Legal News

Action is currently underway to amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) to provide employers an additional year to comply with the CCPA with respect to employee data of California-based employees. The California Senate Judiciary Committee...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Following Hutton v Wilson, Part 8 challenges to adjudication have become less common. However, in Willow v MTD, the TCC has made a declaration setting aside part of an adjudicator’s decision where the adjudicator erred in his construction of a...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

From April 2020 the responsibility for determining whether engagements with individuals who provide their services through an intermediary (typically a “PSC”) are within the off-payroll working rules shifts to the client for engagements in the...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

In 2018, in response to the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, New York State enacted laws to provide stronger protections against workplace sexual harassment, including mandating that New York employers have a complaint and investigation process and a...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Perhaps this is an indication of the way things are going to be after Brexit. The Governments of Germany, France and Poland have recently published a document calling for a radical review of the EU merger rules to allow a stronger emphasis on...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

In September 2018, California passed SB 1343, which expanded the sexual harassment training requirements for California employers.  Previously, employers with 50 or more employees were required to provide at least two hours of sexual harassment...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

The idiom “all duck or no dinner“, if you’re not familiar with it, means “all or nothing“. I once worked for a partner that was quite fond of using it, particularly in the context of limitation periods and time bars: if you’re in time, your clients...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Further liberalisation of the Myanmar banking and financial services sector The Central Bank of Myanmar (“CBM”) is making significant strides towards opening up Myanmar’s banking and finance sector.  In the past few months, it has taken steps towards...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Welcome to the latest edition of our Myanmar update for 2019. We have distilled the top news items into this summary 'speed read'. Further liberalisation of the Myanmar banking and financial services sector - The Central Bank of Myanmar (“CBM”) is...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

The types of accommodations needed for nursing mothers is governed by state and municipal law, and, therefore, depends on where a company and its offices are based. New York provides a good example of the types of accommodations required under some...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner