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Our combined news update provides guidance for companies that utilize independent contractors on what not to do. The first lesson involves a company’s waiver of its best argument for compelling arbitration of an IC misclassification claim....By: Locke Lord LLP

Tax-exempt employers that sponsor or offer Internal Revenue Code Section 403(b) plans (including non-ERISA plans) have until March 31, 2020 to complete the amendment and restatement of those plans....By: Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Labor & Employment- District of Columbia Attorney General Hits Two Employers for $500,000 over Alleged Wage Theft- District of Columbia AG Karl Racine reached a settlement with construction company Rock Spring Contracting, LLC (“Rock Spring”) and...By: Cozen O'Connor

U.S. employers are gearing up for H-1B cap season, which has traditionally commenced on April 1 each year. This year, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has introduced an unprecedented procedure - an electronic preregistration...By: Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

In yesterday’s State of the State, Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed legislation that would require private employers to provide sick leave to their workers. Under his proposal, employers with five to 99 employees would be required to provide at least...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

My favorite law school professor, Bernie Corr once said in hi advanced bankruptcy class that the reason we change the bankruptcy law every few years is to give bankruptcy law some business. If Professor Corr was an ERISA lawyer, he’d probably say the...By: Ary Rosenbaum

National security interventions have largely been confined to defense-related transactions - Since mid-2018, there have been a number of important changes (actual and proposed) to legislation permitting intervention by the UK government in...By: White & Case LLP

Election and Impeachment - The presidential race will garner much of the attention during the 2020 election cycle, but there is fierce competition elsewhere, too. Republicans and Democrats are fighting for both U.S. House of Representatives and...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

This blog is littered with posts talking about the various states that are intent on creating a California-like legal test that would make it supremely challenging to classify workers as independent contractors. We’ve done several on New York alone,...By: Fisher Phillips

• On January 6, 2020, DDTC published a new FAQ on Defense Services Performed by U.S. Persons Abroad, confirming that the ITAR regulate defense services performed by a U.S. person employed by a non-U.S. company outside of the United States. • The FAQ...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP