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Archives for March 23, 2025
How to Talk to a Neurodiverse Colleague
Work Friend reconsiders a past response. Plus, the best way to correct people who get your name wrong.
Massachusetts Bill Could End Pre-Employment Marijuana Testing
Massachusetts may ban pre-employment marijuana testing, forcing employers to rethink hiring policies. Learn how H. 2179 could reshape workplace drug testing.
How To Shut Down Office Drama With Four Simple Words
Drama-filled personalities exaggerate, catastrophize, and spin minor situations into major crises. And if you match their energy, you’re just adding fuel to the fire.
RTO Creep: Why More Companies Are Reinstating The 9-To-5 Workday
Early studies suggested workers were equally or more productive outside the office, avoiding commutes and structuring their own time.
3 Costly Mistakes Companies Make When Using Gen AI
Gen AI isn’t like other technology, so it’s easy to miss the real risks of deploying it across your content. Understand three potential blindspots so you can sidestep the risks of gen AI and maximize the rewards.
Beltway Buzz, March 21, 2025
The Beltway Buzz™ is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business.
California Assemblymember Sharp-Collins Introduces Workplace Safety Bill Authorizing Refusals to Work and Requiring Wages
On February 21, 2025, California Assemblymember LaShae Sharp-Collins (D), representing San Diego, introduced Assembly Bill (AB) No. 1371 (“Right to Refuse Unsafe Work With Pay”) in the California State Assembly. The measure, which is now pending before the Assembly’s Committee on Labor and Employment, would revise and expand employee protections
Wisconsin Court of Appeals Finds Taxpayer-Funded College Grant Program to Be Unconstitutional
On February 26, 2025, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District II, determined that a program that provided taxpayer-funded educational grants to financially needy students of specific racial, national origin, and ancestry groups was unconstitutional.
Policy Week in Review – March 21, 2025
The Policy Week in Review, prepared by Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), sets forth WPI’s updates on federal, state, and local matters, as well as Littler’s published in-depth analyses of the prior week.
Nebraska Enacts Marketplace Network Platform Statute
On March 11, 2025, Nebraska passed a marketplace network platform statute that deems workers who use a marketplace network platform independent contractors under the state unemployment statute if certain conditions are met. The law goes into effect September 9, 2025.
New York Court Issues Decision and Order Declaring the DOH’s August 2024 Reimbursement Rate Adjustment for Fiscal Intermediaries “Null and Void”
On March 20, 2025, a New York Supreme Court Justice in Albany County issued a decision and order declaring the New York State Department of Health (NY DOH)’s August 2024 implementation of an administrative rate reimbursement change for Fiscal Intermediaries (FIs) participating in the state’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program
What is the Faster Labor Contracts Act?
Littler attorneys discuss the Faster Labor Contracts Act and how it will potentially amend the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
New Trump EO Aims to Eliminate Department of Education
Related linOn March 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO), “Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities,” directing the secretary of education “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education ….”ks
How To Build Trust At Work: Strategies Experts Say Top Leaders Use
Trust isn’t built through titles or policies. Trust is built daily through consistency, empathy, curiosity, and how leaders respond when people risk telling the truth.