Complying with all the required notices and disclosures to retirement plan participants can be expensive and burdensome. The Department of Labor (DOL) has moved one step closer to making it easier and less expensive for plan sponsors to meet these...By: Poyner Spruill LLP
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All employers should be aware that their use of mandatory employment arbitration agreements is prohibited in California effective January 1, 2020 under recently signed Assembly Bill No. 51 (AB 51). Under current California law, employers may require...By: Farella Braun + Martel LLP
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If you do not like your boss, can you demand your employer provide you with a new one? A federal district court in Montana recently rejected such an accommodation request in a well-reasoned case involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
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The President revoked Executive Order (E.O.) 13495, which required successor contractors to offer service employees employed under the predecessor contract a right of first refusal. The revocation immediately terminates investigations or compliance...By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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Those who believed the Trump administration would scale back the Obama-era Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) aggressive enforcement of wage and hour laws may be surprised to learn that the DOL recently announced that it recovered a record $322 million in...By: Foley & Lardner LLP
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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment in favor of an employer that terminated an employee after he tested positive for methamphetamines, even though he claimed that his drug test was the result of...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division issued a proposed rule on the fluctuating workweek method of pay. The proposal continues a regulatory saga started in 2008, and clarifies that payments in addition to the fixed...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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As the year end is quickly coming, employers are reminded of minimum wage increase and exemption thresholds....By: Hodgson Russ LLP
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The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury (the “Agencies”) recently released final regulations1 that create new opportunities for employers to provide health reimbursement arrangements (“HRAs”) to employees. Beginning January...By: Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
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Every company has faced challenges related to the social media presence of, or use by, prospective and current employees. This includes questions about off-duty conduct that spills over into the workplace, posting about terms and conditions of...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
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