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In May 2019, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2019-20, which provides for a limited expansion of the determination letter program for certain individually-designed plans. Under this expansion, the IRS will accept determination letter applications for...By: King & Spalding

 On July 26, 2019, the National Mediation Board (NMB) announced that it is amending its regulations to provide a straightforward procedure for the decertification of labor unions....By: FordHarrison

Seyfarth Synopsis: In 20/20 Communications, Inc. v. Crawford, the Fifth Circuit joined eight other circuits in holding that the availability of class arbitration is a “gateway” issue for courts, not arbitrators, to decide—unless there is “clear and...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

On July 22, 2019, the Ninth Circuit withdrew its recent decision applying the landmark employee/independent contractor classification case, Dynamex, retroactively and indicated that it will be certifying the question to the California Supreme Court....By: FordHarrison

On July 11, 2018, New York State enacted a sweeping new law aimed at combatting sexual harassment in the employment context.  A year later, on July 22, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the law’s...By: Polsinelli

Le télétravail est aujourd’hui plébiscité par une majorité considérable de ses utilisateurs. Salariés bénéficiaires, managers encadrants et chefs d’entreprises y sont en effet favorables à plus de 80%[1]. Source d’équilibre personnel entre vie...By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Drug giants Pfizer and Mylan have inked a deal that will merge the former’s off-patent drugs with the latter’s generics business, a tie-up that creates a mammoth global seller of lower-priced medicines....By: Robins Kaplan LLP

In 2018, Elizabeth Rowe, principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), filed a lawsuit against the orchestra under Massachusetts’ equal pay law. Although Rowe was the only principal flutist, she claimed the BSO violated the equal pay law...By: Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Homeowners associations ("HOAs") do not typically act as construction owners. HOAs are set up as entities to maintain and manage planned unit communities. The most important and common role of the HOA is to maintain the common elements of the...By: Ward and Smith, P.A.

For nearly five years, major U.S. corporations have been subject to intense scrutiny over their decisions on whether to release internal pay gap percentages in response to shareholder proposals by Arjuna Capital, LLC and other activist shareholder...By: Orrick - Equal Pay Pulse