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If 2018 was a year of elevator music at the National Labor Relations Board, 2019 was symphony of sound.  The Board’s initiatives were varied, high-profile and in the vast majority of cases, the developments were positives for employers.  In a number...By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Welcome to the third edition of our “Public Takeovers in Germany” newsletter. It provides an overviewof public takeovers carried out in Germany in 2019 under the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG) and of recent developments in...By: Hogan Lovells

Over the past week we have seen an increasing number of employers grappling with the real, as opposed to notional, impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19). Many employers have had employees return from affected overseas countries and become unwell. Those...By: McDermott Will & Emery

For construction employers anxious over how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and state plan states are enforcing the Respirable Crystalline Silica in Construction Standard, the last two calendar years of enforcement data...By: Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,

Tell us about your practice in the middle-market private equity space?  I represent private equity funds and their portfolio companies in numerous equity transactions — mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, complex investments (including growth...By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Earlier this week, the NLRB made official a less stringent standard on joint employer liability, returning to a decades old approach which had been applied until the NLRB’s decision in 2015 which made the standard less predictable and more difficult...By: Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB/Board) recently issued a new rule effectively overturning an Obama-era precedent on joint employer status and making it harder to show that two companies are joint employers. In doing so, it lessened – at...By: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

New Jersey continued its march to becoming one of the most employee-friendly jurisdictions in the country upon Governor Phil Murphy signing Senate Bill 3170, amending New Jersey’s mini-WARN statute (the Millville Dallas Airmotive Plant Job Loss...By: Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP

What happens if an employer takes adverse action against an employee based on a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason that later turns out to be wrong? Suppose, for example, an employer fires an employee based on a genuine belief that the employee...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Ready or not, it’s time to electronically register for the upcoming H-1B Cap Lottery. The registration period began at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on Sunday, March 1, 2020 and will end at 12:00 noon Eastern Time on Friday, March 20, 2020. Unlike in...By: Fox Rothschild LLP