--- title: "Employment Law Newsletters | Labor Law Newsletters" description: "" url: "https://wimlaw.com/publications/newsletters?start=66" date: "2026-06-03T03:33:37+00:00" language: "en-US" --- # Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues Our Monthly Report on Labor Law Issues, also known as the Employment Law Bulletin, is a monthly newsletter that covers a wide range of labor law issues, including affirmative action plans, strikes, OSHA regulations, minimum wage requirements, and more. Other topics covered have included issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as workplace walk-outs and strikes, vaccinations, and employee rights related to positive test results and quarantine. The newsletter also covers issues related to discrimination, such as artificial intelligence and racial bias, and issues related to unions, such as organizing efforts and union successes at companies like Amazon and Starbucks. The newsletter also covers issues related to taxes, immigration, and court cases related to labor law. ***[Stay informed and avoid legal missteps, by subscribing to email updates here.](https://wimlaw.com/updates)*** [ ![trans flag](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/23/cecilie-bomstad-G8CxFhKuPDU-unsplash-23c63451.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1505:scotus-ruling-limits-transgender-rights&catid=53)## [Supreme Court Ruling Limits Transgender Rights](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1505:scotus-ruling-limits-transgender-rights&catid=53) August 20, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) There have been several recent developments concerning transgender rights. Most interpret the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, as including protection for sexual orientation and sexual identity under the prohibitions of “sex discrimination” under the nation’s employment laws. However, the Bostock ruling expressly stated that it di… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1505:scotus-ruling-limits-transgender-rights&catid=53) [ ![person using a computer at their desk, indoors](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/c4/glenn-carstens-peters-npxXWgQ33ZQ-unsplash-c49e4ac8.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1500:dol-employer-friendly-compliance-assistance&catid=53)## [New Administration Providing Employer-Friendly Compliance Assistance in DOL Enforcement](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1500:dol-employer-friendly-compliance-assistance&catid=53) August 18, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has established a new web page for employers to submit requests for opinion letters to the Wage & Hour Division, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Employee Benefits Security Administration, and the Veterans’ Employment and Training Service. A DOL opinion letter can serve as a legal defense in the even… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1500:dol-employer-friendly-compliance-assistance&catid=53) [ ![sand timer](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/dd/kenny-eliason-KYxXMTpTzek-unsplash-dd9ad26e.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1496:tps-update-2025-06&catid=53)## [TPS Update (As of 6/17/2025)](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1496:tps-update-2025-06&catid=53) July 08, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) The Trump Administration has acted to terminate TPS status for several countries. Of course, litigation has followed each notice of termination. However, if the Trump Administration continues to follow the law, these terminations will be upheld because the Secretary of Homeland Security has vast discretion to terminate TPS status and courts do not have aut… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1496:tps-update-2025-06&catid=53) [ ![handcuffs, money](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/5f/bermix-studio-Tb9sgkp77LM-unsplash-5f9e42f7.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1494:trump-discourages-criminal-enforcement&catid=53)## [President Trump Discourages Criminal Enforcement of Agency Rules](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1494:trump-discourages-criminal-enforcement&catid=53) July 07, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) President Trump had told federal agencies to consider civil rather than criminal enforcement of their regulations, in an executive order dated May 9, 2025. The executive order also instructed agencies to avoid imposing a “strict liability” standard to their rules, noting that the Code of Federal Regulations “is far more than any citizen can possibly read… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1494:trump-discourages-criminal-enforcement&catid=53) [ ![fire employee sad, figurine](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/2b/igor-omilaev-njA73IRbg3k-unsplash-2b194868.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1490:scotus-trump-fire-agency-heads&catid=53)## [Supreme Court Suggests Trump Can Fire Agency Heads Without Cause](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1490:scotus-trump-fire-agency-heads&catid=53) July 07, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) President Trump has attempted to extend his authority over federal agencies that previously operated somewhat outside of direct White House control. The ability to remove agency heads is consistent with his executive order to take control of independent agencies. Examples include firing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Equal Emplo… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1490:scotus-trump-fire-agency-heads&catid=53) [ ![you are lying, note](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/67/annie-spratt-JcIPxdGuE_Y-unsplash-671e5649.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1492:how-tell-lying&catid=53)## [How to Tell If a Person Is Lying](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1492:how-tell-lying&catid=53) July 07, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) Employers have to make a lot of decisions in the workplace, including the famous “he said-she said” issue involving the investigation of sex harassment cases. Even common rule violations situations require employers to interview witnesses, and in some cases making credibility determinations as to which witnesses are telling the truth. [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1492:how-tell-lying&catid=53) [ ![transgender spelled out in cubes](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/dd/alexander-grey-9J1NuJ7Dgz4-unsplash-dd844885.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1493:federal-invalidate-eeoc-guidance-transgender&catid=53)## [Federal Court Judges Invalidate EEOC Guidance on Transgender Workers and Pregnancy](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1493:federal-invalidate-eeoc-guidance-transgender&catid=53) July 07, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) Newly appointed EEOC Chairperson Lucas dissented from portions of the Biden Administration’s earlier EEOC Harassment Guidance requiring protections for transgender workers, and also portions of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) that require companies to reasonably accommodate employees who choose to have an abortion. Although the EEOC currently lack… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1493:federal-invalidate-eeoc-guidance-transgender&catid=53) [ ![group of people, outdoors, night](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/f7/papaioannou-kostas-tysecUm5HJA-unsplash-f71a169a.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1495:majority-minority-rights-sue&catid=53)## [A Court Rules That a Majority Group Has Same Rights to Sue as Minority Groups](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1495:majority-minority-rights-sue&catid=53) July 07, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) The normal issue in a disparate treatment discrimination case is whether “the defendant intentionally discriminated against the plaintiff.” Usually, the plaintiff in these cases is some type of “minority,” but many courts began to apply the concept that when members of a majority group sue, they must show “background circumstances to support the suspicion… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1495:majority-minority-rights-sue&catid=53) [ ![racial equality, printed, typewriter](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/c5/markus-winkler-4oc8J17cit0-unsplash-c5d4dc33.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1485:federal-disparate-discrimination&catid=53)## [Federal Government to Drop Disparate Impact Basis for Discrimination Claims](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1485:federal-disparate-discrimination&catid=53) June 26, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) In an extremely important development, on April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order declaring: “It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible.” This theory of liability sprung from a 1971 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Griggs v. 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Some wish that the heat rule proposed during the Biden Administration would simply go away, but others feel that moving forward on the proposed heat rule would be better than leaving it in the hands of another… [Learn More](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1486:heat-safety-rule-update&catid=53) [ ![checkmark](https://wimlaw.com/media/yootheme/cache/f5/farhat-altaf-S-5NzAmEHpg-unsplash-f5f6dcb0.jpg) ](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1487:e-verify&catid=53)## [E-Verify+](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1487:e-verify&catid=53) June 26, 2025 | [Employment Law Newsletter: A Monthly Report On Labor Law Issues](https://wimlaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=53) E-Verify+ is a new tool that streamlines the employment eligibility verification process for employers and new hires. 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