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Advance planning is crucial when you decide to sell your privately held business. You need to be at the center of that sale planning with the assistance and guidance of your lawyer, your accountant, and your business broker or investment banker....By: Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

In Town of Brookhaven v Golemi, 2019 NY Slip Op 51477(U) [Sup Ct, Suffolk County 2019], the Town of Brookhaven (“Brookhaven”) successfully sought and obtained injunctive relief to remove a structure that violated Brookhaven’s Town Code (“Code”)....By: Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Program Discriminated Against Black Applicants in Its Hiring Process, Federal Agency Charged - JACKSONVILLE - Jacksonville Plumbers and Pipefitters Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust (JPPJATT), which sponsors an apprenticeship program that...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

El 9 de enero de 2020, el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) publicó los nuevos valores para la Unidad de Medida y Actualización (en adelante “UMA”) que entrará en vigor el 1 de febrero de 2020, de acuerdo a lo establecido en el...By: Littler

Gathering clouds – flawed investigation made dismissal unfair - In Sunshine Hotel Ltd t/a Palm Court Hotel v Goddard the EAT agreed that failing to hold an investigatory meeting does not necessarily make a dismissal unfair. However, taken as a...By: Hogan Lovells

Sunday’s release of a long-awaited Labor Department final rule on joint employment spells trouble for workers hoping to “sue large companies for wrongdoing by contractors or franchisees.” The rule reverses Obama-era policies by redefining (and...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 12, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor announced its Final Rule clarifying the issue of joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Final Rule adopts a four-factor balancing test and rejects various factors...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

If you have a great product, but lousy distribution, you’re not going to do well. Yet the same thing is on the flip side if you have great distribution, but a lousy product. Whether it’s a multiple employer plan, a great IRA product, or anything...By: Ary Rosenbaum

On December 31, 2019, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo vetoed the employee wage lien bill (colloquially referred to by its sponsors and supporters as the “Securing Wages Earned Against Theft” or “SWEAT” bill). Both the New York State Senate and Assembly...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The Hong Kong government published the Employment (Amendment) Bill 2019 in the Gazette on December 27, 2019, which implements changes in relation to statutory maternity benefits. The bill was introduced to the Legislative Council on January 8, 2020...By: Dentons