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Cleveland Office Now OpenWe are excited to announce the expansion of Kastner Westman & Wilkins, LLC with the opening of our second office, located in the historic Keith Building on Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland. This expansion marks an exciting next...

By: Michael R. Briach Artificial intelligence is transforming the workplace and creating new risks for employers. Among those risks: the rise of “deepfakes,” or fabricated images, video, or audio designed to look and sound real. As this...

By Zach J. Kiffmeyer In Brown-Forman Corp. v. NLRB, No. 24-2107 (6th Cir. 2026), the Sixth Circuit wiped the standard set forth in the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pac., LLC, 372 NLRB 130 and flushed...

By Zach Leciejewski The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 (“EFAA”) prohibits mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. But what happens when an employee with an otherwise valid...

By Amanda S. Smith On February 26, 2026, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) formally reinstated its employer-friendly 2020 rule governing when an employer can be held legally responsible for alleged labor law violations as a so-called “joint...

By Michael P. Karst and Zach J. Leciejewski The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service recently issued Fact Sheet 2026-01 related to the “no tax on overtime” provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which President Trump...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted to officially rescind anti-harassment guidance that said misgendering workers is a form of discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. On January 22, 2026, the EEOC voted to rescind the...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially abandoned its attempt to impose a nationwide ban on most noncompete agreements. On September 5, 2025, the FTC withdrew an appeal of a court ruling that struck down the agency’s 2024 rule that would have...

On September 30, 2025, Ohio’s House Bill 96 (HB 96) took effect and creates big changes for some employers. The law repeals many of Ohio’s long-standing Affirmative Action Program (AAP) requirements for government contractors and creates a new, “mini-WARN” Act...

On September 19, 2025, President Trump signed a Proclamation directing the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State to restrict the entry of certain foreign workers using the popular H-1B visa, unless the workers’ employer first pays the government...