Labor & Employment Developments Blog

On September 29, 2025, Ohio’s version of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“Ohio WARN Act”) officially went into effect. The enactment of this law makes Ohio the latest state to join the growing list of jurisdictions with so-called “mini-WARN” statutes. Although the Ohio WARN Act closely tracks the federal WARN Act, it is not the same and introduces key ambiguities that employers must navigate carefully to avoid costly penalties.  

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) is poised to elevate its focus on religious discrimination in the workplace and employers should be alert. With its newly restored quorum allowing Acting Chair Andrea Lucas to move forward with more aggressive enforcement, the agency is expected to pursue a broader litigation agenda emphasizing religious accommodation rights under Title VII. In 2025 alone, the EEOC filed 11 religious discrimination suits, the highest in nearly a decade. Lucas credited the agency’s “tremendous wins” in defending religious ...