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Many California local ordinances have mid-year minimum wage rate increases effective July 1, 2019. Our prior advisory addressed the increases to the minimum wage rates effective January 1, 2019, under the California state law and local ordinances,...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

The Chicago City Council has passed the Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance, which requires large employers to provide workers with at least two weeks’ advance notice of their work schedules and compensate workers for last-minute changes. Mayor Lori...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

Previously, on a reopener of a permanent partial total disability case that turned into a permanent total disability case, there has always been a credit for the entire amount paid for the partial total award.  This leads to some great results on...By: Chartwell Law

The gift that keeps on giving, the California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court is getting a fresh look to determine whether it applies retroactively. For the uninitiated, the Dynamex decision upended the...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

On July 15, 2019, the EEOC issued the final protocols for enhanced EEO-1 reporting. Most private sector employers with 100 or more employees are now required to report, on or before September 30, 2019, pay and hours data on all employees for 2017...By: Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

When I travel to a stadium or a game, I’m a beer snob and I will walk around to find a beer that isn’t Bud, Coors, or Miller, or even Blue Moon. I always like to use beer as an example when it comes to the retirement plan business because there is a...By: Ary Rosenbaum

As you are aware from these pages, Connecticut’s General Assembly produced a plethora of bills affecting the schools during its 2019 regular session.  As they say in late night TV infomercials, yes, there’s more.  In a brief special session that was...By: Pullman & Comley - School Law

• The Ninth Circuit has withdrawn its May 2, 2019, opinion in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising Int’l, Inc., in which it held that the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision regarding independent contractors and employees applies retroactively. •...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The FTC and the DOJ Antitrust Division have again warned companies, along with their board members and officers, of the legal prohibition on interlocking directorates: when an individual, or an organization’s agent(s), simultaneously serves as an...By: Orrick - Antitrust Watch

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: • FTC orders compliance. Will Facebook comply? (NYT) • Video killed the radio star, did Amazon kill retail? (Trump administration says yes). (Washington Post) • SFO opens corruption investigation for work...By: Thomas Fox