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Effective January 1, 2020, the minimum wage in Ohio will be $8.70 per hour for non-tipped employees at businesses with gross annual receipts of more than $319,000 per year, an increase from the current threshold of $314,000. For tipped employees, the...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Johnson & Johnson doled out $20 million to two Ohio counties rather than go through with its first federal opioid-related trial. The money is rather small potatoes for J&J, but it marks the “first time . . . the world’s largest maker of healthcare...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: The Columbia, South Carolina Mayor Steve Benjamin has signed a new law prohibiting employers – including private employers – from inquiring about an applicant’s criminal history until receipt of a conditional offer of employment...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Taxpayers typically incur significant transaction costs when undergoing a transaction involving a restructuring, acquisition, disposition, sale of assets, or sale of stock. The default rule under section 263 is that all transaction costs that...By: Pepper Hamilton LLP

In Logan v. MGM Grand Detroit Casino, released September 25, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which hears appeals from the federal district courts of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, held that employers cannot...By: Bricker & Eckler LLP

Effective September 29, 2019, Illinois has amended the Illinois Equal Pay Act of 2003 to prohibit employers from inquiring about an applicant’s current or prior salary, wages, benefits, or other compensation and using this salary history to make...By: Thompson Coburn LLP

Caesar’s Entertainment Corporation operated four casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Each casino was covered by a collective bargaining agreement for engineering work that required contributions to IUOE Local 68 Pension Fund. In 2014, Caesar’s...By: Hodgson Russ LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: In a refreshing display of judicial restraint, the California Court of Appeal has declined to extend California’s “wrongful termination” law to a failure to hire, because in the absence of a preexisting employment relationship an...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

There were several notable court and administrative cases over the past two months, but they were overshadowed by a legislative matter: the enactment of Assembly Bill 5 in California, which was the subject of our September 11, 2019 blog post entitled...By: Locke Lord LLP

On August 6, 2019, the New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Linda A. Lacewell announced that the DFS will lead a multistate investigation into the payroll advance industry and allegations of unlawful online lending. The...By: Hudson Cook, LLP