The year 2025 has been an eventful one for employment law, and 2026 may well bring further important changes in this space.

Labor disputes in the US date back to before the Revolutionary War. The first recorded strike over working conditions took place in 1636 on Richmond Island, Maine, when fishermen protested that their ...

The third quarter of 2025 revealed a hard truth: compliance is no longer reactive, it must be proactive, documented, and defensible. Legal obligations now extend beyond the “what” and into the “how” ...

My name is Rachel Greszler. I am a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance at The Heritage Foundation, and a visiting fellow in workforce at the Economic Policy Innovation Center. The ...

Editor’s note: Some interviews in this story were conducted with the help of a translator. Responses originally stated in Spanish have been translated to English. Nine months into a protracted ...