A December 11, 2025, White House executive order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”  signals a clear federal strategy: push back on the fast-growing patchwork of state AI laws, and build a path toward federal preemption. The order does four things that matter for employers who use AI tools in hiring, scheduling, performance management, and other HR decisions. First, it directs the Attorney General to create an AI Litigation Task Force w

On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released six new opinion letters, four under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and two under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). WHD is framing the opinion-letter program as a compliance tool: a way to apply federal labor statutes to concrete workplace fact patterns, and to promote consistency in enforcement. A quick caution up front: opinion letters are fact-specific, and courts are not re

Florida employers are leaning into artificial intelligence for scheduling, pricing, HR screening, and even management decisions. That makes business sense, but it also raises a quieter question: at what point does AI change jobs so much that a previously “exempt” employee becomes overtime-eligible under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)? The law has not changed. The duties tests for the executive and administrative exemptions are the same. What is changing is what people ac

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