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While we hope that COVID-19 (coronavirus) will be contained to a very few isolated cases in the United States, health care employers should be prepared to deal with a number of employment law issues unique to being on the front line of this emerging...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Last Wednesday, the National Labor Relations Board issued final regulations substantially curtailing circumstances under which two employers can be deemed co- or joint employers under federal labor law. The final rule follows years of employer...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Internal Revenue Service has revived Form 1099-NEC to eliminate confusion about complying with new filing deadlines aimed at combatting fraud....By: Morgan Lewis

On 23 October 2019, a new directive of the European Parliament and the Council of the EU on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law (the "Directive") was signed. It requires Member States to adopt laws, among other things, obliging...By: Dentons

The coronavirus can affect employers by implicating many different issues of employment law, from sick leave to disability discrimination. Agenda • Coronavirus and the Current Outbreak • Employment Law Issues: Common Questions • Employee Travel •...By: Proskauer - California Employment Law

On February 18, 2020, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reached the H-2B cap for the second half of fiscal year (FY) 2020. USCIS received significantly more petitions than there were H-2B visas available for the remainder of the...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) doesn’t cover an employee’s leave to care for the healthy children of an ill sibling, according to a new decision from an Ohio federal court....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980 ("MPPAA") amended the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") and the Internal Revenue Code to make "trade[s] or business[es]" that are under "common control"—which has since...By: Jones Day

Government agencies have released several coronavirus guidance documents for employers: • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released general guidance as well as separate guidance for health care employers. • The Occupational Safety and...By: Epstein Becker & Green

Joining the other federal appellate panels to consider the issue, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act (ADAAA) did not alter or erode the understanding that the inability to perform...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP