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Participants and beneficiaries are sometimes slow to cash qualified retirement plan distribution checks, especially when the checks are relatively small.  This may result in the check being cashed in a year after the year the check was received. ...By: Stinson - Benefits Notes Blog

On two fronts, the Human Resources department has an increasingly important role in the privacy and security of an organization’s data. On the one hand, HR collects, uses, retains, stores, and disposes of personal information related to the...By: Locke Lord LLP

On August 5, 2019, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) published proposed revisions to the Wage and Hour Division’s Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) forms with the stated goal “to increase compliance with the FMLA, improve customer service, and...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

OFCCP proposes to broaden protection of religious exercise. Citing the need to clarify the scope and application of the religious exemption for federal contractors, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a proposed regulatory...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

As scheduled, EEOC and NORC have now provided employers with a way batch upload their EEO-1 Component 2 pay data. Instructions and details are provided on the More Info Page on the NORC EEO-1 Component 2 website....By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The City of Dallas recently enacted a paid sick leave (PSL) ordinance requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to eligible employees and to abide by specific accrual, use, pay, and recordkeeping obligations. Now, the City is being forced to...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Employers have paid about $7 billion in H-1B fees over the past 10 years. Now, a new fee is coming – the electronic registration fee. Electronic pre-registration for the H-1B lottery is set to begin for the 2020 cap season. The government’s idea is...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The National Labor Relations Board recently invalidated an arbitration agreement that would require employees to arbitrate all “all claims or controversies” with their employer, holding that such a provision would unlawfully restrict employees’...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

We are back with another five episodes of Adventures in Compliance to consider the next five stories from The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, mining each story for themes and lessons related to the compliance professional, leadership and business...By: Thomas Fox

In this episode I visit with Matt Galvin, Vice President, Ethics & Compliance at Anheuser-Busch InBev and Peter Grossman, Co-Founder, Chief Strategist at Labyrinth Training about their work on compliance training to influence behavior at Ab-InBev....By: Thomas Fox