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California has enacted several new housing-related laws this fall, including laws on residential zoning, reducing permitting times and costs, placing limits on local government’s ability to restrict residential construction, rent control, and tenant...By: Weiner Brodsky Kider PC

How long a candidate should get before to think about a job offer? This is a question that many law firms have after they have made an offer to a prospective employee. Let’s say a job offer is made to a lawyer and they want to take a week or a...By: Stange Law Firm, PC

On Friday, December 6 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) announced that it will implement a new pre-registration process for the upcoming H-1B lottery. Employers who want to sponsor an employee or candidate for an H-1B petition...By: Lane Powell PC

They say the only thing in life that is constant is change, and we certainly saw that in 2019. This was a big year for change in employment law as legislators, courts, and regulators, shaped the workplace to reflect societal changes. The changes we...By: Flaster Greenberg PC

In this webinar, Jonathan Landesman and Anthony Bottenfield discuss two timely topics that construction-industry employers must be aware of and provide practical tips for employers for closing out the year without conflict. Jon and Anthony will...By: Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

The IRS recently amended the rules applicable to hardship distributions from 401(k) and 403(b) plans. The new hardship distribution regulation relaxes some of the restrictions on the availability of hardship distributions and simplifies the related...By: Flaster Greenberg PC

With data breaches becoming a common event throughout the world, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has been undertaking a number of initiatives aimed at enhancing its security of taxpayer information and preventing the filing of fraudulent tax...By: Foster Garvey PC

Under the newly adopted Section 203-e of the New York State Labor Law, all businesses with employees in New York state must update their employee handbooks by January 7, 2020, to include a new notice of an employee’s rights and remedies prohibiting...By: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

In May, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019.” If it becomes law, the SECURE Act will bring changes for individuals with retirement accounts. In this webinar, Whitney...By: Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

In Budri v. FirstFleet, Inc., an employee sued his employer and supervisor for a number of causes of action, including a claim for breach of fiduciary duty. No. 3:19-CV-0409-N-BH, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 188251 (N.D. Tex. September 20, 2019)....By: Winstead PC