Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

Wage and hour compliance continues to be incredibly difficult for employers, particularly given the increasing number of state and local laws. Many employers are often unaware that a wage and hour issue exists until served with a lawsuit. Please join Ryan Bates (Partner, Washington, DC) as he discusses these challenges potentially lurking within your company.

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”) signed on July 4, 2025, enacts the widely-publicized “No Tax on Tips” and “No Tax on Overtime” changes to the tax code. These provisions will decrease tax burdens for many employees, but also present new compliance obligations for employers. These changes are retroactive to January 1, 2025, so employers should be focused on these issues now.

The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has relaunched a program that allows employers to resolve potential wage and hour violations through a self-audit. 

On July 30, 2025, Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) William B. Cowen (“Cowen”) issued a General Counsel memorandum providing guidance to the NLRB’s Regional Directors on addressing jurisdictional issues between the NLRB and the National Mediation Board (“NMB”).

This month, in Sysco Machinery Corp. v. DCS USA Corp., the Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a trade secret case, holding that plaintiffs asserting Defend Trade Secret Act (“DTSA”) claims must identify the misappropriated trade secrets with “sufficient particularity.”