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The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently proposed Regulation 122180-18 (the “Proposed Regulations”) to implement the amendments found in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”)1 to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as...By: Womble Bond Dickinson

In 2019, California was the first state to take a swing at explicitly regulating wages-on-demand services. The state senate considered a bill that would provide exemptions to payday lending, money transmission, and financing laws for wages-on-demand...By: Womble Bond Dickinson

At the end of January the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule establishing the newest version of Form I-9 for employment eligibility verification. While two new countries were added to the online version of the form, the only...By: Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced in the Federal Register on January 31, 2020, that the new version of Form I-9 (rev.10/21/2019) would be available for use on January 31, BUT employers can still continue to use the prior...By: Dickinson Wright

Have you ever had any foreign nationals “visit” your company from one of your entities outside the U.S.? Did you help the foreign national visitor fit right in and seem like part of your team and like any other employee?...By: Dickinson Wright

The headline of the article reads, “Cincinnati Reds Call Foul On Law Student's Age Bias Suit.” It seems that a former minor league baseball player, who is now a law student, has sued The Cincinnati Reds LLC in federal district court in North...By: Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C.

Businesses at different levels in the supply chain of a product choose to merge (“vertical mergers,” compared with “horizontal mergers” where businesses at the same level in the supply chain merge) for a variety of reasons, many of which can be...By: Dickinson Wright

On January 9, 2020, the Iowa Court of Appeals released two opinions – Dix v. Casey’s General Stores, Inc. and Woods v. Charles Gabus Ford, Inc. – dealing with Iowa’s private sector drug testing statute. Both cases were considered by the same panel of...By: Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C.

The 2020 appropriations act, which was signed into law by the President on December 20, 2019, contains a mix of good and bad news for employer-sponsored health plans....By: Dickinson Wright

Chris Fairey, General Counsel for American Residential Services, one of the nation’s largest residential and commercial heating, air-conditioning, and plumbing services companies, sits down with Mark to discuss arbitration clauses in employee...By: Womble Bond Dickinson