On February 18, 2026, the EEOC filed a federal lawsuit against Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast, Inc. (“Coca-Cola”) alleging that it violated Title VII when it excluded male employees from an employer-sponsored event. Specifically, the EEOC alleged that Coca-Cola discriminated against male employees because only female employees were ...
Written by Mike N. Fine
On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, the House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing entitled, “Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond.” The hearing focused on the potential misuse of domestic nonprofit organizations and related structures as vehicles for flowing ...
Recently the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a slew of Opinion Letters as 2026 gets underway. FMLA2026-2 is particularly topical as millions of Americans battle winter illnesses.
The DOL answers a simple question; “may protected leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) be used for time spent traveling to ...
Written by Glen W. Krebs
Beginning on March 19, 2026, nonresidential construction employers are required to use E-Verify to confirm an employee’s work authorization in the United States. The law is enforced pursuant to the E-Verify Workforce Integrity Act signed into law by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on December 19, 2025.
E-Verify is a system ...
Written by Glen W. Krebs
On November 28, 2025, the Secretary of Homeland Security announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) in the Federal Register. The termination was set to take place at 11:59 PM on February 3, 2026. Upon termination any Haitians in the United States would lose work authorization and be required to ...
Written by: Drayden Burton
On January 22, 2026, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) voted to rescind its 2024 guidance related to discrimination and harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity without a public notice and comment period. The 2024 guidance sought to animate the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock ...
Several important employment law developments came out of Kentucky and Indiana in 2025. Three cases initiated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) highlight areas of legal risk for employers and underscore compliance priorities in training, discrimination and accommodation.
EEOC v. Holsum of Fort Wayne Inc.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence (“A.I.”) models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, XAI’s Grok, and Google’s Gemini have taken the world by storm over the last few years. 2025 was perhaps the most notable year in terms of A.I.’s proliferation across the economic sector. Claims that businesses or products are “A.I.-integrated” or ...
Written by Brandon Girdley
On December 12, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued an opinion addressing Congress’s delegation to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) of rulemaking authority for overtime authorization. The case involved a federal employee who worked as a nurse for an agency within the ...
On the heels of an earlier Executive Order instructing federal agencies to deprioritize enforcement of disparate impact cases, the EEOC instructed all area offices to dismiss currently pending disparate impact charges by the end of September. A former driver for Amazon, Leah Cross, subsequently sued the EEOC for dismissing her charge that ...