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Pursuant to city ordinances effective August 1, 2019, many private employers in San Antonio and Dallas must provide their employees up to 8 days of paid sick leave per year. The Texas Legislature recently ended its session without passing a proposed...By: Locke Lord LLP

On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (the DOL) issued a proposal to increase the salary threshold for employees to be classified as exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (the FLSA) pursuant to the...By: Locke Lord LLP

For businesses with 100 or more employees, now is a good time to begin reviewing internal systems and coordinating with vendors to collect employee pay information to submit to the EEOC....By: Locke Lord LLP

Boards of Directors and management at companies of all sizes face a common problem: they need to make decisions that are best for the company and in order to do so they need to know the facts — the pleasant and the unpleasant — that confront them....By: Locke Lord LLP

Employers will soon be required to provide paid sick time to employees who perform at least 80 hours of work per year within the City of Dallas. Dallas’s paid sick time ordinance (the “Ordinance”) is set to go into effect for employers with more than...By: Locke Lord LLP

A common provision in merger agreements is denial of the right of non-parties to the agreement to assert third-party beneficiary claims. The use of this provision left open the question whether stockholders of a disappearing target company could...By: Locke Lord LLP

Marijuana-related employment lawsuits are on the rise as more workers who have been fired or denied a job over their marijuana use are utilizing litigation to challenge the decisions. This, in turn, is forcing employers to formulate new strategies to...By: Locke Lord LLP

On July 9, the New Jersey Misclassification Task Force issued its first Report. The Task Force was created by an Executive Order issued by Governor Phil Murphy on May 3, 2018 and includes representatives from the Labor, Treasury, and Law Departments...By: Locke Lord LLP

This past month was relatively uneventful in the area of independent contractor misclassification and compliance news, if one regards a $16.5 million settlement as unremarkable. But the amount of the settlements in IC misclassification cases appears...By: Locke Lord LLP

The publisher of this legal blog and Matthew Kane, the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Z Capital Group, LLC, wrote an article as guest authors for Private Equity Law Report entitled “How to Evaluate Portfolio Companies for Independent...By: Locke Lord LLP