As 2026 approaches, employers may want to assess the following wage-and-hour compliance issues: rising salary thresholds for overtime exemptions, widening gaps between federal and state minimum wage ...

The lawsuit says the new essay question has appeared on over 5,800 federal job applications so far, as part of the administration's Merit Hiring Plan.

Federal worker unions late Thursday filed a suit challenging the Trump administration’s inclusion of a so-called loyalty question in a set of prompts to be answered by prospective employees. The ...

The Trump administration has been served. Several federal workers’ unions have come forward to oppose the “loyalty test” on ...

Three federal worker unions took the Trump administration to court over a “loyalty test” added to job applications. A ...

Three of the largest U.S. government employee unions have filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new hiring practice implemented under the Trump administration, which they claim politicizes the civil ...