On January 1, 2020, the city of Duluth will join Minneapolis and St. Paul in imposing new sick and safe time leave requirements on employers. Specifically, employers with five or more employees—regardless of where those employees work—must provide...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
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On October 31, 2019, the Trump Administration revoked Executive Order 13495, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts (“EO 13495”), removing the requirement for federal service contractors to offer employment to employees of...By: Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government
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In preparation for a webinar I gave this week with my colleague Chris Engler, I took a deeper dive into the statistics from the annual report released by the CHRO, in a followup to my initial report here. When you look at the numbers in a snapshot,...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP
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Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), applicable large employers are required to offer minimum essential coverage (that is both affordable and meets the minimum value standard) to at least 95 percent of their eligible full-time equivalent employees....By: Bricker & Eckler LLP
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OFCCP posts new guide for construction contractors. Keeping its pledge to provide more technical assistance to federal contractors, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs just issued a new Technical Assistance Guide for construction...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made significant changes to the Immigrant Investor Program (EB-5) through their establishment of new EB-5 modernization regulations. The EB-5 program permits individuals to apply for permanent...By: Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP
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Drinker Biddle’s Corporate and Securities Group recently hosted its 13th annual roundtable discussion, which took place at Gulph Mills Golf Club in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This year’s event sported a new name—“The Leveraged Acquisitions...By: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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If an employee misses work to attend church on Sunday morning and the company subsequently fires her, is that religious discrimination? A jury in Texas recently said yes and awarded the plaintiff close to $350,000. The verdict is a reminder to...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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A cardinal change is a rare event in construction. However, when it "provably" occurs, it can turn the relative rights of the parties to a construction dispute upside down. A recent New York case bears this out. A general contractor on a New York...By: Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP
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My VC Fund has U.S. and non-U.S. General Partners, will I need to file CFIUS declarations for every investment I want to make in tech, in infrastructure, or in a company with customers’ personal data? This is a critical question at the fore of...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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