Legal News

In an effort to update UK discrimination law, the Women and Equalities Committee of the UK Parliament (the Committee) has published its report following a yearlong inquiry into the legal aspects of enforcement across all protected characteristics and...By: Morgan Lewis

This month, New Jersey has expanded the state’s medical marijuana law and limited employers’ ability to inquire about job applicants’ salary history. Employers should review these new laws and ensure compliance, including reviewing their drug...By: Morgan Lewis

The UK government has published its response to its proposals to prevent the misuse of nondisclosure agreements and confidentiality clauses in situations of workplace harassment or discrimination. While the UK government has not yet regulated in this...By: Morgan Lewis

Private companies grant stock options to their employees as a way to retain and motivate them and to reward their employees for the company’s success. Included below are five common mistakes we have come across....By: Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

Directors and officers of private companies are responsible for managing and running business. This responsibility is not limited to disciplinary liability (such as termination of employment), but also involves civil law liability (such as payment of...By: Morgan Lewis

The UK hydraulic fracturing industry has been in the spotlight recently as operators push for higher seismic limits in using the technique to produce shale gas....By: Morgan Lewis

In the August 2019 visa bulletin issued by the US Department of State, all employment-based classifications are backlogged. The US Department of State has released its August 2019 Visa Bulletin outlining per-country priority date cutoffs that...By: Morgan Lewis

The UK government has recently published draft legislation that, from April 2020, will require many private sector businesses engaging self-employed contractors through intermediary service companies to consider whether payments made to such service...By: Morgan Lewis

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has primary jurisdiction over the qualified status of retirement plans, and this jurisdiction includes examining plans. At any point an IRS agent may contact a plan sponsor that its plan has been selected for audit....By: Morgan Lewis

Following the launch of an enquiry in November 2018 examining the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) where allegations of harassment or discrimination have been made by an employee, the UK Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee (Committee)...By: Morgan Lewis