Legal News

On Friday, December 13, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) announced its plan (the New Rule) to implement significant changes to the expedited election rules adopted in 2014. Continuing in its efforts to scale back Obama-era...By: FordHarrison

Red faces – no gross misconduct when employee revealed executive's pay - The EAT had to consider whether an employee had acted in breach of contract or committed gross misconduct when he revealed details of an executive's pay to colleagues. Jagex...By: Hogan Lovells

Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that an H-1B cap registration system (from which the annual H-1B lottery will be run) will be implemented for the upcoming fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap season. The initial H-1B cap...By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Employers can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Late last week, the National Labor Relations Board (Board) announced finalized union election rules, which will ease some of the quickie election procedures implemented by the Board in 2014....By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

A federal appeals court just ruled that workers don’t need to clear a heightened legal standard in order to pursue pay equity claims, setting the stage for a possible increase in the number of lawsuits seeking recovery for alleged unfair wages in...By: Fisher Phillips

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS or the committee), a U.S. government interagency committee that conducts national security reviews of foreign investments, has released its annual report for 2016 and 2017. Although the...By: Hogan Lovells

On January 1, 2020, California’s new worker classification law known as Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), goes into effect. AB 5 codifies the three-factor “ABC” test adopted by the California Supreme Court in its 2018 Dynamex decision....By: Proskauer - California Employment Law

It's the end of the year and while everyone is busy, employers in California should be aware of new laws and regulations that go into effect on January 1, 2020. In the spirit of the season, we are using the "12 days of the holidays" to blog daily...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Amazon is a mover and shaker in e-commerce and they have a pretty large 401(k) plan now. As of the end of 2018, their 401(k) plan has almost $6 billion in assets.......By: Ary Rosenbaum

On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) finalized a new rule that lets employers leave several perks, including tuition benefits, paid leave cash-outs, and some bonuses, out of the formula used to calculate employees’ overtime pay....By: Snell & Wilmer