rule, the New York Times reports .