Legal News

On January 13, 2020, the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB or Board) issued an en banc affirmation of its July 31, 2018 Opinion and Decision After Reconsideration and gave the California Administrative Director of the Division of Workers’...By: Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

A highly anticipated decision granting a preliminary injunction preventing California from applying its new independent contractor test to motor carriers was issued by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez on January 12. While the ruling was...By: McCarter & English, LLP

In 2015, Congress passed a law called the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. It appears that the word “Improvements” may have been added in an unsuccessful attempt to make the law sound more palatable. Because...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

One of the spending bills signed by President Trump to avert a government shutdown late last year had attached to it the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019, or as it’s known by its acronym, the SECURE Act....By: Blank Rome LLP

The Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 and the Family Medical Leave Act work together to protect employees with disabilities. But what happens when your highly specialized professor goes on leave halfway through the semester? How do you...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Happy 2020! Welcome to the first edition of Policy Matters in this Presidential election year! Understandably, most of the Capitol’s attention has been focused on impeachment proceedings (or the lack thereof) and the conflict with Iran, but labor and...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The USDOL is busy again issuing Opinion Letters and has again turned its focus to the issue of inclusion/exclusion of bonuses into the regular rate for purposes of overtime computation. These Letters are not binding on courts but they operate to...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), issued a final set of regulations (“Real Estate Final Regulations”) to expand its jurisdiction to...By: Dechert LLP

On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department, as chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”), finalized two sets of regulations to implement the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act...By: Dechert LLP

On December 20, 2019, President Trump signed into law landmark legislation titled “Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement” Act (“SECURE Act”). While the SECURE Act is intended to simplify the retirement system and allow individuals to...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP