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Boards of Directors and management at companies of all sizes face a common problem: they need to make decisions that are best for the company and in order to do so they need to know the facts — the pleasant and the unpleasant — that confront them....By: Locke Lord LLP

Employers have been receiving letters from the IRS assessing Employer Shared Responsibility Payments -- penalties -- under the Affordable Care Act, usually for the 2015 or 2016 calendar years. We have seen penalty amounts ranging from thousands to...By: Miller & Martin PLLC

Let's get this party started. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced that its web portal is now ready to accept "Component 2" compensation data from employers....By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

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

Should highly compensated paralegals (likely more experienced paralegals) receive overtime pay? The new DOL Wage and Hour Administrator, Cheryl Stanton, says paralegals earning at least $100,000 annually and performing certain duties are “exempt”...By: Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

In 2018, Governor Cuomo signed a State Budget bill that included various provisions addressing sexual harassment in the workplace. Among those provisions was a prohibition on including in any written contract a clause requiring the submission of...By: Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Employers will soon be required to provide paid sick time to employees who perform at least 80 hours of work per year within the City of Dallas. Dallas’s paid sick time ordinance (the “Ordinance”) is set to go into effect for employers with more than...By: Locke Lord LLP

A bill aimed at increasing protections for employer “wage theft” by allowing an employer’s current or former employee, or the New York State Department of Labor (NYSDOL), to place a lien on the employer’s interest in real or personal property for the...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

Alex Acosta’s resignation from the Labor Secretary post signaled a quick blow to a key member of President Trump’s cabinet.  It is too early to determine how this change will affect the DOL as far as policy and personnel. ...By: Orrick - Global Employment Law Group

On schedule, EEOC has opened the portal for filing 2017 and 2018 EEO-1 Component 2 reports. Here’s the catch, however: According to updates on the Component 2 website, the reporting portal is “operational and available for viewing by the public,”...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.