Massachusetts

Massachusetts Pay Disclosure Requirements Take Effect October 29, 2025

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Pay disclosure requirements under the recently enacted pay transparency law in Massachusetts will take effect on October 29, 2025. A summary of that law can be found in our prior update, available here: 2025 Pay Transparency Law. Certain portions of the law are already in place, including pay data reporting requirements.  As of October 29, 2025, public and private employers with 25 or more employees will need to disclose expected salary ranges for job postings and provide pay range information to current employees upon request. Until October 29, 2027, covered employers will be provided with a two-business-day cure period to …

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U.S. Department of Labor Issues Final Rule on Independent Contractor Classification under the FLSA

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In January 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a new final rule, effective March 11, 2024, revising the criteria for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The final rule rescinds the DOL’s rule issued in 2021, which emphasized two “core factors” as being potentially determinative of the proper classification. Those two “core factors” include (1) the nature and degree of the worker’s control over the work, and (2) the worker’s opportunity for profit. The new rule returns to a totality-of-the-circumstances analysis that was applied prior to the …

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