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Although the construction industry was generally exempted from Governor Jim Justice’s March 23, 2020 Order directing all non-essential businesses to temporarily close due to COVID-19, the pandemic will nevertheless have a significant effect on the...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

On April 22, 2020 Governor Tom Wolf announced that all businesses in the construction industry will be permitted to resume in-person operations starting May 1, 2020. Resumption of projects requires observance of certain Guidance that the Wolf...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its annual adjustment for notification thresholds for proposed mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”). HSR Act Threshold Increases: •...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Earlier this week, the NLRB made official a less stringent standard on joint employer liability, returning to a decades old approach which had been applied until the NLRB’s decision in 2015 which made the standard less predictable and more difficult...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

President Trump and the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued proposed regulations on January 10, 2020 to modify the regulatory program for the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), that requires federal agencies consider...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

In its first major overhaul of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) joint employer standard since the 1950s, the Department of Labor has brought some clarity to the definition of this relationship after decades of varying interpretations and...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

On January 7, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor published three new opinion letters – two that address compliance under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and one that addresses compliance under the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) – that...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

On December 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board issued two decisions that reversed troubling precedents and restored rights to employers. First, the NLRB reiterated that employers have a right to control the use of their equipment,...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

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

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in United Financial Casualty Company v. Ball vacated a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The Court held that the district court had improperly found that a Worker’s...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC