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One hotly debated aspect of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) has been the so-called “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost health benefits, currently slated to take effect in 2022.  The Cadillac Tax is a 40% excise tax on the amount of employer-sponsored health...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

When seeking to enforce a restrictive covenant, whether a noncompete or a nonsolicit, the standard play-book calls for an aggrieved party to file suit and seek a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to preclude the defendant from...By: Burns & Levinson LLP

As we have previously reported, the IRS has made significant changes in the past few years to the way retirement plan sponsors ensure their documents comply with the Code. In 2017, the IRS confirmed that it would not issue determination letters for...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Effective November 18, 2019, amendments to the New York State Human Rights Law will provide enhanced protections to employees who are victims of domestic violence. In particular, unless an employee’s absence would create an “undue hardship,” New York...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

What does it feel like winning the lottery? I don’t know but it has to feel a lot like getting picked for jury duty. (Wait, am I the only one to get excited at the prospect of jury duty? )...By: Shipman & Goodwin LLP

In the wake of its Boeing decision, the National Labor Relations Board continues to analyze various employee handbook and other policies to determine if they interfere with Section 7 employee concerted activity rights. On October 10, the board...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: California’s ban-the-box law strictly regulates how employers may obtain and consider background check information when hiring and making personnel decisions. What’s more, Los Angeles and San Francisco have their own ban-the-box...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: In an EEOC disability discrimination lawsuit alleging that an employer failed to accommodate and then wrongfully terminated a laundry technician with anxiety, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted the...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

PepsiCo, Inc. (Pepsi) is the sponsor of a defined benefit pension plan. Like several other prominent sponsors of defined benefit pension plans, Pepsi was named as a plaintiff in an actuarial equivalence lawsuit that alleged problems with the...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Uh, no, says judge. Last week, I posted that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to declare its EEO-1 "Category 2" pay data collection efforts to be complete....By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP