Compliance Stuff

Here are the top items you should tackle in June, based on the latest workplace law developments and upcoming critical compliance dates: _____ Get ready for the heat.  A public hearing on June 16 could determine the fate of OSHA’s heat illness rule – regardless of the outcome, here’s  how to protect your employees this summer . In other OSHA news, the agency  released a new SST inspection plan  on May 21. _____ Catch up on SCOTUS rulings.  In May, the Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s plans to  end Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan workers  and its  firing of NLRB Democrat Member Gwynn Wilcox (again) . The Court will soon also decide  if federal judges can issue nationwide injunctions , which could have profound impacts on workplace law. _____ File your 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data.  Employers subject to the reporting requirement must submit their data by June 24. Check out our  five qui...

With 2025 underway, the ArentFox Schiff White Collar team highlights the  US  Department of Justice’s ( DOJ ) new enforcement priorities and two cases pending before the  US  Supreme Court that could have sweeping implications for future white-collar fraud cases.   Within hours of her US Senate confirmation on February 5, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued 14 memoranda to all DOJ employees, shifting the DOJ’s focus toward national security priorities and reallocating investigative resources and personnel. These memoranda largely implement directives set forth in executive orders issued in the first days of the Trump Administration. The DOJ’s new enforcement priorities include illegal immigration, human smuggling, and transnational crime organizations (TCOs), gangs, and cartels . In support of these priorities, the DOJ will prioritize Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) actions with connections to TCOs, gangs, and c...