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New Executive Order Makes English Official Language, Limited Impact Expected
President Trump issued an Executive Order on March 1, 2025, titled “Designating English as the Official Language of the United States.” The Executive Order states that English has been used as the national language since the nation’s founding, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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Federal Judge Issues Temporary Nationwide Order Halting Parts of Trump Executive Orders Restricting DEI Programs
A Maryland federal court judge issued a temporary injunction late Friday, February 21, 2025, curtailing President Trump’s executive orders aimed at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, including Executive Order 14151 titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing” and Executive Order 14173 titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”
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Immigration Information Resources for Employers
With the new Trump Administration’s focus on immigration enforcement issues, many employers are seeking information resources for employer use. Additionally, some employers are searching for information resources to provide to employees who are concerned about immigration enforcement issues.
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Federal Agency Issues Memorandum Temporarily Freezing Federal Grant and Loan Payments; Judge Issues Temporary Stay
On January 27, 2025, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Matthew Vaeth issued Memorandum #M-25-13, temporarily freezing federal grant and loan payments pending further review. While Social Security and Medicare programs are not affected by this Memorandum, other federal grant and loan programs are potentially impacted.
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President Trump Order Seeks to End Discriminatory DEI Programs and Mandates, Affecting Federal Contractors, Private Sector, and Higher Education
On his second day in office, President Trump issued an Order titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in federal government as well as mandates and programs affecting the public and private sector. Specifically, the President acted to “order all executive departments and agencies to terminate all discriminatory and illegal preferences, mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, enforcement actions, consent orders, and requirements.” The President further ordered that all federal agencies “enforce our longstanding civil-rights laws” and “combat illegal private-sector DEI preferences, mandates, policies, programs, and activities.”
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Before We Talk, “You Are Being Recorded”: The Ninth Circuit Affirms Oregon’s Restriction on Unauthorized Recordings
Last week, the Ninth Circuit upheld Oregon’s conversational privacy statute as constitutional, finding that Oregonians have an interest in knowing when in-person conversations are recorded and that these recordings require notice. In workplaces throughout our state, where nearly every employee carries a personal phone with a recording app, this restriction limits surreptitious recordings and affirms the right to know when a conversation may be permanently memorialized. These types of recordings have found their way into a variety of different employment settings that span from individual performance management to labor relations discussions.
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