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Index on Equal Remuneration Between Women and Men - New Order or Decree - Pursuant to Decree No. 2019-382, dated April 29, 2019, each company over 50 employees must calculate the salary gaps between women and men and publish the results on their...By: Littler

Employers must understand what they can and cannot do now that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is once again issuing Social Security “no-match” letters. Employers are more likely to receive such notices than at any time in history. Employers...By: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

The news that President Trump selected Eugene Scalia to take over as Labor Secretary late last week caught some employers by surprise; after all, it was just a week ago that we were analyzing the track record of the soon-to-be-acting Secretary who...By: Fisher Phillips

Court Holds Member States Must Require Employers to Adopt Systems to Record All Employee Working Time - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - On May 14, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that, in order to guarantee...By: Littler

Shelf space payments where mutual funds pay a platform a fee for space on their 401(k) shelf of investments is the newest thing, especially as a way to replace the loss of revenue sharing. One provider, in particular, is under investigation for these...By: Ary Rosenbaum

Amendment to Law Simplifies Terminations of Employment Contracts - New Legislation Enacted - On July 1, 2019, the amendment to Chapter 7, Section 2, Subsection 1 of the Employment Contracts Act (55/2001) comes into force. The amendment makes it...By: Littler

An employee sued her former employer alleging that she was unlawfully terminated under federal law. During the course of her employment, the employee acknowledged on multiple instances that “all employment disputes” with the employer were subject to...By: Burr & Forman

• On June 21, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued and put into effect an Interim Final Rule (Interim Rule) that requires all U.S. persons and persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction (not only...By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Following the Japanese government's recent amendment of the rules under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (the "FEFTA"), foreign investors seeking to invest in companies engaged in certain information and communications technology...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

As discussed in our earlier update, the EEO-1 pay data reporting requirements that were previously stayed by the Trump administration have been revived, and the EEOC has advised employers that the deadline for filing will be September 30, 2019. As...By: Perkins Coie