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Seyfarth Synopsis: The great California patchwork of minimum wage ordinances might have employers feeling full of matatas, but no worries! Seyfarth is here to explain the circle of life of these laws so that even the slowest hyena could follow....By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services have released final rules removing the prohibition on pairing HRAs with individual health policies. The final rules also allow certain HRAs and other account-based group health plans...By: McDermott Will & Emery

CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY - Department of Defense – The DoD Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit of the protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI) on contractor-owned networks and systems. The OIG found that DoD...By: PilieroMazza PLLC

Amendments to the federal laws - - Federal Law No. 150-FZ On Amendments to the - Federal Law On Cadastral Activities and to the - Federal Law On the State Registration of Real Estate of June 17, 2019 Please see full Article below for more...By: Dentons

The UK government has published its response to its proposals to prevent the misuse of nondisclosure agreements and confidentiality clauses in situations of workplace harassment or discrimination. While the UK government has not yet regulated in this...By: Morgan Lewis

2018 M&A Numbers - Following 2017’s market decline, overall M&A volume trended in a positive direction in 2018. While the almost 20,000 transactions closed globally in 2018 did represent a 15 percent drop from the previous year, a record median deal...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

New York recently became the second state, after California, to prohibit discrimination based on hairstyle. On July 12, 2019, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that amends the state’s civil rights law to make it clear that its ban on racial...By: Foley & Lardner LLP

Interstate truck drivers are generally exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. However, this statutory exemption does not apply to minimum wage obligations, and employers are therefore required to track hours worked by...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Medical Device Manufacturer Fired Temporary Employee for Absences Related to Disability, Federal Agency Charges - Greenwood, S.C. - Medtronic, Inc., a Minneapolis-based company that develops and manufactures medical devices, violated federal law...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The New York State Legislature has passed a bill that, if signed into law, would allow current and former employees to obtain a lien against an employer’s real or personal property based merely on an allegation of underpayment of wages. Such an...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP