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Last year, the Iowa legislature made significant changes to Iowa Code Chapter 20, the Public Employment Relations Act. The most significant is the scope of bargaining for certain public sector employees....By: Davis Brown Law Firm

Egregious Abuse Forced Female Employees to Resign, Federal Agency Charges - KINGSTON, N.Y. - Birchez Associates, LLC and Rondout Properties Management, LLC, Kingston, N.Y.-based housing development and property management companies, violated federal...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The National Labor Relations Board has reminded employers that they must tolerate a certain degree of heated discourse during a union organizing campaign before discipline or termination may be warranted. On June 27, 2019, the Board, in Pacific...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

A bill to prevent any federal funding for the 2026 men’s World Cup until the U.S. Soccer Federation agrees to provide equal pay to the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams was introduced by Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on July 9, 2019. Manchin’s...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

On July 10, 2019, the Governor of New York State signed into law a bill extending New York’s pay equity protections to pay differentials based not only on gender, but also those caused by discrimination on the basis of age, race, sexual orientation,...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

New York’s equal pay law prohibiting wage differentials based on protected class status was signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on July 10, 2019. The new equal pay law will be effective on October 8, 2019. The Governor also signed into law a bar on...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

Showing once again its willingness to break new ground in enacting employee protections, California will soon ban discrimination based on certain hairstyles. Senate Bill 188, signed by Governor Newsom on July 3, 2019, expands the definition of “race”...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Since the Delaware Supreme Court’s 2015 Corwin v. KKR Financial Holdings decision, practitioners in merger transactions have been able to advise clients that a transaction otherwise subject to enhanced scrutiny could be subject to business judgment...By: Morris James LLP

New Governor, New General Assembly, Democratic Trifecta - The 2019 legislative session began with the inauguration of a new governor and the members of the 101st General Assembly. With a large number of retirements and turnover in the 2018...By: McGuireWoods Consulting

I’ve been an ERISA attorney for over 20 years and the one opinion I’ve had for that long is that having a payroll provider to serve as a 401(k) third-party administrator (TPA) is an absolutely bad idea. I say this as an ERISA attorney who derives a...By: Ary Rosenbaum