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08/07/2025
Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your August 2025 To-Do List
Source: Fisher Phillips, August 1, 2025
Here are the top ten items you should tackle in August, based on the latest workplace law developments and upcoming critical compliance dates:
- Learn how the big budget bill impacts your workplace. Don’t have time to slog through 1,000+ pages of the final “Big Beautiful Bill” signed by President Trump on July 4? Here’s an overview of the ways that the legislation impacts employers.
- Paddle into the wave of deregulation. The US Department of Labor unveiled a broad set of proposed regulatory rollbacks in July, and key proposals will impact workplace safety, employee benefits compliance, the healthcare and agriculture industries, federal contractors, and more. OSHA alone issued more than 20 new initiatives, and MSHA also crashed the deregulatory party.
- But beware of hidden hazards underwater. Many expected the Federal Trade Commission to drop a Biden-era appeal to keep the agency’s federal non-compete ban alive – but an FTC court filing last month suggests the ban may not be dead after all. Employers don’t need to take any action yet, but this has become an issue to watch. In addition, while the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs continues to unravel affirmative action programs, it also just revived disability and veteran enforcement for federal contractors.
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