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Eleventh Circuit Reverses Course: False Claims Act Whistleblower Provisions Are Constitutional After All

September 02, 2026 | Posted By: Sean Estes

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For more than a year, whistleblowers, defense contractors, healthcare providers, and government fraud lawyers have been watching one case out of Tampa. On September 1, 2026, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals answered the question everyone was asking: no, the False Claims Act’s whistleblower provisions do not violate the Constitution. The Court’s decision in United […]

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The Supreme Court Raised the Bar in 2023

August 28, 2026 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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A Standard That Stood for Nearly 50 Years For decades, employers facing a religious accommodation request could deny it fairly easily, as long as granting the request would cost the business more than a genuinely trivial amount. That changed in June 2023, and the shift has real consequences for St Petersburg employees seeking accommodations today. […]

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When Your Liability Shield Actually Fails

August 21, 2026 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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Forming an LLC or corporation is supposed to separate personal assets from business debts. Florida courts respect that separation strongly, but there is a specific set of circumstances under which a creditor can reach through the entity to an owner’s personal assets anyway. The Standard Florida Courts Actually Apply Florida’s leading case on this issue, […]

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What the Federal Rollback of “Disparate Impact” Means for Your Workplace

August 14, 2026 | Posted By: Sean Estes

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A quiet but significant shift is underway in how the federal government enforces anti-discrimination law, and it could change the rules for employers and employees alike. Over the past year, several federal agencies have moved to eliminate what is known as “disparate impact” liability from their regulations. The latest came in late June 2026, when […]

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AI-Generated Whistleblower Complaints Are Surging: What Businesses That Touch Federal Dollars Need to Know

August 11, 2026 | Posted By: Sean Estes

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A new kind of False Claims Act case is reshaping how the government finds fraud and putting more companies under the microscope than ever before. Whistleblowers are now using artificial intelligence to sift through enormous volumes of public data, hunting for statistical anomalies that might point to government fraud. The result is a wave of […]

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DOL’s Proposed Joint Employer Rule: What Employers Using Staffing, Franchise, or PEO Arrangements Need to Know

August 07, 2026 | Posted By: Emma Doull

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On April 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published a proposed rule that would change how the agency decides when two businesses share legal responsibility for the same worker. This concept, known as joint employer status, matters because a joint employer finding can make one company liable for another company’s […]

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FLSA Overtime Rules Reset: What Employers Need to Know Now

August 04, 2026 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor published a technical amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act regulations governing overtime exemptions for white-collar employees. The practical effect: the salary thresholds that determine whether an employee can be classified as exempt from overtime pay are substantially lower than the rule would have required, and […]

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The EEOC’s New Rulemaking Agenda: Ten Changes Employers Should Watch

July 31, 2026 | Posted By: Emma Doull

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Just before the Independence Day holiday, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission quietly published an updated Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions listing ten rulemaking initiatives that could reshape how employers handle demographic data, hiring assessments, pregnancy accommodations, and long-standing compliance guidance. None of these items has become a final rule yet, and current […]

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ICE Rewrites the Rules: What Employers Need to Know About the 2026 Form I-9 Enforcement Shift

July 28, 2026 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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If your company completes Form I-9s, pay close attention. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) has significantly overhauled its Form I-9 Inspection fact sheet, and the changes are not minor. Without any public notice, proposed rulemaking, or announcement in the Federal Register, ICE quietly reclassified dozens of I-9 errors, changed how penalties are calculated, and […]

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Why Manager Training Is Your Company’s Best Defense to a Harassment Claim

July 24, 2026 | Posted By: Emma Doull

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A pattern shows up again and again in employment lawsuits brought against employers. A manager made a flawed decision or failed to act because they had not been properly trained. Sometimes it was a termination carried out without documentation. Sometimes it was a failure to recognize a harassment complaint and respond to it correctly. Sometimes […]

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When Is a Performance Improvement Plan an Adverse Employment Action?

July 21, 2026 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

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If you have ever received a Performance Improvement Plan at work, you know it rarely feels like a neutral event. Most employees experience a PIP as a warning shot, a sign that management is building a paper trail toward termination. But does a PIP cross the legal threshold of an “adverse employment action” under federal […]

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Tenth Circuit Rejects DEI Training Hostile Work Environment Claim, But the Door Isn’t Closed

July 17, 2026 | Posted By: Emma Doull

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On May 11, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a former corrections officer’s lawsuit claiming that mandatory diversity, equity, and inclusion training created a racially hostile work environment. Young v. Colorado Department of Corrections, No. 25-1068 (10th Cir. May 11, 2026). The decision is good news for employers […]

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