Employee Discipline

New and Updated

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Illinois Expands Whistleblower Protections

• Date:

  December 11, 2025

  Type:

  Commentary and Insights

  Learning From SHRM's Legal Challenge: Compliance Lessons for Employers

  This article shares lessons employers can learn from SHRM's legal challenge and practical strategies they can implement to strengthen their own compliance programs and reduce the risk of costly litigation.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: Minnesota

  Updated to reflect amendments to the retaliation protections in the City of St. Paul's minimum wage ordinance, effective November 16, 2025.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  California Requires Whistleblower Protection for Employees of Large AI Developers

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: Montana

  Updated to reflect law providing retaliation protections for volunteer emergency service responders, effective October 1, 2025.  

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: Nebraska

  Updated to reflect retaliation protections under the Nebraska Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, effective October 1, 2025. 

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: Connecticut

  Updated to reflect addition of victims of sexual assault or trafficking as a protected class under the Connecticut Fair Employment Practices Act, effective October 1, 2025.

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Drugs, Alcohol and Smoking: Texas

  Updated to reflect the expansion of the state's medical marijuana law, effective September 1, 2025.

• Type:

  Legal Timetable

  Illinois Amends Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act

• Type:

  Employment Law Guide

  Employee Discipline: Colorado

  Updated to reflect amendments to the retaliation protections in the Colorado Wage Claim Act, effective August 6, 2025.