Legal News

The US Department of Labor has established a traditional control standard for determining joint employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act....By: Morgan Lewis

Royal Mail has successfully persuaded the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal to uphold an injunction halting plans for a Christmas strike by postal service workers due to alleged breaches of the procedural requirements for strike ballots. This landmark...By: Morgan Lewis

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently signed legislation under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination expanding the definition of “race” to cover “traits historically associated with race,” including hair texture, hair type, and hairstyle. The...By: Morgan Lewis

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations on December 20, 2019, under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), which implement the amendments to Section 162(m) set forth by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the 2017...By: Morgan Lewis

The recently enacted Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act) makes significant changes to individual retirement accounts and individual retirement annuities (IRAs). These important changes generally start in...By: Morgan Lewis

Welcome to the 22nd edition of our newsletter on developments in the automotive industry published by Morgan Lewis’s automotive & mobility team with contributions from lawyers in our offices around the globe. We counsel our automotive clients on a...By: Morgan Lewis

Sponsors of single-employer defined benefit (DB) pension plans could be subject to higher-than-usual minimum funding contribution requirements over the next several years, for at least two reasons. First, the interest rates that many plan sponsors...By: Morgan Lewis - ML Benefits

For more than seven years now, policymakers and taxpayers have clamored for Congress to change the law to permit “open” multiple employer plans (MEPs) – that is, retirement plans that are adopted by multiple unrelated employers (including employers...By: Morgan Lewis

The SECURE Act—the most impactful retirement plan legislation since the Pension Protection Act of 2006—was included in the bipartisan spending bill signed by US President Donald Trump on December 20, 2019. The SECURE Act will advance the goals of...By: Morgan Lewis

In the January 2020 visa bulletin issued by the US Department of State, EB-2 worldwide employment-based classifications, excluding China and India, remain available and current. EB-1 cutoff dates for all countries, except India and China, saw modest...By: Morgan Lewis