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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, bringing you up to spee?d on the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of occupational pensions. Please see full publication below for more information....By: Allen & Overy LLP

On July 25, 2019, New Jersey Lt. Governor Sheila Oliver signed a bill prohibiting employers from asking job applicants their previous salary history....By: Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: 1. In a provocative piece the NYT Dealbook explores a new approach to corporate governance. (NYT) 2. As a middle manager do you need stage presence? (FT) 3. Deutsche Banks even fouls about employee...By: Thomas Fox

Federal law nowadays certainly favors enforcement of agreements to arbitrate. But generally applicable state contract law determines contract formation – i.e., whether such an agreement has been made. Contract formation generally requires three...By: Mintz - Arbitration, Mediation, ADR

With a recent uptick in mergers and transactions, we thought it would be worthwhile to provide a refresher on some coverage testing issues related to retirement plans. Although a seemingly mundane topic, coverage testing should be kept in mind in...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

As we collect the legal developments that every employer will need to know for 2020, we wanted to provide a recap of the most important employment law changes that took place for 2019.  In Part I of this article we examined key federal and state...By: Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

On July 25, 2019, active Governor Sheila Oliver signed a law that bans employers from asking job applicants about their salary history. (A similar law was vetoed by former Governor Chris Christie in 2017.) New Jersey joins a growing number of states...By: Norris McLaughlin, P.A.

In Far East Square Pte Ltd v Yau Lee Construction (Singapore) Pte Ltd [2019] SGCA 36 (Far East v Yau Lee), the Singapore Court of Appeal recently dealt with important issues surrounding the scheme of the Building and Construction Industry Security of...By: Dentons

Employers continuously face a key employee or consultant leaving or separating from the company to join or start a competing business. In these inevitable scenarios, the loss – potential or actual – of the company's proprietary information and...By: Holland & Knight LLP

The Chicago City Council approved the “Chicago Fair Workweek Ordinance” on July 24, 2019.  The Ordinance goes into effect on July 1, 2020. The Ordinance will require employers covered by the Ordinance to provide advanced notice of work schedules to...By: Littler