The CFPB recently settled with an employment background screening company to resolve allegations that the company violated the FCRA. Among other allegations, the complaint asserts that the company......By: Weiner Brodsky Kider PC
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The NLRB reversed the controversial holding in Purple Communications, which allowed employees to use their employer's e-mail system during non-working hours to engage in Section 7 protected discussions regarding wages, hours of work, working...By: Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will accept new H-1B petitions subject to the annual quota for fiscal year 2021 (FY2021) in early 2020 with a new preregistration system being implemented starting March 1, 2020. Overview of the H-1B...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,
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Pest Control and Landscaping Company Terminated and Refused to Rehire Employee With Disability After Denying Her Request for Leave as Accommodation, Federal Agency Charged - CHARLESTON, S.C. - Pest control and landscaping company Massey Services,...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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On December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board modified regulations implemented by the NLRB in 2015 that dramatically accelerated the complex union election process. The 2015 rules were appropriately nicknamed the “quickie” or “ambush”...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
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Do you offer free parking, snacks, coffee, paid leave to first responders, cell phone plans, financial assistance for adoption, loans, buy-back of unused PTO, gym memberships, wellness plans, discounts on retail goods, on-site massage therapy? These...By: Brooks Pierce
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On November 22, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that two separate private equity funds managed by the same general partner/management firm were not liable for the pension fund withdrawal liability of their bankrupt...By: Shearman & Sterling LLP
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In a previous alert, IRS Adopts Final Regulations Changing Hardship Distributions, we analyzed the IRS’s recently issued final hardship distribution regulations....By: Clark Hill PLC
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created a lucrative new tax incentive for certain business owners: the ability to deduct up to 20% of their qualified business income. Thus, a business owner who qualified for the deduction could earn a taxable...By: Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP
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Litigators are familiar with the attorney-client privilege as the focus of many discovery disputes, but transactional lawyers increasingly recognize the privilege as an asset that may or may not be part of the bargain in a corporate transaction. The...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
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