If you are interested in election prognostications and missed our Fall Labor Update Webinar, you should review it here. For another list of potential impacts to labor professionals, take a look at the details behind this list posted by Fisher & Phillips attorney Jeffrey Mandel. His list includes the following:
- Immigration
- Labor relations
- Pay equity
- Data security
- Supreme Court nominations
- Employee leave
- Workplace safety
- Wage and hour
- Affirmative action and federal contractor compliance
- Non-competes and other post-employment restrictive covenants
All four states that had a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage passed them (Washington, Arizona, Colorado and Maine). Right-to-work met with mixed results, with Alabama enshrining the existing right-to-work statute in their constitution, and Virginia defeating a right-to-work initiative. However, due to Republican election victories at the state level, expect to see additional statewide right-to-work laws proposed for Kentucky, Missouri and New Hampshire.
