April 2025: Detailed Look at State and Local Updates

Timely, topical insights on a variety of issues impacting employers.
Check out our monthly Eye on Washington series that focuses on timely, topical insights on various payroll and reporting issues at the state, local, and federal levels. This edition covers regulatory and legislative updates in benefits, leave, payroll, and time and labor.
The highlighted states and areas include Alabama, Illinois, New Jersey, Virginia and Wisconsin.
It also provides a list of minimum wage announcements.
The topics covered in this issue are:
State/Territory/District
- Reminder – Alabama Overtime Tax Exemption Law Expires on June 30, 2025
- Deadline for Renewal of Some Illinois Equal Pay Certificates Approaches, Portal Now Open
- New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Commissions Count as Wages Under State Law
- Virginia Requires Hospitals to Implement Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
- Wisconsin Supreme Court Clarifies Arrest Record Discrimination
Minimum Wage
- Minimum Wage Announcements 3/21/25 – 4/20/25